Attack Vector

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.

The discipline of protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model theft, and prompt injection while ensuring the secure deployment of AI in production environments.

A cyberattack targeting the less-secure elements of a supply chain to compromise a primary target.

An approach that integrates security considerations into every stage of the software development lifecycle.

An integrated security platform that protects cloud-native applications across the full lifecycle, combining workload protection, configuration management, and runtime security.

The process of converting plaintext data into ciphertext using an algorithm, making it unreadable without the decryption key.

A code injection technique that exploits vulnerabilities in database-driven applications through malicious SQL statements.

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

The proactive search for cyber threats within an organisation's environment that have evaded automated detection, using hypotheses, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics.