Glossary: Cybersecurity Terms & Definitions
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A
- Access Control
- Access Control List ACL
- Account Takeover Fraud
- Active Directory
- Active/Active Configuration
- Activex
- Adaptive Applications
- Address Resolution Protocol ARP
- ADSP
- Advanced Compression
- Advanced Encryption Standard AES
- Adversarial AI
- Agentic Artificial Intelligence / Agentic AI
- AI and ML Inference
- AI data center
- AI Data Poisoning
- AI Data Processing
- AI data security
- AI Firewalls
- AI Foundry
- AI penetration testing
- AI red teaming
- AI Threat Detection
- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
- Algorithm
- Anti Phishing
- Apache
- API
- API Connectivity
- API Developer Experience
- API Discovery
- API First
- API Gateway
- API Management
- API security
- API sprawl
- API testing
- App server
- Application acceleration
- Application accelerator
- Application delivery
- Application delivery controller
- Application firewall
- Application intelligence
- Application layer firewall
- Application layer gateway
- Application layer security
- Application security
- Application server vs web server
- Application services
- Application traffic manager
- Artificial Intelligence Dependency / AI Dependency
- Artificial Intelligence Plugin / AI Plugin
- Asymmetric deployment
- Attack Acceleration
- AWS Multicloud Strategies
B
C
- Caching
- Certificate Authority
- Certificate Signing Request CSR
- Challenge Response Authentication
- CIFS SMB
- Client Certificate
- Clientless Remote Access
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud Native
- Cloud Operating System
- Clustering
- Command Injection
- Connection Flood
- Container
- Content Delivery Network CDN
- Content Filtering
- Content Server
- Control Plane
- Cookie
- Cookie Poisoning
- Credential
- Credential Stuffing Attack
- Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF
- Cross Site Scripting
- Cyber resilience
- Cyberattacks
- Cybersecurity
D
- Data Breach
- Data Exfiltration
- Data Integrity
- Data Layer Security
- Data orchestration
- Data Plane
- Data Processing Unit
- Datagram Transport Layer Security DTLS
- DDoS Mitigation
- Defense In Depth
- Delivery Networking
- Demilitarized Zone Dmz
- Denial Of Service
- Denial of Service Attack / DoS Attack
- Denial Of Service Tool
- Devops
- Diameter Edge Agent Dea
- Diameter Interfaces
- Diameter Load Balancer
- Diameter Protocol
- Diameter Routing Agent DRA
- Dictionary Attack
- Digital Certificate
- Digital Infrastructure
- Direct Server Return DSR
- Directory Traversal
- Disaster Recovery Business Continuity
- Distributed Cloud
- Distributed Cloud Computing
- Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attack
- DNS
- DNS Flood Nxdomain Flood
- DNS Flood Query Flood
- DNS Load Balancing
- DNS Round Robin
- DNS Zone Transfer
- Domain Name System Security Extensions DNSSEC
- Dynamic Application Security Testing DAST
E
F
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H
I
- ICMP Flood Ping Flood Smurf Attack
- Illegal Money Remittance
- IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)
- Independent Computing Architecture ICA
- Inference Layer
- Infrastructure as a Service IaaS
- Infrastructure as Code IAC
- Insecure (improper) output handling
- Insecure Plugin Design
- Intelligent compression
- Intermediate Certificates
- Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
- Internet Of Things IoT
- Internet Traffic Management
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
- Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- IP QoS
- IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)
- IPsec VPN
- IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)
- IPv6 gateway
- IPv6 Proxy
- IWF (Interworking Function)
J
L
M
- Machine Learning Operations
- Malicious Code
- Malware
- Man-in-the-Browser (MITB) Attack
- Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attack
- Management Information Base MIB
- Management Plane
- Media Server
- Microsegmentation
- Microservices Architecture
- Mobile Device Management MDM
- Model (Artificial Intelligence)
- Model Agnostic
- Model Context Protocol
- Monolithic Application
- MQTT
- Multi Cloud
- Multi Cloud Network Architecture
- Multi Cloud Security
- Multi Cloud Strategies
- Multi Factor Authentication
- Multi-Homing
- Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture
- Multicloud Deployment
N
- Name Resolution
- Network Address Port Translation NAPT
- Network Address Translation
- Network Attached Storage NAS
- Network Availability
- Network File System NFS
- Network Management Station NMS
- Network Time Protocol NTP
- Network Traffic Management
- Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation NVGRE
- Next Generation Firewall
- NGINX
O
P
- Packet Filtering
- Passive Mode FTP
- Passive Prompt Injection Attack
- Password Attack
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS
- PC over IP (PCoIP)
- Persistence
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- Physical Layer
- Pipeline Processing
- Platform Engineering
- Platform ops
- Policy Enforcement
- Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC)
- Port Address Translation PAT
- POST Method
- Progressive Download
- Prompt injection
- Provider Agnostic
- Proxy
- Public Cloud
- Public Key
- Public Key Infrastructure PKI
- Purple Teaming
- PUSH And ACK Flood
R
- Rate shaping
- Real Time API
- Recovery Point Objective RPO
- Recovery Time Objective RTO
- Red Teaming
- Redundancy
- Remote Access
- Remote Access VPN
- Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
- Replication
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
- REST API
- Retraining Models
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Reverse proxy
- Reverse Proxy Server
- RFC 3588
- RFC 6733
- Root Certificate
- Root Certification Authority
- Round Robin
- Round robin load balancing
- Router
- Routing
S
- SAML
- Sanitized Dataset
- Scalable AI
- Scraping
- SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
- Secret
- Secret Key
- Secure Application Delivery
- Secure Coding
- Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-1
- Secure Network Address Translation SNAT
- Secure Remote Access
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- Security Breaches
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Self Signed Certificate
- Sensitive Information Disclosure
- Server Certificate
- Service Chaining
- Service Level Agreement SLA
- Service Mesh
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture SOA
- Session Initiation Protocol Sip
- Session Management
- Session persistence
- Shadow Artificial Intelligence (Shadow AI)
- Sidecar
- Signature
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- SIP proxy
- SIP proxy server
- SIP VoIP gateway
- Site Reliability Engineering SRE
- Site To Site VPN
- Slowloris
- SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Spam Email
- SPDY
- Spoofing
- SQL injection
- SSL acceleration
- SSL bridging
- SSL decryption
- SSL flood and SSL renegotiation attacks
- SSL load balancer
- SSL Offloading
- SSL Termination
- SSL VPN
- SSL/TLS Encryption
- SSRF
- Supply Chain Attack
- Switch
- SYN
- SYN Flood Attack
- SYSLOG
T
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V
W
- WAN Acceleration
- WAN Accelerator
- Web 2.0
- Web Acceleration
- Web App And Api Protection WAAP
- Web Application Firewall WAF
- Web application performance
- Web application security
- Web performance
- Web server
- Web server performance
- WebSocket
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- White Box
- Wireless network security
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