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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 services ›

Application traffic manager ›

Asymmetric deployment ›

 

B

Bandwidth ›

Bot management, mitigation, and protection ›

Bot mitigation ›

Buffer overflow ›

 

C

Cross-site scripting ›

Caching ›

CDN (Content Delivery Network) ›

CIFS SMB ›

Clientless remote access ›

Connection flood ›

Cookie poisoning ›

Credential Stuffing ›

 

D

Data integrity ›

Data layer security ›

Delivery networking ›

Denial of service ›

Diameter edge agent ›

Diameter interfaces ›

Diameter load balancer ›

Diameter protocol ›

Diameter routing agent ›

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 ›

Infrastructure as code ›

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) ›

Multi-Homing ›

 

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/TLS encryption ›

SSL VPN ›

SYN flood ›

 

T

Teardrop attack ›

Telecommunications industry organizations ›

Traffic management ›

Traffic shaping ›

 

U

UDP flood ›

Universal access controller ›

Universal access manager ›

 

V

Virtual private network ›

 

W

WAF (Web application firewall) ›

WAN acceleration ›

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 ›

 

z

Zero Trust ›