Authorization

The process of determining what resources or actions an authenticated user is permitted to access. While authentication ...

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

An approach to restricting system access to authorized users based on their role within an organization rather than indi...

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

A technology that creates a secure, encrypted connection (tunnel) over a less secure network such as the internet, allow...

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)

A software solution that aggregates and analyzes security data from across the organization — including logs from firewa...

Packet Sniffing

The practice of capturing and analyzing network traffic data packets as they travel across a network using tools like Wi...

Encryption

The process of converting plaintext data into an unreadable format (ciphertext) using a cryptographic algorithm and key,...

Hashing

A one-way function that converts input data of any size into a fixed-length string of characters (hash value or digest),...

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

A symmetric block cipher algorithm adopted by the U.S. government as the standard for encrypting electronic data, replac...