Naming and nuances

Protection or Security

Verbal/word nuances are context specific. 

We need to be careful when we use certain words, especially when we talk to or try to convey something to a non professional or a person not connected to the domain whereby we make that person understand generally the words.

Then, we can explain to them the specific context. The professional person will anyway know the difference.

It is good that you have raised the mute question. In cyber security, as in many other contexts too, protection refers to prevention from outside influence or attacks and secure means through prevention we ensure to secure a system or data or operations from probable damage or disturbance. 

There are two major aspects to any word what it denotes (denotation) and what it connotes (connotation).

If we go to a site called www.powerthesaurus.com we will get minimum 500 associated words for every word. 

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The world's largest dictionary rather to be more precise is called lexical site is run by Google platform called www.Omnilexica.com

For example, STANDARDIZATION is very important in certain spheres like size of plug point or size of Sim cards; in certain areas UNIFORMITY is a necessity to measure and make comparative analysis to determine relative merits and demerits like syllabus in education system.

However, forced HOMOGENIZATION to mutilate variety is unwelcome like compelling everyone to lead only a certain way of life.

Similarly, even natural beauty like a vast mountainous region or travelling in big rivers like Amazon can get boring after sometimes due to sheer MONOTONY.

Either unintentionally or intentionally all the four above i.e. Standards, Uniformity, Homogeneity, Monotony all indicate some sort of sameness or similarity.

However, their importance, impact and our interest in them are obvious but in the case of homogenization it is subtly injected and in the case of MONOTONY it is our mental reaction or attitude.​​

Evaluation of any profession must be based on matters intrinsic to the domain and relevant to context. 

Heart itself is wonderfully referred to as HRUDAYA in Sanskrit which is one of the most perfect terms to indicate both the physical and psychological functionality of the heart.

Besides these surface meaning there is also an esoteric meaning in most of the Sanskrit words.

Meaning of "Hrudaya" from the Bruhadaranya Upanishad:

'Hru' means to bring. This involves bringing impure blood from the body to the heart.

'Da' means to give, involves giving pure blood to the body.

'Ya' means to set right all the activities and maintain the stability of the body. 

It is like in Telugu Saint Tyagaraja’s wonderful kriti where he sings

‘nidhi cAla sukhamA rAmuni sannidhi sEva sukhamA nijamuga palku manasA’

My Mind (manasA)! Tell me (palku) truthfully (nijamuga) whether wealth (nidhi) is very (cAla) comforting (sukhamA) or the service (sEva) in the holy presence (sannidhi) of Lord SrI rAma (rAmuni) comforting (sukhamA)?

We cannot either read or explain seperately the two ‘nidhis’ . It has to be explained or understood only in context .