Intrusion Prevention System

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.

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

An entity that issues digital certificates, verifying the identity of organisations and encrypting communications.

A set of voluntary guidelines for managing and reducing cybersecurity risk developed by the US National Institute of Standards.

An advanced firewall that goes beyond traditional packet filtering to include application awareness and intrusion prevention.

An auditing framework that evaluates the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of service organisations.

Security technology that monitors endpoint devices to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats.

A globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world cyber observations.

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