Cyber Kill Chain

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.

Technology and processes that prevent sensitive data from being lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorised users.

Technology that aggregates and analyses security data from across an organisation to detect threats.

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

Practices and tools that protect the integrity of software components, dependencies, build pipelines, and distribution channels from compromise and tampering.

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

The specific path, method, or scenario used by an attacker to gain unauthorised access to a system.

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

Security solutions focused on detecting and responding to identity-based attacks such as credential theft, privilege escalation, and compromised service accounts.