Man-in-the-Middle Attack

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.

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

A cloud architecture that converges networking and security services including SD-WAN, firewall, and zero trust access into a unified cloud-delivered platform.

A model describing the stages of a cyberattack from reconnaissance through data exfiltration.

Security solutions that deploy decoy assets such as fake servers, credentials, and data to detect, misdirect, and analyse attackers who have breached perimeter defences.

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

The process of collecting, preserving, and analysing electronic evidence for investigating security incidents.

A technology stack that integrates security tools and automates incident response workflows, enabling faster triage, investigation, and remediation of security alerts.