Security
Also called social safety or public safety, security is the risk of harm due to intentional criminal acts such as assault, burglary or vandalism.
Because of the moral issues involved, security is of higher importance to many people than substantive safety. For example, a death due to murder is considered worse than a death in a car crash, even though in many countries, traffic deaths are more common than homicides.
Read more about this topic: Saftey, Types of Safety
Other articles related to "security":
... The Transportation Security Administration has provided security at most major airports since 2001 ... of transportation, except for customs, immigration, and security, which are the responsibility of the United States Department of Homeland Security ... Guard is the primary enforcer of law and security on US waterways ...
... One approach to computer security is to consider security as one of the base features ... Audit trails tracking system activity, so that when a security breach occurs, the mechanism and extent of the breach can be determined ...
... Computer security is information security as applied to computers and networks. ...
... XPages applications and the document oriented database can be secured in multiple ways ... There is a so called ACL (access control list) which contains a list of users, groups and roles and their access rights ...
... Áras an Uachtaráin is protected by armed guards at all times and is encircled by security fencing ... At all times the President travels with an armed security detail which is provided by the SDU (Special Detective Unit - an elite wing of the Irish police force) ...
Famous quotes containing the word security:
“I feel a sincere wish indeed to see our government brought back to it’s republican principles, to see that kind of government firmly fixed, to which my whole life has been devoted. I hope we shall now see it so established, as that when I retire, it may be under full security that we are to continue free and happy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
—U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment.
“Thanks to recent trends in the theory of knowledge, history is now better aware of its own worth and unassailability than it formerly was. It is precisely in its inexact character, in the fact that it can never be normative and does not have to be, that its security lies.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)