Welcome to my Cybersecurity Dictionary! This resource is designed to provide you with a comprehensive and easily understandable guide to the world of cybersecurity. With the increasing importance of the digital realm, cybersecurity has become a crucial aspect of our everyday lives. In this dictionary, you will find definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts related to safeguarding digital systems, data, and networks from cyber threats. Whether you’re a cybersecurity professional or just starting to explore this field, my dictionary aims to be your go-to reference for all things cybersecurity. Explore the entries from A to Z to enhance your understanding of this ever-evolving domain.
P
- Packet capture
- Packet sniffing
- Parrot
- Passive packet sniffing
- Password attack
- Patch update
- Penetration test
- Personally identifiable information
- Phishing
- Physical social engineering
- Ping of death
- Playbook
- Policy
- Port
- Port filtering
- Post-incident activity
- Potentially unwanted application
- Principle of least privilege
- Protected health information
- Proxy server
- Public key infrastructure
S
- Salting
- Scareware
- Secure shell
- Security audit
- Security controls
- Security ethics
- Security frameworks
- Security hardening
- SIEM
- SOC
- SOAR
- Sensitive data
- Sensitive personally identifiable information
- Separation of duties
- Session hijacking
- Shared responsibility
- Shell
- Signature
- Signature analysis
- Smishing
- Smurf attack
- Social engineering
- Social media phishing
- Spear phishing
- Splunk Cloud
- Spyware
- SQL injection
- Stakeholder
- STAR method
- Stored XSS attack
- Supply-chain attack
- Suricata
- Synchronize (SYN) flood attack
- Symmetric encryption
