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Glossary

Learn the lingo. Find definitions and learn about the general application of common industry terms as they are used on this website.

 

A

ActiveX >

Advanced compression >

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) >

Anti-phishing >

Application acceleration >

Application accelerator >

Application delivery controller >

Application firewall >

Application intelligence >

Application layer firewall >

Application layer gateway >

Application layer security >

Application traffic manager >

Asymmetric deployment >

 

B

Bandwidth >

Buffer overflow >

 

C

Cross-site scripting >

Caching >

CDN (Content Delivery Network) >

CIFS SMB >

Clientless remote access >

Connection flood >

Cookie poisoning >

 

D

Data integrity >

Data layer security >

Delivery networking >

Denial of service >

Diameter interfaces >

Diameter load balancer >

Diameter protocol >

Disaster recovery/business continuity >

DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) >

DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) >

DNS flood: NXDOMAIN flood >

DNS flood: query flood >

DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) >

 

E

Endpoint security >

Extranet access control >

 

F

File server consolidation >

 

G

GET flood >

Global namespace >

 

 

H

Hash DoS attack >

 

I

ICMP flood, Ping flood, Smurf attack >

Intelligent compression >

Internet traffic management >

IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) >

IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) >

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) >

IWF (Interworking Function) >

IP QoS >

IPsec VPN >

IPv6 gateway >

IPv6 proxy >

 

J

Java >

 

L

Latency >

Load balancer >

 

M

MIB (Management Information Base) >

 

N

NAS (Network Attached Storage) >

Network availability >

Network traffic management >

NFS (Network File System) >

NMS (Network Management Station) >

 

O

OID (Object Identifier) >

 

P

PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) >

Policy enforcement >

PUSH and ACK flood >

 

Q

QoS (Quality of Service) >

 

R

Rate shaping >

Replication >

Reverse proxy >

RFC 3588 >

RFC 6733 >

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) >

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) >

RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) >

 

 

S

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) >

Secure application delivery >

Secure remote access >

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) >

SIP proxy >

SIP proxy server >

SIP VoIP gateway >

SLA (Service-Level Agreement) >

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) >

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) >

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) >

SQL injection >

SSL acceleration >

SSL bridging >

SSL decryption >

SSL flood and SSL renegotiation attacks >

SSL offloading >

SSL termination >

SSL VPN >

SYN flood >

 

T

Teardrop attack >

Telecommunications industry organizations >

Traffic management >

Traffic shaping >

 

U

UDP flood >

Universal access controller >

Universal access manager >

 

W

WAF (Web application firewall) >

Web 2.0 >

Web acceleration >

Web application performance >

Web application security >

Web performance >

Web server performance >

Wireless network security >

 

X

XML (Extensible Markup Language) >

XML firewall >