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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.

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

A unified security platform that integrates multiple security tools and data sources for comprehensive threat detection.

A communication system where only the communicating users can read the messages, with encryption at both endpoints.

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

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

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

An approach integrating security practices within the DevOps process, making security a shared responsibility.

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