GLOSSARY Critical Information Infrastructure (s) (CII). The essential information infrastructures considered strategic that are related to the provision of goods and essential public services and whose disturbance could compromise National Security in terms of the applicable law. . Cyber Attack. Action carried out through the telecommunications networks with the aim of damaging the Critical Information Infrastructures, the Essential Information Infrastructures and the safety of people. Cyber Defense. Set of actions, resources and mechanisms of the State in matters of national security to prevent, identify and neutralize any cyber threat or cyber-attack that affects the national critical infrastructure. Cyber Threat. Potential risk related to the vulnerabilities of computer systems and physical and passive infrastructure of public telecommunications networks that might allow damaging processes and/or the continuity of Critical Information Infrastructures, Essential Information Infrastructures, as well as the safety of people. Cybercrimes. Criminal actions that use Information and Communication Technologies as a means or as an end and that are classified by a criminal code or other national code. Cybersecurity. Set of policies, controls, procedures, risk management methods and standards associated with the protection of society, government, economy and national security in cyberspace and public telecommunication networks. Cyberspace. It is a global digital environment comprising computer and telecommunications networks, where people communicate and interact; it allows the exercise of their rights and freedoms as would happen in the tangible l world. Essential Information Infrastructure (s) (IIE, in Spanish). The networks, services, equipment and facilities associated with or connected to Information Assets, Information Communications and Technologies (ICT) and Operational Technologies (OT), the disturbance, interruption or destruction of which would have a major impact on the operation of the institutions.