Glossary of terms

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A

C

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

T

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

A

Adware

Asset

Ammy Admin

Antivirus

Authentication

Authorization

C

Beaconing

Fileless malware

Biometric authentication

Botnet

Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

C

CISO

Red team

D

Dark web

Disaster Recovery Plan

Digital certificate

DdoS – Distributed denial of service

DNS spoofing

DORA

Credibility

E

Ethical hacker

Exploit

F

False positive

Firewall

Firmware

Forensic analysis of memory

G

GAP analysis

GEO-blocking (blocking based on geographic location)

Ghostware

Google Dorking

GPG (GNU Privacy Guard)

Greyware

H

Hashing

Risk assesment

Honeypot

Insider threat

HTTPS

Hybrid cloud

I

ISO/IEC 27002

What is the difference between ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002?

Internet of Things (IoT)

J

Java security

JavaScript hijacking

Juice Jacking

K

Kerberos

Keylogger

Quantum cryptography

Cyber attack

L

LDAP injection

M

Malware

Metadata

N

Data security breach

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Non-Repundation

T

OAuth

Obfuscation

DoS – denial of service

P

Penetration testing

Phishing

Incident response plan

Backup and recovery plan

Spoofed URL

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)

Risk assessment of cybersecurity

Attack surface

Q

Quantum computing

R

Ransomware

Risk

Risk-assessment

S

Social engineering

Access Control List (ACL)

Security Information and Event Management

IDS – Intrusion detection system

Encryption

Full disk encryption

T

Trap and trace

TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus)

TIBER- EU

Trojan Horse

U

Jailbreaking

Brute force attack

V

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Vishing - voice phishing

W

WEP – (Wired Equivalent Privacy)

X

XML injection

XOR encryption

Y

Yara

Z

Application security

Cloud security

Endpoint security

Buffer overflow

Z-Wave