Privilege Escalation

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

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)

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

SOC (Security Operations Center)

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

Port Scanning

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

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...

Phishing

A social engineering attack that uses fraudulent emails, text messages (smishing), or phone calls (vishing) to trick use...