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incident response (noun) Dec 17, 2024

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A collection of people, process, and technology that provides an organization the ability to detect and respond to cyber attacks.

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script kiddies (noun) Dec 10, 2024

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Cybercriminals who lack the expertise to write their own programs use existing scripts, code, or tools authored by other more skilled hackers.

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sandbox (noun) Dec 03, 2024

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An isolated and controlled set of resources that mimics real world environments and used to safely execute suspicious code without infecting or causing damage to the host machine, operating system, or network.

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security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) (noun) Nov 26, 2024

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A stack of security software solutions and tools that allow organizations to orchestrate disparate internal and external tools which feed pre-built automation playbooks that respond to events or alert analysts if an event meets a certain threshold.

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personally identifiable information (PII) (noun) Nov 19, 2024

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A term of legal art that defines the types of data and circumstances that permits a third party to directly or indirectly identify an individual with collected data.

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secure access service edge (SASE) (noun) Nov 12, 2024

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A security architecture that incorporates the cloud shared responsibility model, a vendor provided security stack, an SD-WAN abstraction layer, and network peering with one or more of the big content providers and their associated fiber networks.

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red teaming (noun) Nov 05, 2024

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The practice of emulating known adversary behavior against an organization's actual defensive posture.

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next generation firewall (noun) Oct 29, 2024

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A layer seven security orchestration platform deployed at the boundary between internal workloads slash data storage and untrusted sources that blocks incoming and outgoing network traffic with rules that tie applications to the authenticated user and provides most of the traditional security stack functions in one device or software application.

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fast flux (noun) Oct 22, 2024

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A network designed to obfuscate the location of a cyber adversary's command and control server by manipulating the domain name system, or DNS, in a way that rotates the associated IP address among large numbers of compromised hosts in a botnet.

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encryption (noun) Oct 15, 2024

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The process of converting plain text into an unrecognizable form or secret code to hide its true meaning.

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