These are the specific characteristics that set your term apart from other terms within that category. In essence, you are relating the term to its broader category so that your audience says “yeah, I know what those are”.ĭifferentiating Characteristics (differentia)
This defines the category or class your concept fits into. Although the team in this definition should be comprised of individuals who possess the capability to respond to security incidents, the definition fails by mistaking a group for a capability.Īll of the reading we’ve done, all of the research we’ve done, except for Purdue’s Online Writing Lab example 13 (which states you need to always start with the term, which we will ignore), breaks a definition down (roughly) into two parts, as shown below:Ĭategory of concept + differentiating characteristics However, the presented definition egregiously leaves out the entire essence of team and replaces it with capability. This term, absent of the definition, and because it describes a team, brings to mind a group of people who respond to computer security incidents. For example, a technical glossary from the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology, their Glossary of key Information Security Terms, defines the term Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) as - a capability set up for the purpose of assisting in responding to computer security-related incidents. In our research we come across a great deal of bad definitions, many of which are found in published glossaries. So to start this off, let’s look at an example of a bad definition, one that just doesn’t fit the essence of the term it is supposed to describe.
And even if you wanted to we’d rather you just stare blankly at your iPhone. Well, that’s nice, but it isn’t that helpful unless you are a philosophy major who can spout out what essence means as part of dinner conversation. Good ol' Aristotle spouting off philosophy
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