Cybersecurity

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.

Zero-Day Vulnerability

A software security flaw unknown to the vendor that can be exploited before a patch is available.

The practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks including unauthorised access, use, and disruption.

Automated tools that continuously assess cloud infrastructure configurations against security best practices and compliance requirements, identifying and remediating misconfigurations.

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

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

A programming error where data written to a buffer exceeds its capacity, potentially allowing code execution.

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

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

A structured approach for identifying, quantifying, and addressing security threats to a system or application.