Security Orchestration Automation and Response

Security Operations Centre

A centralised facility where security professionals monitor, detect, analyse, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.

Intrusion Detection System

A system that monitors network traffic or system activities for malicious activity or policy violations.

Next-Generation Firewall

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

Endpoint Detection and Response

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

Incident Response Plan

A documented set of procedures for detecting, responding to, and recovering from cybersecurity incidents.

Digital Forensics

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

Honeypot

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

Extended Detection and Response

A unified security platform that integrates data from endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, and email to provide holistic threat detection, investigation, and automated response.

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response

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

Threat Hunting

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

Malicious software that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key.

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

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

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

A network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on security rules.

Using unique biological characteristics like fingerprints, facial features, or iris patterns to verify identity.

Security solutions that control and monitor access for users with elevated permissions to critical systems.

An isolated testing environment that mimics production settings for safely running untrusted programs or code.