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A supply chain cybersecurity accreditation standard designed for the protection of controlled unclassified information that the U.S. Department of Defense, or DoD, will require for all contract bids by October, 2025.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collection of people, process, and technology that provides an organization the ability to detect and respond to cyber attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cybercriminals who lack the expertise to write their own programs use existing scripts, code, or tools authored by other more skilled hackers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An isolated and controlled set of resources that mimics real world environments and used to safely execute suspicious code without infecting or causing damage to the host machine, operating system, or network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A stack of security software solutions and tools that allow organizations to orchestrate disparate internal and external tools which feed pre-built automation playbooks that respond to events or alert analysts if an event meets a certain threshold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A term of legal art that defines the types of data and circumstances that permits a third party to directly or indirectly identify an individual with collected data.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A security architecture that incorporates the cloud shared responsibility model, a vendor provided security stack, an SD-WAN abstraction layer, and network peering with one or more of the big content providers and their associated fiber networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 The practice of emulating known adversary behavior against an organization's actual defensive posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A layer seven security orchestration platform deployed at the boundary between internal workloads slash data storage and untrusted sources that blocks incoming and outgoing network traffic with rules that tie applications to the authenticated user and provides most of the traditional security stack functions in one device or software application.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

A network designed to obfuscate the location of a cyber adversary's command and control server by manipulating the domain name system, or DNS, in a way that rotates the associated IP address among large numbers of compromised hosts in a botnet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The process of converting plain text into an unrecognizable form or secret code to hide its true meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Software or hardware that records the computer keys pressed by a user.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Digital assets that are cryptographically protected on a blockchain and contain unique identification codes and metadata that makes them one of a kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The use of two or more verification methods to gain access to an account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A programming technique where the developer doesn't specify each step of the algorithm in code, but instead teaches the algorithm to learn from the experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The process of turning raw information into intelligence products that leaders use to make decisions with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cloud-based software distribution method where app infrastructure, performance, and security are maintained by a service provider and accessible to users, typically via subscription, from any device connected to the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cryptographic hack that relies on guessing all possible letter combinations of a targeted password until the correct codeword is discovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A process of converting encrypted data into something that a human or computer can understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cyber attack designed to impair or eliminate access to online services or data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer’s Random Access Memory or RAM during the reboot process in order to steal sensitive data.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On-demand pay-as-you-go Internet delivered compute, storage, infrastructure, and security services that are partially managed by the cloud provider and partially managed by the customer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat to describe hacker groups or campaigns normally, but not always, associated with nation state cyber espionage and continuous low-level cyber conflict operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the intrusion kill chain model, a technique where the hacker compromises sites commonly visited by members of a targeted community in order to deliver a malicious payload to the intended victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices