Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes [No. 2 of 2021 “critical information” means information that is declared by the Minister to be critical for the purposes of national security or the economic and social wellbeing of the Republic; “critical information infrastructure” means the cyber infrastructure that is essential to vital services for public safety, economic stability, national security, international stability and for the sustainability and restoration of critical cyberspace; “cyber” means the— (a) computer simulated environment; or (b) state of connection or association with electronic communications systems or networks including the internet; “cyber crime” means a crime committed in, by or with the assistance of the simulated environment or state of connection or association with electronic communications or networks including the internet; “cyber ecosystem” means the interconnected information infrastructure of interactions among persons, processes, data, and information and communication technologies, along with the environment and the conditions that influence those interactions; “cyber inspector” means a person appointed as cyber inspector under section 8; “cyber security” means tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurances and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment, organisation and user assets; “cyber security incident” means an act or activity on or through a computer or computer system, that jeopardises or adversely impacts, without lawful authority, the security, availability or integrity of a computer or computer system, or the availability, confidentiality or integrity of information stored on, processed by, or transiting a computer or computer system; “damage” means the impairment to the intergrity or availability of data, a program, a system or information; “device” includes— (a) components of computer systems such as graphic cards, memory chips and processors; (b) storage components such as hard drives, memory cards, compact discs and tapes; 45