Cybersecurity Glossary
Essential terminology for navigating the digital landscape.
Brute Force Attack
A trial-and-error method used by attackers to decode encrypted data such as passwords by exhausting all possible combinations.
Phishing
A social engineering attack where a fraudulent message is designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information or deploying malicious software.
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
An architecture that abstracts different, distinguishable layers of a network to make it agile and flexible, separating the control plane from the data forwarding plane.