Privilege Escalation

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

SOC (Security Operations Center)

A centralized unit staffed by security analysts who monitor an organization's IT infrastructure for cybersecurity threat...

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

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

Man-in-the-Middle (MITM)

An attack where the attacker secretly intercepts and potentially alters communications between two parties who believe t...

Social Engineering

The psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, exploiting human...

Zero-Day Exploit

An attack that targets a previously unknown vulnerability in software, hardware, or firmware before the vendor has relea...

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

A prolonged and targeted cyberattack where a sophisticated threat actor (typically a nation-state or organized crime gro...

Brute Force Attack

An attack method that systematically tries all possible combinations of characters to crack passwords, encryption keys, ...