Glossary
Defining the key cybersecurity terms you need to know
Deepen your knowledge with definitions, explanations, and overviews of the most important terms and concepts in cybersecurity.
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- Active Certificate Analysis
- Active Response
- Adversarial Exposure Validation Tools
- Adversary Emulation
- Agent Authentication
- Agent-Orchestrated Threat Hunting
- Agentic AI Security Orchestration
- Agentic SOC
- AI-Driven MDR
- AI SOC Agent
- Anomalous Process Memory Behavior
- Anomaly Detection Network Security
- Application Configuration Hardening
- ARS v3.1
- Asset Risk Profiles
- Attack Path Validation
- Attack Path Visualization
- Attack Surface Management
- Authentication Event Thresholding
- Automated Incident Response
- Automated Incident Triage
- Automated Remediation
- Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA)
- Automated Threat Analysis
- Automated Threat Detection
- Automated Threat Prevention
- Autonomous Adversarial Agents
- Autonomous Incident Management
- Autonomous SOC
- BAS Assessment
- Behavioral AI Models
- Behavioral Biometrics
- Bootloader Authentication
- Breach Attack Simulation
- Breach Intelligence
- Byte Sequence Emulation
- Camouflage Trojans
- Certificate Analysis
- Client-Server Payload Profiling
- Cloud Controls Matrix
- Cloud Detection and Response
- Code Mutation
- Code-Reuse Attacks
- Command-and-Control Communications (C2)
- Commodity Malware
- Complete Detection Coverage
- Connection Attempt Analysis
- Containment-as-Code
- Context-Aware Threat Analytics
- Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
- Continuous Threat Hunting
- Credential Hardening
- Credential Rotation
- Credential Stuffing Tools
- Credential Theft
- Curated Threat Intelligence
- Custom Cybersecurity Solutions
- Cyber Resilience
- Cyber Risk & Exposure
- Cyber Risk Reduction
- Cyber Shadowing
- Cybersecurity Skills Gap
- Database Query String Analysis
- Detection-as-Code (DaC)
- Detection Coverage
- Detection Rule Validation
- Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
- Disclosure, Alteration, and Destruction (DAD Triad)
- Dynamic Risk Scoring
- Endpoint Health Beacons
- Enrichment Agent in Agentic AI MDR
- Enterprise SOC Automation
- Ethical Logging
- Evolutionary Trojans
- Fileless Malware
- Firmware Behavior Analysis
- Firmware-Embedded Monitoring Code
- Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE)
- ICD 503
- Identifier Reputation Analysis
- Identity Risk Profiles
- Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
- In-Memory Analysis
- Indicators of Behavior
- Indicators of Compromise
- Initial Access Brokers
- Inline Prompt Redaction
- Intel Fusion Agent in Agentic AI MDR
- IPC Traffic Analysis
- ISM Cyber Security Framework
- Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
- Managed EDR
- Managed Security
- Managed Security Platform
- Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
- Managed SOC Services
- Managed XDR
- MDR Agent
- MDR Providers
- MDR vs. XDR
- Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)
- Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR)
- Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)
- Memory Boundary Tracking
- Message Hardening
- MITRE D3FEND Matrix
- Modular Detection Logic
- Native XDR
- NERC CIP
- Network Behavior Analysis
- Network Detection and Response (NDR)
- Network Traffic Signature Analysis
- NICE Framework
- NIST RMF
- NIST SP 800-53
- Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
- Open XDR
- Open XDR Architecture
- Operating Mode Monitoring
- Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs)
- Parkerian Hexad
- Passive Certificate Analysis
- Pointer Validation
- Polymorphic APK
- Port Scanning Detection
- Preemptive Security
- Proactive Threat Hunting
- Process Spawn Analysis
- Proxy Trojans
- Red Team Agent in Agentic AI MDR
- Relay Pattern Analysis
- Remote Mitigative Response
- Resource Access Pattern Analysis
- Response Agent in Agentic AI MDR
- Risk-Based Alerting
- RMM Security
- RPC Traffic Analysis
- SANS CAG
- Security Analytics
- Security Control Validation
- Security Incident Ticket
- Security Index
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Security Operating Platforms (SOP)
- Security Operations Center (SOC)
- Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
- Security Orchestrator Agent
- Security Policy Enforcement
- Security Policy Management
- Security Posture Management
- Security Telemetry
- Self-Modifying Malware
- Sensor Agent in Agentic AI MDR
- SIEM vs. MDR
- SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)