Privilege Escalation

An attack where a user gains elevated access to resources that are normally protected, beyond what their assigned permis...

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

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

Port Scanning

A technique used to identify open ports and services available on a networked host by sending connection requests to a r...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

A set of roles, policies, hardware, software, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revok...

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

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

TLS (Transport Layer Security)

A cryptographic protocol designed to provide secure communication over a computer network by encrypting data in transit ...

Vulnerability Assessment

A systematic process to identify, quantify, and prioritize security vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networ...

Penetration Testing

An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, network, or application performed to evaluate its security pos...