Cybersecurity Glossary

Cybersecurity: Lexicon and Glossary

From A for APT to Z for Zero-Day

IT security is a complex topic - especially when you are given the task of familiarizing yourself with this topic in order to make your own company more resilient against cyber attacks. To offer some assistance here, we have created a comprehensive lexicon and glossary in which we explain the most important IT security terms.

From A for Advanced Persistent Threat to Z for Zero-Day-Exploit - in our glossary you will find all the important terms, definitions and explanations you need to find your way around the world of IT security. If something is missing: write to us!

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2FA (Two-factor authentication)
A
Active Directory Attack Surface API Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Assume Breach ASN
B
Backdoor Backup Beacon Biometric Authentication Blended Attack Black Hat-Hacker Black-Box-Pentest Brute Force Attack Bot & Botnet Bug Bounty Program
C
Certificate Transparency Logs CIA Triad CIDR CIS Controls Credential Stuffing
D
Data exfiltration Darknet Deep Fake
E
External Attack Surface Management Ethical Hacking Exploit
F
FINMA-RS 08/21 & 23/01
G
Grey-Box-Pentest
H
Hacker
I
Infostealer
J
K
L
Lateral Movement
M
Malware Managed Security Service Provider
N
NIS2
O
ÖNORM A7700
P
Penetration testing Phishing Portscan
Q
R
Red Teaming
S
Scope Shadow-IT Subdomain Enumeration
T
Tailgating
V
Vishing
W
Whaling White Hat Hacker White-Box-Pentest
X
Z
Zero Day Exploit
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