Glossary - Page 11 - MELIUS CyberSafe

Certified Cloud Security Associate (CCSA)

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Definition: a certification that demonstrates an individual’s ability to apply best practices to cloud security architecture, design and more.

Business continuity

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Definition: developing strategies and process to ensure that an organisation can continue operating, or quickly recover, in the event of unexpected disruptions such as cyber-attacks.

Brute force

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Definition: a hacking technique where an attacker attempts to gain access to a system or account by trying many possible combinations of passwords until the correct one is found.

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD)

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Definition: the practice of allowing employees to use their own computer devices for work purposes. This may be cost-effective, but comes with new cyber security considerations to be made.

Breach

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Definition: an incident in which data, computer systems or networks are accessed or affected resulting in a compromise on the confidentiality, integrity or availability of information or data.

Botnet

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Definition: a network of compromised devices (referred to as bots) that are controlled by a single malicious actor. These botnets can be used for cybercrime such as launching distributed denial-of-service [...]

Blue team

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Definition: in a simulated cyber-attack, the blue team are responsible for defending the systems. Larger organisations will often organise their cyber security teams into Blue and Red teams.

Black hat

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Definition: hackers who have malicious or criminal intent.

Black box testing

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Definition: penetration testing where an ethical hacker has no knowledge of the system they are attacking. This simulates an attempted hack that comes from outside of an organisation.

Allowlist

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Definition: authorised applications for use within organisations. Also referred to as a whitelist.

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