A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Jericho’s Cybersecurity Glossary

Welcome to Jericho’s Cyberthreat Glossary, where you’ll find
definitions and explanations for most things cyber-related.

A

Acceptable Risk

Access Complexity

Access Control List (ACL)

Access Point (AP)

Account Lockout

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)

Antivirus

Asset Management

Attack Vector

Authentication

Authorization

Availability

B

Back Door

Biometric Authentication

Birthday Attack

Blacklist

Blue Team

Botnet

Brute Force Attack

Bug Bounty

C

CAPTCHA

Certificate Authority

Clickjacking

Cloud Access Security Broker

Cloud Computing

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

D

Data Encryption

Data Loss Prevention

Denial of Service (DoS)

Digital Certificate

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

DNS Spoofing

Domain Name System

Doxxing

Drive-by Attacks

E

Eavesdropping Attacks

Endpoint Detection and Response

Endpoint Security

Ethical Hacking

Exploit

F

False Positive

File Integrity Monitoring

Firewall

G

Generative AI

Grey Hat Hacker

H

Hashing

Honeypot

I

Incident Response

Insider Threat

Internet of Things

Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

J

K

Keylogger

L

Least Privilege

M

Malvertising

Malware

Man-in-the-middle (MitM) Attack

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

N

Network Access Control

O

Onion Routing

Overflow Attack

P

Packet Sniffing

Password Attack

Patch Management

Penetration Testing

Phishing

Privilege Escalation

Public Key Infrastructure

Q

Quid Pro Quo Attack

R

Ransomware

Red Team

Risk Assessment

Rootkit

S

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Security Awareness and Training

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Session Hijacking

SMS-Phishing

Social Engineering

Spear Phishing

Spoofing

Spyware

SQL Injection

Supply Chain Attack

T

Threat Hunting

Threat Intelligence

Tokenization

Trojan Horse

Typosquatting

U

URL Interpretation

User Interface Spoofing

V

Virtual Private Network

Voice Phishing

Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment

W

Web Attacks

Whaling

Worm

X

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Attacks

Y

Z

Zero-Day Vulnerability