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ostrichism - Self-delusion, a refusal to cope with something, such as a threatâfiguratively hiding one's head in the sand, as the animal is mistakenly thought to do. threat - A word for a throng or crowd of people. Threat a crowd; a multitude of people; a group of men in an attacking mood. See also throng. threat Past participle: threated
1. Risk: (1) Indication of an approaching or imminent menace. (2) Negative event that can cause a risk to become a loss, expressed as an aggregate of risk, consequences of risk, and the likelihood of the occurrence of the event. A threat may be a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake, flood, storm, or a man made incident such as fire, power failure, sabotage, etc. 2. Computer security: Action or potential occurrence (whether or not malicious) to breach the security of the system by exploiting its known or unknown vulnerabilities.