Dataminr Security Glossary
Understand essential terms and concepts in corporate security, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI). This glossary is designed to provide clear, authoritative insights of a wide range of relevant topics, empowering you to navigate the complexities of today’s security challenges with confidence and precision.
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Corporate security is the strategic policies, measures, processes, protocols, and technologies implemented by private sector organizations to protect people, assets, and operations. When taking a holistic approach, a number of teams can be involved in the risk management activities designed to identify, avoid, mitigate, and respond to a broad range of internal and external events, threats, and risks.
Cyber-Physical Security (CPS) defends integrated systems that control physical processes using digital components (Cyber-Physical Systems). Unlike traditional IT security, CPS protects real-world safety and operational continuity, making it vital for critical infrastructure (e.g., power grids, utilities, transportation).
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Executive protection encompasses the specialized security measures, protocols, and advanced planning dedicated to ensuring the safety of high-profile individuals, such as C-suite executives, board members, celebrities, athletes, and government officials. This discipline focuses on mitigating specific targeted risks—ranging from physical attacks and harassment to kidnapping and privacy breaches—that target individuals due to their status, wealth, or influence.
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Force protection consists of the preventive measures taken to mitigate hostile actions against military personnel, resources, facilities, and critical information. It is an operational necessity applied in all environments—from home stations to combat zones—to ensure the force remains safe, capable, and ready to execute its mission.
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Real-Time AI processes, analyzes, and responds to incoming data with minimal latency, often in milliseconds. Unlike traditional batch processing, real-time AI is engineered for immediate action, powered by high-speed data streams and optimized infrastructure for continuous, instantaneous application of insights. Its core value is enabling instantaneous, high-stakes decisions and personalization at scale.
Risk Intelligence is the practice of systematically collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing data from across an organization and its external environment to provide a comprehensive, real-time understanding of potential threats and vulnerabilities.
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Threat Detection and Response (TDR) is the discipline of continuously identifying, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats across the attack lifecycle. Modern TDR combines analytics, threat intelligence, automation, and response workflows to reduce exposure time and prevent business-impacting incidents.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management is a proactive security approach that shifts organizations from reactive remediation to continuous exposure reduction. Rather than treating vulnerabilities, identities, and misconfigurations as isolated issues, CTEM unifies them into a single, risk-based view of what adversaries can actually exploit.
Travel risk management (TRM) is a comprehensive program organizations use to ensure the safety, security, and well-being of employees traveling for business. It goes beyond simple travel planning and logistics to encompass a continuous cycle of preparing, monitoring, and supporting travelers against a wide array of potential risks—from medical emergencies and transport accidents to geopolitical instability and natural disasters.
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Vulnerability prioritization is the systematic process of ranking security vulnerabilities based on multiple risk factors (including severity, exploitability, business impact, asset criticality, and threat intelligence) to determine which should be remediated first. Rather than fixing every vulnerability or relying solely on CVSS scores, this risk-based approach enables security teams to focus limited resources on addressing the weaknesses that pose the greatest actual risk to the organization, ensuring remediation efforts align with business priorities and deliver the most significant risk reduction.