Glossary

A Covert Authorities Bureau (CAB) is a specialized unit in UK law enforcement/intelligence that centrally manages and ensures legal compliance for all covert operations (like surveillance, informants), handling the administrative...

The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) is a secure national database of images, videos and metadata of illegal Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) acquired by UK police and the National...

CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) is a UK law enforcement agency, part of the National Crime Agency (NCA), dedicated to protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation, both online...

A Community Impact Assessment (CIA) is a systematic process used by organizations (like police or local councils) to evaluate how new or changed policies, projects, or events might affect different...

Collective of individuals who take part in and promote radically extreme behaviours online. Com Networks encourage members to commit acts of violence and criminal damage and film such acts to...

Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) refers to sexually explicit content involving a child. This can include photographs, videos, or computer-generated images that depict a minor in a sexually explicit manner.

The CSERB is the Child Sexual Exploitation Referral Bureau, a critical national intelligence function within the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The CSERB acts as the primary gateway for receiving...

Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) is the UK’s national policing network, working with MI5 and other partners to prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist threats, focusing on disrupting plots, apprehending...

A group with a common purpose to conduct criminal activities that maliciously use digital technologies that target UK commerce/infrastructure by means of Network Intrusions/Ransomware etc.

A DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack floods a target server, website, or network with overwhelming amounts of fake traffic from numerous compromised devices (a botnet) to exhaust its resources (bandwidth, RAM)...