MITRE ATT&CK

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.

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

Insurance coverage protecting organisations against financial losses from cyberattacks, data breaches, and related incidents.

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

Authentication methods such as FIDO2 passkeys and hardware security keys that are immune to phishing attacks because credentials are cryptographically bound to the legitimate service.

Security technology embedded within applications that detects and blocks attacks in real time by monitoring application behaviour and request patterns during execution.

Automated security testing that continuously simulates real-world attack scenarios against production environments to validate defensive controls and identify security gaps.

A security model that requires strict identity verification for every person and device accessing resources regardless of location.