# Covert Network **Entity class:** Organizational-network concept **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A **covert network** is organized to hide some combination of membership, structure, communication, funding, or purpose. Such networks trade efficiency for security through compartmentation, cells, cut-outs, weakly visible brokers, and redundant paths. ## Relationships - **related to:** [[wiki/Dark Network|Dark Network]]. - **analyzed by:** [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]], [[wiki/Association Matrix|Association Matrix]], and [[wiki/Pattern-of-Life Analysis|Pattern-of-Life Analysis]]. - **intervention:** [[wiki/Network Disruption|Network Disruption]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]