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Encore: identity theft (noun) Mar 12, 2024

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In this case Identity is the set of credentials, usually electronic that vouch for who you are and theft is to steal. The theft of a person's identity for purposes of fraud.

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Encore: Monte Carlo Simulation (noun) Mar 05, 2024

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A probability simulation technique used to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in complex problems.

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Encore: Virtual Private Network (VPN) (noun) Feb 27, 2024

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A software, hardware or hybrid encryption layer between two devices on the network that makes the traffic between the sites opaque to the other devices on the same network.

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Encore: smishing (SMS phishing) (noun) Feb 20, 2024

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From the intrusion kill-chain model, the delivery of a “lure” via a text message to a potential victim by pretending to be some trustworthy person or organization in order to trick the victim into revealing sensitive information. Smishing is a portmanteau word made of two other words, the acronym “SMS” and the cyber coinage “Phishing“. It’s a text-message-centric variation of the email-based phishing scams that have been around since the 1990s. The term “Smishing” arose in the late 2000s.

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Encore: port mirroring (noun) Feb 13, 2024

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A network switch configuration setting that forwards a copy of each incoming and outgoing packet to a third switch port. Also known as SPAN or Switched Port Analyzer, RAP or Roving Analysis Port, and TAP or Test Access Point. When network managers and security investigators want to capture packets for analysis, they need some sort of generic TAP or Test Access Point. You can buy specialized equipment for this operation but most modern switches have this capability built in.

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Encore: Network Time Protocol (NTP) attack (noun) Feb 06, 2024

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A reflection or amplification distributed denial-of-service attack in which hackers query Internet network time protocol servers, NTP servers for short, for the correct time, but spoof the destination address of their target victims.

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Encore: smishing (SMS phishing) (noun) Jan 30, 2024

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Encore: port mirroring (noun) Jan 23, 2024

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Encore: Network Detection and Response (NDR) (noun) Jan 16, 2024

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NDR tools provide anomaly detection and potential attack prevention by collecting telemetry across the entire intrusion kill chain on transactions across the network, between servers, hosts, and cloud-workloads, and running machine learning algorithms against this compiled and very large data set. NDR is an extension of the EDR, or endpoint detection and response idea that emerged in 2013.

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Encore: shadow IT (noun) Jan 09, 2024

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Technology, software and hardware deployed without explicit organizational approval. In the early days of the computer era from the 1980s through the 2000s security and information system practitioners considered shadow IT as completely negative. Those unauthorized systems were nothing more than a hindrance that created more technical debt in organizations that were already swimming in it with the known and authorized systems.

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