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 firewal...

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...