Attack Surface

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.

A comprehensive inventory of all software components, libraries, and dependencies used in an application, enabling vulnerability tracking and supply chain risk management.

A system that monitors network traffic or system activities for malicious activity or policy violations.

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

A communication system where only the communicating users can read the messages, with encryption at both endpoints.

The secure storage, distribution, rotation, and auditing of sensitive credentials such as API keys, tokens, passwords, and certificates used by applications and services.

A web security vulnerability allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

Security systems that leverage machine learning and behavioural analytics to identify sophisticated cyber threats, anomalous patterns, and zero-day attacks in real time.

A network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on security rules.