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A

Accelerated Mobile Pages

Acceptable use policy

Access control entry

Access management

Access Point Name

Account compromise

Account hijacking

Account takeover

Activation code

Adaptive authentication

Administrative privileges

Advanced evasion technique

Advanced metering infrastructure

Advanced penetration testing

Advanced persistent threat

Adversarial machine learning

Adversary group naming

Alphanumeric password

Alternative routing

Analog computer

Android package kit

Angler phishing

Anna Kournikova virus

Anomaly-based detection

Anonymous call rejection

Anonymous hackers

Answer-seizure ratio

Anti-fraud system

Anti-phishing service

Anti-Virus Scanner

Application acceleration

Application access management

Application allow-listing

Application awareness

Application client

Application delivery

Application delivery controller

Application delivery network

Application deployment

Application firewall

Application gateway

Application hosting

Application layer

Application log

Application Management

Application performance monitoring

Application program

Application programming interface

Application server

Application virtualization

Application-centric infrastructure

Arbitrary code execution

Area border router

Arithmetic logic unit

Artificial intelligence

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous transmission

ATM jackpotting

Attack signature

Attack surface management

Attack taxonomy

Attribute value pair

Augmented intelligence

Authentication bypass vulnerability

Authentication server

Authorized push payment fraud

Automatic content recognition

Automatic network

Automatic repeat request

Automation platform

Autonomous intelligence

Autonomous system

B

Backpropagation

Backup as a service

Backwards compatibility

Bandwidth meter

Bare metal provisioning

Baseboard management controller

Baseline configuration

Batch Processing

Bearer protocol

Behavior monitoring

Binary code analysis

Biometric authentication

Biometric device

Biometric security

Biometric spoofing

Birthday attack

Bit flipping attack

Black hat hacker

Blockchain technology

Blue hat hacker

Blue pill attack

Blue screen of death

Bogon filtering

Boot sector virus

Boundary protection

Bridge connection

Bridge protocol data unit

Broadband over power line

Broadband router

Broadcast address

Broken access control

Broken authentication attack

Browser hijacker

Browser hijacking

Browser isolation

Browser sandboxing

Brute-force attack

Buffer overflow attack

Bulk data transfer

Business email compromise

Byzantine fault tolerance

C

Cache coherence

Cache invalidation

Caesar encryption

Call detail record

Campus area network

Card purchase authorization

Carrier ethernet

Catching server

Cellular network

Centralized computing

Cerber ransomware

Certificate authority server

Certificate management

Certificate pinning

Certificate-based authentication

Chaffing and winnowing

Chosen Plaintext Attack

Circuit-level gateway

Class A IP address

Class B IP address

Class C IP address

Class D IP address

Class E IP address

Class of Service

Client-server network

Clop ransomware

Cloud architecture

Cloud archiving

Cloud as a service

Cloud containers

Cloud data platform

Cloud forensics

Cloud networking

Cloud operating system

Cloud sandboxing

Cloud security posture management

CloudTrust protocol

Cluster analysis

Cluster controller

Code management

Cognitive computing

Cognitive technology

Cold boot attack

Collision domain

Command injection

Command-line interface

Committed information rate

Communication protocol

Communications system

Compressed file

Compute platforms

Compute security

Computer forensics

Computer network defense

Computer network operations

Computer system

Concurrency control

Configuration file

Connection-oriented protocol

Consumer electronics

Container breakout

Container isolation

Container scanning

Container technology

Content Delivery Network

Content security policy

Context Delivery Architecture

Continuous integration and continuous deployment

Control framework

Control network

Control structure

Converged infrastructure

Conversation hijacking

Cookie stuffing

Copy protection

Copy-paste compromise

Could-based supercomputing

Country code top-level domain

CPU utilization

Credential harvesting

Credential stuffing

Critical infrastructure and key resources

Cross-browser fingerprinting

Cross-site requested forgery

Crossover Cable

Crypto shredding

Cryptographic algorithm

Cryptographic hash function

Cryptographic key

Cryptographic protocol

Cryptolocker ransomware

Customer edge router

Cutting-edge technology

Cyber attribution

Cyber espionage

Cyber harassment

Cyber incident response plan

Cyber insurance

Cyber operations

Cyber privateering

Cyber resiliency

Cyber threat hunting

Cyber vandalism

Cyber vigilantism

Cyber-physical attack

Cybersecurity ecosystem

Cybersecurity framework

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

Cybersecurity mesh

Cyclic redundancy check

D

Daisy chain routers

Dangling pointer

Data acquisition

Data administration

Data aggregation

Data availability

Data breach prevention

Data center design

Data center proxy

Data center rack

Data center storage

Data center tiers

Data center virtualization

Data collection

Data conversion

Data corruption

Data deduplication

Data definition language

Data exfiltration

Data flow model

Data governance framework

Data intelligence

Data link layer

Data loss prevention

Data manipulation language

Data marketplace

Data modernization

Data Protection as a Service

Data protection policy

Data redundancy

Data sanitization

Data segregation

Data sovereignty

Data terminal equipment

Data transmission

Data validation

Data verification

Data-centric security

Data-in-transit encryption

Database management system

Database replication

Database report

DDoS mitigation

Dead-box forensics

Deception technology

Declassification

Dedicated server

Default gateway

Default password

Defense In-Depth

Deflection routing

Demilitarized zone

Deperimeterization

Dictionary attack

Differential fault analysis attack

Differential privacy

Digest authentication

Digital certificate

Digital dystopia

Digital envelope

Digital exhaust

Digital fingerprint

Digital footprint

Digital identity

Digital information

Digital optimization

Digital Signature Algorithm

Digital watermarking

Direct memory access

Direct-connection

Directory traversal attack

Disaggregated storage

Disassociation attack

Disaster recovery as a service

Discretionary Access Control

Disk defragmentation

Distance Vector

Distorting proxy

Distributed file system

Distributed firewalls

Distributed network

Distributed system

Diverse routing

DNS AAAA record

DNS amplification attack

DNS cname record

DNS load balancing

DNS propagation

DNS rebinding attack

DNS redirection

DNS reflection attack

DNS round-robin

DNS zone transfer

Document versioning

Domain controller

Domain hijacking

Domain shadowing

Domain spoofing

DomainKeys Identified Mail

Dotted decimal notation

Downloader trojan

Drive-by attack

Drive-by download

Dual homed host

Dumpster diving attack

Dynamic analysis

Dynamic library

Dynamic website

E

Edge Datacenter

Egress filtering

Elastic IP address

Electronic customer relationship management

Electronic data interchange

Electronic document management system

Electronic intelligence

Electronic signature

Elliptic-curve cryptography

Email retention policy

Email signature

Embedded intelligence

Embedded software

Emission security

Emotion recognition

EMV Tokenization

Encapsulating security payload

Encrypted file transfer

Encryption as a service

End-to-end encryption

Endpoint device

Endpoint security

Enterprise application

Error correction code

Error detection and correction

Escrow Passwords

Ethical hacking

Evil maid attack

Evolutionary computation

Exploit-as-a-service (EaaS)

Expression language injection

Extensible Authentication Protocol

Exterior gateway protocol

F

Facebook stalking

Facial recognition

Fault injection attack

Fault tolerance

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

Fiber optic switch

Fiber to the Node

File allocation table

File hosting service

File integrity monitoring

File management system

Fileless attacks

Fileless malware

FIPS compliance

Firmware over-the-air

First-party cookie

Form authentication

Format string attack

Forward compatibility

Four-way handshake

Fragment overlap attack

Fraud as a Service

Freedom of information

Full disk encryption

Functional dependency

H

Halt and Catch Fire

Hamming distance

Handshake protocol

Hardware acceleration

Hardware identification

Hardware virtualization

Headless system

Heuristic analysis

Heuristic virus

High anonymity proxy

Homograph attack

Homomorphic encryption

Host intrusion prevention system

Host virtual machine

Host-based firewall

Host-based intrusion detection system

HTTP parameter pollution

HTTP request smuggling

HTTP Strict Transport Security

Hub and spoke network

Hybrid cloud management

Hybrid cloud networking

Hybrid cloud security

Hybrid cloud storage

Hybrid computer

Hybrid encryption

Hybrid firewall

Hybrid IT management

Hyperautomation

I

IAM authentication

Identity and access management

Identity cloning

Identity fabric

Identity orchestration

Identity proofing

Image recognition

Immutable ledger

Impersonation attack

Incremental backups

Indicator of compromise

Indicators of compromise

Inference attack

Information hiding

Information management

Information processing

Information security policy

Infrastructure security

Ingress filtering

Initial access brokers

Initial fraud alert

Initialization vector

Input validation attack

Insecure deserialization

Insecure direct object references

Insertion attack

Integer overflow

Integrated circuit

Integrated drive electronics

Integrated service digital network

Integrity checking

Intel Virtualization Technology

Intelligent character recognition

Intelligent cloud

Intelligent network

Intelligent web

Interception attacks

Interconnection agreement

Interface message processor

Interior gateway protocol

Internet backbone

Internet background noise

Internet Control Message Protocol

Internet key exchange

Internet of bodies

Internet of Everything

Internet of Medical Things

Internet Protocol address

Internet routing

Internet security

Internet telephony

Intrusion detection system

IP address blocking

IP surveillance

Iterative DNS query

J

JSONP injection

Just-in-Time access

M

Machine learning

Mail exchange record

Main distribution frame

Malware obfuscation

Malware sandboxing

Malware-as-a-service

Man-in-the-middle attack

Managed file transfer

Managed service provider platform

Management information base

Manchester encoding

Mandatory access control

Masquerade attack

Master boot record

Master password

Mean time to acknowledge

Mean time to failure

Mean time to patch

Mean time to recovery

Mean time to repair

Mean time to resolution

Mean time to respond

Media access control

Media access unit

Meltdown vulnerability

Memory Address Register

Memory allocation

Memory data register

Memory forensics

Memory-driven computing

Mesh networking

Message passing

Message switching

Metamorphic malware

Micro virtual machine

Micro-segmentation

Microsegmentation

Mobile ad hoc network

Mobile credential

Mobile network operator

Monitoring software

Monte Carlo simulation

Most significant bit

Moves adds and changes

Multi-cloud storage

Multi-tier application

Multicast router

Multiprotocol Label Switching

Mutual authentication

Mutual exclusion

N

Name resolution

Netwalker ransomware

Network access control

Network adapter

Network administrator

Network automation

Network based ids

Network bottleneck

Network configuration management

Network congestion

Network connectivity

Network convergence

Network database

Network degradation

Network detection and response

Network encryption

Network forensics

Network function virtualization

Network information system

Network infrastructure

Network intelligence

Network interface card

Network intrusion

Network intrusion protection system

Network management system

Network node manager

Network processor

Network resilience

Network sandboxing

Network scanning

Network security protocols

Network segment

Network service provider

Network slicing

Network sniffing

Network telescope

Network termination unit

Network throughput

Network Time Protocol

Network topology

Network traffic analysis

Network virtualization

Non-return-to-zero

Northbound interface southbound interface

NTP amplification attack

Null authentication

P

Packet coalescing

Packet filtering

Packet sniffing

Packet switched network

Packet switching

Parallel data transmission

Parallel processing

Parameter tampering

Parental controls

Passive surveillance

Password authentication protocol

Password policy

Password protection

Password salting

Password sniffer

Password spraying

Patch management

Pattern recognition

Perimeter firewall

Perimeter security

Peripheral device

Persistent cookie

Personal area network

Personal firewall

Personal identifiable information

Personal web server

Phase-shift keying

Phish-prone percentage

Physical address

Pirated software

Platform security

Point of presence

Point-to-point protocol

Polymorphic malware

Polymorphic virus

Port address translation

Port triggering

Portable computer

Portal application

Post inoculation attack

Post-quantum cryptography

Potentially unwanted application

Power distribution unit

Power over internet

Power usage effectiveness

Power-analysis attack

Predictive data mining

Presentation layer

Primary storage device

Private branch exchange

Private cloud storage

Private internet access

Priveleged account

Privilege escalation

Privileged access workstation

Proactive defense

Process hollowing

Promiscuous mode

Propagation delay

Proprietary information

Proprietary software

Protocol conversion

Pseudonymization

Pseudoransomware

Public cloud infrastructure

Public domain software

Public key encryption

Public key infrastructure

Q

QR code phishing

Quantum cryptography

Quantum error correction

Quantum hacking

Quantum key distribution

Quantum logic gates

Quid pro quo attack

R

Rainbow table attack

Random access memory

Raspberry Robin

Read-only memory

Real time computing

Real-time communications

Recommendation engine

Recovery time objective

Recurrent neutral network

Red screen of death

Redundant hardware

Reference architecture

Regional internet registry

Remote access server

Remote access trojan

Remote code execution

Remote computer

Remote desktop protocol

Remote infrastructure management

Remote monitoring and management

Remote outdoor router

Remote procedure call

Request for Comments

Resource exhaustion

Reverse brute-force attack

Reverse engineering

Reverse-path forwarding

REvil ransomware

Rich internet application

Risk assessment

Risk monitoring

Risk-based access control

Rogue access point

Rogue security software

Round Robin DNS

Round trip time

Route summarization

Routing information protocol

Rubber duck debugging

Rubber ducky attack

Ryuk ransomware

S

Scale-out storage

Scanning attack

Screen scraping

Screened subnet firewall

Scunthorpe problem

Second-party fraud

Secure connection

Secure destruction

Secure Electronic Transactions

Secure File Transfer Protocol

Secure software development lifecycle

Security assessment

Security automation

Security certificate

Security content automation protocol

Security domain

Security event management

Security hardening

Security identifier

Security monitoring

security operations center

Security perimeter

Security policy

Security software

Security through diversity

Segment routing

Self-destructing email

Self-signed certificate

Self-sovereign identity

Sensitive information

Sentiment analysis

Separation of duties

Server Message Block

Server redundancy

Server virtualization

Session fixation attack

Session hijacking

Shadow Password Files

Shared resources

Shimming attack

Shodan search engine

Shoulder surfing

Side-channel attack

Signaling gateway

Signals analysis

Signature verification

Skimming attack

SOC as a service

Social engineering

Social profiling

Software assurance

Software interrupt

Software package

Software piracy

Software repository

Software-defined infrastructure

Software-defined networking

Solid state drive

Source code analysis tool

Spanning tree protocol

Spectre vulnerability

Spoofing attack

SQL injection scanner

SQL injection tool

SSL stripping attack

Stateful firewall

Stateful inspection

Stateless firewall

Static code analysis

Storage area network server

Storage as a service

Storage automation

Storage capacity

Storage management

Storage over Internet Protocol

Storage virtualization

Streaming network telemetry

Strong authentication

Structured prediction

Substitution cipher

Supervised machine learning

Supply chain security

Suspicious activity report

Switching fabric

Symmetric key authentication

Synchronization

Synchronous data transmission

Synchronous optical networking

Synthetic identity theft

System integrity protection

System migration

System security

T

Tabletop exercise

Tampering attack

Targeted attacks

TCP reset attack

Teardrop attack

Tech support scam

Telecommunications equipment

TEMPEST shielding

Template injection

Terminal adapter

Terminal emulation

Terminal master key

Terminal node controller

Text data mining

Third-party cookie

Third-party fraud

Third-party risk management

Threat assessment

Threat landscape

Threat monitoring

Time division duplex

Time-division multiplexing

Token ring network

Top-down design

Tracking cookie

Traffic shaping

Transactional data

Transactions per second

Transparent bridge

Transparent proxy

Transport layer

Transposition cipher

Triangulation fraud

Trivial file transfer protocol

Trusted computing

Two-factor authentication

Two-phase commit

W

WAN aggregation

Watering hole attack

Wearable computer

Web access management

Web authorization management

Web based application

Web cache poisoning

Web content filtering

Web content management

Web security gateway

Web server security

Website defacement

Website spoofing

White hat hacker

Whitebox cryptography

Wi-Fi protected access pre-shared key

Wildcard certificate

Windows deployment services

Windows Registry

Windows Remote Management

Wire transfer fraud

Wireless bridge

Wireless fidelity

Wireless intrusion prevention system

Wireless local area network

Wireless network security

Workgroup bridge

X

XML external entity

XPath injection

Y

Yellow hat hacker

Z

Zero configuration networking

Zero-click attack

Zero-latency enterprise

Zombie computer

Zone-based firewall

0-9

128-Bit Encryption

2-tier architecture

256-Bit encryption

3-Tier architecture

3-way handshake

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