Revisiting Cyber Definition

We often use the term cyber in many recent conversations and statements, as well as various official documents, but understanding the meaning still leaves a question mark. The term cyber has remains in various perspectives spanning from definition and domain. While the meaning can be easily grasp which associates to computers or computer networks (such as the Internet), there is currently no consensus on this definition. Up to recent, we found that there are several diverge understanding on this jargon, such as on the semantic discussion (adjective vs noun), and domain (such as the confusion that tangling information security and cyber security). The Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) collects various definitions that show this jargon, although prevalence in many national and international statements is interpreted differently. From those definitions, the term cyber can be cascaded to five areas: 1)Physical infrastructure; 2) Communication: 3) System, 4) Devices and 5) Virtual environment. In this article, we will revisit the term cyber taken from nations/states, different organisation, and scholars interpret and picture the term cyber. This article aims to abridge definitions of cyber from several perspectives. In going revisiting the cyber definition, we walk through from several contexts to abridge the definition of cyber. We start by walking from discussing the diverse perspective of the word cyber, not only the adjective vs the noun that is widely used, but also the confusion to other domains, such as information security vs cyber security. This will be covered in the Section 1. In the Section 2, we will revisit the term by seeing this jargon from some perspectives: linguistic genealogy, context of cyber world, and we use of this word in today context, which we will find vary. In the Section 3, we will coincide different pictures and interpretations to cyber into a single frame of definition. To conclude, we propose the abridge definition of cyber from overall context.