Adversary Simulation

Cybersecurity

The practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks, unauthorised access, and data breaches.

Threat Intelligence

Evidence-based knowledge about existing or emerging threats to an organisation's digital assets and infrastructure.

Vulnerability Assessment

The process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritising security vulnerabilities in systems and applications.

Penetration Testing

A simulated cyberattack against a system to evaluate the security of its defences and identify exploitable vulnerabilities.

Red Team

A group of security professionals who simulate real-world attacks to test an organisation's defensive capabilities.

Blue Team

A group of security professionals who defend against both real attackers and simulated attacks from red teams.

Purple Team

A collaborative security approach combining red team attack knowledge with blue team defensive capabilities.

Intrusion Prevention System

A network security technology that examines network traffic to detect and prevent vulnerability exploits.

Ransomware

Malicious software that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key.

Malware

Malicious software designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to computer systems.

Phishing

A social engineering attack that uses fraudulent communications to trick recipients into revealing sensitive information.

Spear Phishing

A targeted phishing attack directed at specific individuals or organisations using personalised deceptive content.

Security solutions that control and monitor access for users with elevated permissions to critical systems.

Security technology embedded within applications that detects and blocks attacks in real time by monitoring application behaviour and request patterns during execution.

An international standard for information security management systems specifying requirements for establishing and maintaining security.

A programme where organisations pay individuals for discovering and reporting software vulnerabilities.

A centralised facility where security professionals monitor, detect, analyse, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.

Automated security testing that continuously simulates real-world attack scenarios against production environments to validate defensive controls and identify security gaps.

An attack where the attacker secretly relays and potentially alters communication between two parties.

The practice of reporting security vulnerabilities to software vendors so they can be fixed before public exploitation.