personal security
Keeping someone safe
Personal security refers to measures protecting an individual from physical harm, theft, or other threats.
It encompasses both the state of being safe and the means of achieving it: bodyguards provide personal security, as do locks, alarms, and awareness of one's surroundings.
The executive travels with a personal security detail.
The term also covers protection of private information and identity.
- self-defenseProtecting oneself from harm
- bodyguardPaid personal security agent
- close protectionSecurity for specific individuals
- protectionGuarding against harm
- identity protectionMeasures preventing personal fraud
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personal securityvulnerability
Openness to harm
insecurity · endangerment · defenselessness · peril · jeopardy
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Protecting a country militarily
national security · collective security · public safety · state security · civil defense
personal securityinstability
Tendency toward unpredictable change
precariousness · anxiety · existential dread · vulnerability · fragility
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