🖥️Security Operations Center

A team that monitors and responds to security incidents.

📄Security Policy

A document defining rules and procedures for protecting assets.

🎟️Single Sign-On

A system allowing one login to access multiple applications.

🎭Social Engineering

Manipulating people into revealing confidential information.

🎯Spear Phishing

A targeted phishing attack aimed at a specific individual or group.

🕵️Spyware

Software that secretly collects information about a user's activities.

🔁Symmetric Encryption

Encryption using the same key for both encoding and decoding.

🚪Tailgating

Gaining physical access by following an authorized person into a secure area.

⚠️Threat

Any potential cause of harm to a system or data.

🏹Threat Hunting

Proactively searching for threats that evade existing defenses.

🧠Threat Intelligence

Information about existing or emerging threats used to inform defense.

🐴Trojan

Malware disguised as legitimate software to deceive users.

🌐Virtual Private Network

A service that encrypts internet traffic and hides a user's IP address.

🦠Virus

Malicious code that replicates by attaching to other programs.

🕳️Vulnerability

A weakness in a system that can be exploited by a threat.

🔎Vulnerability Assessment

A systematic review of a system to identify security flaws.

🐛Worm

Self-replicating malware that spreads across networks without a host.

🚫Zero Trust

A security model that trusts no user or device by default.

0️⃣Zero-Day

A vulnerability exploited before a patch is available.