Red Team

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.

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 total number of points where an unauthorised user can try to enter or extract data from a system.

The continuous discovery, inventory, classification, and monitoring of all external-facing digital assets to identify and reduce an organisation's exposure to cyber threats.

Evidence-based knowledge about adversary capabilities, infrastructure, motives, and tactics that informs security decisions and enables proactive defence against cyber attacks.

The proactive search for cyber threats within an organisation's environment that have evaded automated detection, using hypotheses, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics.

Technology that automates security operations by orchestrating tools and processes for incident response.

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

A decoy system designed to attract attackers and study their methods while protecting real systems.

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