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OWASP broken access control (noun) May 06, 2025

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Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls.

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OWASP security misconfiguration (noun) Apr 29, 2025

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The state of a web application when it's vulnerable to attack due to an insecure configuration.

CyberWire Glossary link: ⁠⁠https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-security-misconfiguration⁠⁠

Audio reference link: ⁠⁠“What Is the Elvish Word for Friend?”⁠⁠ Quora, 2021.

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OWASP insecure design (noun) Apr 22, 2025

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A broad OWASP Top 10 software development category representing missing, ineffective, or unforeseen security measures.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-insecure-design

Audio reference link: “Oceans Eleven Problem Constraints Assumptions.” by Steve Jones, YouTube, 4 November 2015.

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OWASP injection (noun) Apr 15, 2025

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A broad class of attack vectors, where an attacker supplies input to an applications command interpreter that results in unanticipated functionality.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-injection

Audio reference link: “APPSEC Cali 2018 - Taking on the King: Killing Injection Vulnerabilities” YouTube Video. YouTube, March 19, 2018.

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OWASP cryptographic failures (noun) Apr 08, 2025

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Code that fails to protect sensitive information.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-cryptographic-failure

Audio reference link: Vandana Verma. “OWASP Spotlight - Project 10 - Top10.” YouTube Video. YouTube, January 4, 2021.

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account takeover prevention (noun) Apr 01, 2025

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The prevention of the first part of an intrusion kill chain model exploitation technique, where the hacker steals valid logging credentials from a targeted victim.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/account-takeover-prevention

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threat hunting (noun) Mar 25, 2025

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The process of proactively searching through networks to detect and isolate security threats, rather than relying on security solutions or services to detect those threats.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/threat-hunting

Audio reference link: “My ‘Aha!" Moment - Methods, Tips, & Lessons Learned in Threat Hunting - sans Thir Summit 2019.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Feb. 2020.

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vulnerability management (noun) Mar 18, 2025

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The continuous practice of identifying classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities within this.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/vulnerability-management

Audio reference link: “Vulnerability Scanning - Comptia Security+ sy0-501 - 1.5.” YouTube, YouTube, 11 Nov. 2017,

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software bill of materials (SBOM) (noun) Mar 11, 2025

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A formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software.

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zero trust (noun) Mar 04, 2025

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A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more.

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