Online privacy and cybersecurity glossary
Comprehensive explanations of key privacy, VPN, and online protection concepts
Dictionary
A
B
C
- Campus area network
- Canonical data model (CDM)
- Cellular network
- Certificate-based authentication
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- Chipset
- Cipher suite
- Ciphertext
- Class A IP address
- Class B IP address
- Class C IP address
- Client-server network
- Cloud data platform
- Cloud database
- Cloud networking
- Cloud security posture management (CSPM)
- Cloud VPN
- Code generator
- Communication protocol
- Configuration management database (CMDB)
- Content delivery network (CDN)
- Content Security Policy (CSP)
- Controller area network (CAN)
- Credentials
- Cyber extortion
- Cybersecurity framework
- Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
D
- Dark Web
- Data access
- Data acquisition
- Data aggregation
- Data analytics
- Data archiving
- Data at rest
- Data audit
- Data availability
- Data backup
- Data bank
- Data breach
- Data bus
- Data center architecture
- Data center design
- Data center rack
- Data center storage
- Data center tiers
- Data center virtualization
- Data cloud
- Data collection
- Data conversion
- Data corruption
- Data custodian
- Data deduplication
- Data definition language (DDL)
- Data dictionary
- Data diode
- Data driven
- Data entry
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
- Data exfiltration
- Data fabric
- Data feed
- Data governance framework
- Data in motion
- Data independence
- Data integrity
- Data intelligence
- Data lake
- Data leakage
- Data link layer
- Data logging
- Data loss
- Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Data marketplace
- Data mart
- Data masking
- Data migration
- Data mining
- Data modernization
- Data packet
- Data plane
- Data poisoning
- Data preprocessing
- Data processor
- Data profiling
- Data protection policy
- Data redundancy
- Data retrieval
- Data sanitization
- Data scraping
- Data server
- Data source
- Data sovereignty
- Data subject
- Data theft
- Data transfer
- Data transmission
- Data validation
- Data verification
- Data warehouse
- Data wiping
- Database administration
- Database management system (DBMS)
- Database replication
- Database-as-a-Service
- Datafication
- Datagram
- Datastore
- Decryption
- Dedicated IP
- Default password
- Differential privacy
- Digest authentication
- Digital certificate
- Digital data
- Digital footprint
- Digital identity
- Digital information
- Digital piracy
- Digital switch
- Digital trust
- Digital twin
- Digital watermarking
- Digitalization
- Direct memory access (DMA)
- Directory services
- Directory traversal attack
- Discretionary access control (DAC)
- DNS
- DNS A record
- DNS amplification attack
- DNS attack
- DNS cache
- DNS filtering
- DNS firewall
- DNS hijacking
- DNS hosting
- DNS load balancing
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
- DNS port
- DNS propagation
- DNS proxy
- DNS PTR record
- DNS query
- DNS record
- DNS resolution
- DNS server
- DNS sinkhole
- DNS SRV record
- DNS TTL
- DNS tunneling
- DNS TXT record
- DNS zone
- DNS zone transfer
- DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions)
- Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
- Dynamic IP
- Dynamic website
E
F
G
H
I
- Identity and access management (IAM)
- In-memory database
- Indicators of compromise (IOCs)
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- Information security management system (ISMS)
- Information security policy
- Infrastructure security
- Insecure deserialization
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
- Internet backbone
- Internet bot
- Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
- Internet exchange point (IXP)
- Internet of Bodies (IoB)
- Internet of Everything
- Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
- Internet Protocol address
- Internet security
- Internet telephony
- Internet troll
- Internetworking
- IP camera
- IP network
- IP packet
- IP reputation
- IP SLA
- IP spoofing
- ipconfig
- IPsec
- IPv4
- IT security
J
K
L
M
N
- Network access control (NAC)
- Network adapter
- Network administrator
- Network automation
- Network bridge
- Network configuration management (NCM)
- Network congestion
- Network connectivity
- Network database
- Network detection and response (NDR)
- Network discovery
- Network drive
- Network file system
- Network forensics
- Network function virtualization (NFV)
- Network hub
- Network ID
- Network infrastructure
- Network intelligence
- Network interface card
- Network layer
- Network management system
- Network map
- Network operating system
- Network operations center (NOC)
- Network optimization
- Network port
- Network protocols
- Network security protocols
- Network slicing
- Network socket
- Network software
- Network TAP
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Network topology
- Network traffic analysis
- Network virtualization
- Next-generation firewall
O
P
- Passive optical network
- Password policy
- Password protection
- Password spraying
- Password vault
- Passwordless authentication
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- Perimeter firewall
- Perimeter security
- Peripheral device
- Personal area network (PAN)
- Personal VPN
- PGP encryption
- Pipeline
- Playfair cipher
- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
- Post Office Protocol (POP)
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Primary DNS server
- Privacy policy
- Private cloud storage
- Private IP address
- Public IP
- Public key encryption
- Public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Public switched telephone network
Q
R
- Rail fence cipher (zigzag cipher)
- Random Access Memory (RAM)
- Real-time data
- Recurrent neural network (RNN)
- Remote access trojan
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
- Remote monitoring and management (RMM)
- Reverse DNS
- Reverse proxy
- Ring network
- Risk monitoring
- Rogue access point
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Rotating proxy
- Round-trip time (RTT)
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
S
- Script kiddie
- Scripting language
- Secure Boot
- Secure coding
- Secure connection
- Secure enclave
- Secure erase
- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Secure print
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- Security assessment
- Security audit
- Security automation
- Security certificate
- Security hardening
- Security monitoring
- Security operations center (SOC)
- Security patch
- Security policy
- Security software
- Security through obscurity
- Security token
- Session border controller
- Session cookie
- Session hijacking
- Sextortion
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Software repository
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Split DNS
- SSL encryption
- SSL VPN
- StartTLS
- Stateful firewall
- Static data
- Static IP
- Sticky session
- Storage capacity
- Storage management
- Storage virtualization
- Storage-as-a-Service
- Stream cipher
- Strong authentication
- Substitution cipher
- Supply chain security
- Synthetic data
- System Integrity Protection (SIP)
- System security
T
U
V
W
- Web client
- Web content filtering
- Web content management
- Web filter
- Web mining
- Web protection
- Web security gateway
- Web server
- Web shell
- Web-based application
- Web3
- Webhook
- Webpage
- Website architecture
- Website defacement
- What is DNS round robin?
- WireGuard
- Wireless local area network (WLAN)
- Wireless network security
