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Code and data repositories that don't protect against unauthorized changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An attack technique that leverages an unprotected web server as a proxy for attackers to send commands through to other computers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The absence of telemetry that could help network defenders detect and respond to hostile attempts to compromise a system.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-identification-and-authentication-failure Audio reference link: “Mr. Robot Hack - Password Cracking - Episode 1.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 21, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An open source Java-based software tool available from the Apache Software Foundation designed to log security and performance information.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/log4j Audio reference link: “CISA Director: The LOG4J Security Flaw Is the ‘Most Serious’ She’s Seen in Her Career,” by Eamon Javers (CNBC) and Jen Easterly (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state of a web application when it's vulnerable to attack due to an insecure configuration.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-security-misconfiguration Audio reference link: “What Is the Elvish Word for Friend?” Quora, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A broad OWASP Top 10 software development category representing missing, ineffective, or unforeseen security measures. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-insecure-design Audio reference link: “Oceans Eleven Problem Constraints Assumptions.” by Steve Jones, YouTube, 4 November 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A broad class of attack vectors, where an attacker supplies input to an applications command interpreter that results in unanticipated functionality.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-injection Audio reference link: “APPSEC Cali 2018 - Taking on the King: Killing Injection Vulnerabilities” YouTube Video. YouTube, March 19, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Code that fails to protect sensitive information.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-cryptographic-failure Audio reference link: Vandana Verma. “OWASP Spotlight - Project 10 - Top10.” YouTube Video. YouTube, January 4, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The prevention of the first part of an intrusion kill chain model exploitation technique, where the hacker steals valid logging credentials from a targeted victim.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/account-takeover-prevention Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The process of proactively searching through networks to detect and isolate security threats, rather than relying on security solutions or services to detect those threats.  CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/threat-hunting Audio reference link: “My ‘Aha!" Moment - Methods, Tips, & Lessons Learned in Threat Hunting - sans Thir Summit 2019.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Feb. 2020. L...

The continuous practice of identifying classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities within this. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/vulnerability-management Audio reference link: “Vulnerability Scanning - Comptia Security+ sy0-501 - 1.5.” YouTube, YouTube, 11 Nov. 2017, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardware and software designed to detect and prevent cyber adversary campaigns that target industrial operations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The difference between organizational employee job requirements and the available skillsets in the potential employee pool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The use of technology to radically improve the performance or reach of the business.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cloud services intended for cyber criminals and other bad actors designed to obstruct law enforcement and other kinds of government investigations, and to provide some protection against competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The practice of securing a device that connects to a network in order to facilitate communication with other devices on the same or different networks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Biden's May, 2021 formal compliance mandate for federal civilian executive branch agencies, or FCEBs, to include specific shortterm and longterm deadlines designed to enhance the federal government's digital defense posture.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phase of a typical cyber adversary group's attack sequence, after the initial compromise and usually after the group has established a command and control channel, where the group moves through the victims network by compromising as many systems as it can, by looking for the data, it has come to steal or to destroy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A public list sponsored by the US government and designed to uniquely identify, without the need to manually cross- reference, all the known software vulnerabilities in the world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices