Cybersecurity

Threat Intelligence

Evidence-based knowledge about existing or emerging threats to an organisation's digital assets and infrastructure.

Vulnerability Assessment

The process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritising security vulnerabilities in systems and applications.

Penetration Testing

A simulated cyberattack against a system to evaluate the security of its defences and identify exploitable vulnerabilities.

Red Team

A group of security professionals who simulate real-world attacks to test an organisation's defensive capabilities.

Blue Team

A group of security professionals who defend against both real attackers and simulated attacks from red teams.

Purple Team

A collaborative security approach combining red team attack knowledge with blue team defensive capabilities.

Intrusion Prevention System

A network security technology that examines network traffic to detect and prevent vulnerability exploits.

Ransomware

Malicious software that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key.

Malware

Malicious software designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to computer systems.

Phishing

A social engineering attack that uses fraudulent communications to trick recipients into revealing sensitive information.

Spear Phishing

A targeted phishing attack directed at specific individuals or organisations using personalised deceptive content.

Zero-Day Vulnerability

A software security flaw unknown to the vendor that can be exploited before a patch is available.

Technology that automates security operations by orchestrating tools and processes for incident response.

Security solutions that deploy decoy assets such as fake servers, credentials, and data to detect, misdirect, and analyse attackers who have breached perimeter defences.

An auditing framework that evaluates the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of service organisations.

A model describing the stages of a cyberattack from reconnaissance through data exfiltration.

An authentication method requiring two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource.

Automated tools that continuously assess cloud infrastructure configurations against security best practices and compliance requirements, identifying and remediating misconfigurations.

An international standard for information security management systems specifying requirements for establishing and maintaining security.

Security solutions focused on detecting and responding to identity-based attacks such as credential theft, privilege escalation, and compromised service accounts.