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.NET Enterprise Server
.NET Framework Configuration Tool
Aaron's Law
Access
Access Code
Access Control
Access Control Entry (ACE)
Access Control List (ACL)
Access Control List (Microsoft) (ACL)
Account Hijacking
Accreditation
Active Attack
Active Directory (AD)
Active Impostor Acceptance
Active Reconnaissance
Ad-Aware
Address Resolution Protocol Poisoning (ARP Poisoning)
Administrative Domain (AD)
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
Adware
Air Gap
America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
Anna Kournikova Virus
Annoyware
Anonymity Network
Anonymization
Anonymizer
Anonymous (Computing)
ANSI Bomb
Anti-Malware
Anti-Phishing Service
Anti-Spam
Anti-Spyware (apyware)
Anti-Virus Killer (AV Killer)
Anti-Virus Scanner
Anti-Virus Software
Application Client Container (ACC)
Application Gateway
Application Management (AM)
ARccOS
Armored Virus
Atbash
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability (ACID)
Attack
Authenticated Post Office Protocol (APOP)
Authentication
Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA)
Authentication Center (AuC)
Authentication Header (AH)
Authorization
Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)
Automatic Fall-over
Automatic Identification (Auto ID)
Automatic Online Backup
Availability
Back-Hack
Backdoor
Backup
Backup on the Web
Bastion Host
Bayesian Filter
Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2011
Betamax Standard (Beta)
Big Mother
Big Red Switch (BRS)
Binder
Biometric Security
Biometrics
BIOS Rootkit
Black Hat Hacker
Blackholing
Blended Threat
Blind Drop
Blowfish
Bluebugging
Bluejacking
Bluesnarfing
Boot Sector Virus
Botnet
Botnet Herder
Bread-and-Butter Application
Broadcast Flag
Bropia Worm
Browser Hijacker
Browser Modifier
Brute Force Attack
Buffer Overflow
Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Caller ID Spoofing
Card Skimming
Carnivore
CCleaner
Cell Phone Spying
Cellular Phone Hacking
Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
Certification Authority (CA)
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Certified Output Protection Protocol (COPP)
Challenge-Response Authentication
Checksum
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
Chinese Wall
Choke Worm
Cipher
Circuit-Level Gateway
Clean Room Design
Clickjack Attack
Clipboard Hijacking Attack
Clipper Chip
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Cloud Storage Gateway
Cloud Testing
CloudAudit
Code Access Security (CAS)
Code Signing
Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
Communications Security (COMSEC)
Comodo Dragon
Compartmented Security Mode
Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers And Humans Apart (CAPTCHA)
Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
COMPUter SECurity (COMPUSEC)
Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
Conficker
Confidentiality
Configuration Management (CM)
Constrictor
Consumerization of IT
Contamination
Content Filtering
Content Spoofing
Contingency Plan
Control Framework
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
Cookie
Cookie Poisoning
Cookie Theft
Copy Protection
Countermeasure
Covert Channel
Crack
Cracker
Credit Freeze
Creeper Virus
Crimeware
Crisis/Morcut
Critical Path Method (CPM)
Critical Security Parameter (CSP)
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Crudware
Cryptanalysis
Cryptoanarchism
Cryptographic Hash Function
Cryptographic Key
Cryptography
CSA Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
Cyber Pearl Harbor
Cyber Range
Cyber-Warrior
Cyberattack
Cybercriminal
Cyberforensics
Cyberlibel
Cyberluring
Cybersecurity
Cyberspying
Cyberstalking
Cyberveillance
Cyberwarfare
Data Backup
Data Breach
Data Center Management
Data Corruption
Data De-Identification
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
Data Exfiltration
Data Forensics
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Data Obfuscation (DO)
Data Perturbation
Data Replay
Data Security
Data Shadow
Data Vaulting
Data-Sending Trojan
Database Authentication
Database Encryption and Decryption
De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS)
Dead Body Spam
Decryption
Deep Packet Capture (DPC)
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
Defacement
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense In Depth
Degradation of Service Attack
Denial-of-Service Attack (DoS)
Deobfuscate
Derivative Work Right
Desktop Administration (DA)
Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Dictionary Attack
Digital Certificate
Digital Envelope
Digital Espionage
Digital Fingerprinting
Digital Forensics
Digital Identity
Digital Invisible Ink
Digital Rights
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Digital Signature
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
Digital Watermark
Digital Watermarking
Directory Traversal
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
DNS Cache Poisoning
DNS Hijacking
Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX)
DoD Directive 8570 (DoDD 8570)
Domain Hijacking
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
Domain Security Policy
Dongle
Dot-Con
Doxing
Drive-By Download
Drive-By Pharming
DRM-Free
Dropper
Dual-Homed Host
Dumpster Diving
Duqu
Dynamic Virtual Private Network (DVPN)
E-commerce Trustmark
Early Launch Anti-Malware (ELAM)
Electro-Optical Fingerprint Recognition
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Electronic Patient Release of Information Form
Electronic Signatures in Global National Commerce Act (ESIGN)
Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
Email Encryption
Email Hoax
Email Signature
Email Spoofing
Emission Security (EMSEC)
Encapsulation
Encoding
Encrypted Web
Encryption
Endpoint Authentication
Endpoint Security
Enterprise Application Security
Enterprise Search
Error Correction
Error Detection
Ethical Hacker
European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD)
Even Parity
Events Per Second (EPS)
Evil Twin
Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Exploit
Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL)
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Facebook Bot
Facebook Immune System (FIS)
Facial Recognition Software
False Acceptance
False Acceptance Ratio (FAR)
False Rejection
Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC)
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNET)
Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP)
Federated Identity Manager (FIM)
Federated Network Identity
Federation Against Software Theft (FAST)
Feistel Network
File-Infecting Virus
Financial Information Exchange (FIX)
Financial Malware
Financial Modernization Act of 1999
Firesheep
Firewall
Firewall Bank Account
Flame Virus
Forever Day Bug
Forward Secret HTTPS
Four-Way Handshake
Fraud over Internet Protocol (FoIP)
Freedom of Information
FTP Trojan
Full-Disk Encryption (FDE)
Ghost Banning
Ghostball Virus
Global Threat Bot (GTbot)
GNUnet
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA)
Graylisting
Grokster
Hack
Hacker
Hacking
Hacking Tool
Hacktivism
Hamming Code
Hard Disk Loading
Hard Drive Encryption
Hardening
Hardware Authenticator
Hardware Identification (HWID)
Hashing
Health Care Data Encryption
Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule (HIPAA Privacy Rule)
Heuristic Filtering
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
High-Energy Radio Frequency Weapon (HERF)
Hijackware
Homepage Hijacking
HoneyMonkey
Honeynet
Honeypot
Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)
Hot Site
HTTP Proxy
Hybrid Encryption
Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
I2P
Identification, Friend Or Foe (IFF)
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Identity Token
IEEE 802.11i
IEEE 802.1X
iJack
ILOVEYOU Virus
Image Spam
Impostor
Infected File
Information Assurance (IA)
Information Hiding
Information Privacy
Information Security (IS)
Information Security Audit
Information Security Policy
Information Sharing
Information Systems Security (INFOSEC)
Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)
Initialization Vector
Insider Attack
Instant Messaging Worm (IM Worm)
Integrated Threat Management (ITM)
Integrity
Internal Attack
Internal Nonhostile Structured Threat (INS Threat)
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
Internet
Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)
Internet Crime
Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Internet Protocol Hijacking (IP Hijacking)
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Internet Relay Chat Worm (IRC Worm)
Internet Security
Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server)
Internet Transit
Internet Worm
Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Intrusion Signature
Inverted Network
IP Spoofing
IP Storage (IPS)
IT Health Care
J2EE Application Deployer and Administrator
Jammer
Java Access Control List (Java ACL)
Jerusalem Virus
Kelvir Worm
Kevin Mitnick
Key Escrow
Key Fob
Key Length
Keylogger
Keystroke Logger
Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
L0phtcrack
LAN Manager Hash (LANMAN Hash)
Layered Authentication
Leech
Licensing Collective
Lights Out Data Center
Likejacking
Lock
Logic Bomb
Logical Access
Lotus Notes
LulzSec (Lulsec)
Machine Binding
Macro Virus
Malicious Code
Malicious Software (Malware)
Malvertising
Man-in-the-Middle Attack (MITM)
Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
Manchester Encoding
Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
Masquerade Attack
Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP)
Melissa Virus
Message Digest
Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC)
Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP)
Mobile Code
Mobile Phone Virus
Mode of Attack
Monitoring Software
Morris Worm
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multihomed
Multipartite Virus
National Cyber Security Division (NCSD)
National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)
National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)
National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD)
NERC CIP
Netbus
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Network Neutrality (Net Neutrality)
Network Security
Network Security Protocols
Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)
Network-based Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS)
NIST 800-53
Nonrepudiation
Nuker
OAuth
OAuth 2.0
Obfuscator
Odd Parity
Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C)
Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP)
Online Fraud Protection
Open Source Hardening Project
Open-Source Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
Operating System Security (OS Security)
Operation Shady Rat
Original Equipment Manufacturer Unbundling (OEM Unbundling)
Pacemaker Hacker
Packet Capture
Packet Filtering
Page Hijacking
Pagejacking
Parasiteware
Parity Check
Passive Attack
Passive File Transfer Protocol (PASV FTP)
Passive Reconnaissance
Password
Password Cracking
Password Protection
Password Salting
Password Sniffer
Patch
Payload
Penetration Testing (Pen-Testing)
Penetration Testing Tool
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
Personal Identification Number (PIN)
Personal Identity Verification Card (PIV Card)
Personally Identifiable Financial Information (PIFI)
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Phage Virus
Pharming
Phishing
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 3.0 (PHP 3)
Phreaking
Physical Access
Ping Of Death
Ping Pong Virus
Piracy
Pod Slurping
Polymorphic Virus
Port Address Translation (PAT)
Port Knocking
Port Scanning
Port Triggering
Port-to-Application Mapping
Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)
Pretexting
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Principle of Least Privilege (POLP)
Privacy International (PI)
Privacy Policy
Private Key
Privoxy
Product Activation
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Provisioning (Computer Networking)
Provisioning (Computing)
Provisioning (Telecommunications)
Proxy Server
Public Key Cryptography (PKC)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Pulsing Zombie
Ransomware
RC4
RC5
RC6
Real-Time Blackhole List (RBL)
Real-Time Location Service (RTLS)
RedBrowser Trojan
Remote Access Trojan (RAT)
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS)
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Render Right
Reputation-Based Security
Reverse Domain Hijacking
Rich Internet Application (RIA)
Right Holder
Right-Hand Side Blacklist (RHSBL)
Rogue Access Point (Rogue AP)
Rogue Wireless Device
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Role-Based Security
Rootkit
Router Firmware
Routing
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
RSA Encryption
RSA Identification Verification for Health Care
Same Origin Policy (SOP)
Sandbox
Sandboxing
Sasser Worm
Scareware
Script Kiddie
Scumware
Secret Key
Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
Secure MIME (S/MIME)
Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND Protocol)
Secure Real-Time Protocol (Secure RTP or SRTP)
Secure Server
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Secure Sockets Layer Certificate (SSL Certificate)
Security Architecture
Security as a Service (SecaaS or SaaS)
Security Breach
Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL)
Security Incident
Security Information Management (SIM)
Security Policy
Security Requirements Traceability Matrix (SRTM)
Security Token
Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
Sensitive Information
Serial Copy Management System (SCMS)
Session Hijacking
Shared Ethernet Adapter
Shoulder Surfing
Sidejacking
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Skunkworks
Slimeware
Smart Badging
Smart Chip
SMS Phishing
Smurf Attack
Smurfing
Sniffer
Snowshoe Spamming
Social Engineering
Socialbot
Softlifting
Software Architecture
Software Piracy
Software Protection Dongle
Software Security
SoFunny Worm
Space Shifting
Spam
Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS)
Spam Blocker
Spam Filter
Spam Over Internet Telephony (SPIT)
Spam Trap
Spamming
Spamware
Spear Phishing
Spoof Website
Spoofing
Spyware
SQL Injection
SQL Slammer
SRWare Iron
Stealth Virus
Steganography
Stuxnet
Subsidiary Rights
Super Cookie
Superbill
SURBL
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
Symmetric Encryption
SYN Attack
Targeted Attack
Teardrop Attack
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
The Onion Router (Tor)
Threat
Tiger Team
Traceroute
Transcoding
Transport Right
Triple DES
Trojan Horse
Trojan Popureb
Trust Anchor
Trusted PC (TC)
Tunneling
Tunneling Virus
Turing Number (TN)
Twishing
Two-Factor Authentication
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)
Uberveillance
Unified Threat Management (UTM)
University-Based Training (UBT)
Unsafe
Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE)
Unstructured Threat
Usenet Death Penalty (UDP)
User Identification (User ID)
User-Level Security
Username
Utility Right
Van Eck Phreaking
Virtual Firewall
Virtual Honeypot
Virtual Machine Escape
Virus
Virus Signature
Vishing
Voice Over Internet Protocol Caller Identification (VoIP Caller ID)
Vulnerability
Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation
Vulnerability Scanning
Wardialing
Warm Server
Web Application Security
Web Services Security (WS Security)
Website Filter
Whaling
White Hat Hacker
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2)
Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK)
Wi-Fi Protected Access-Enterprise (WPA Enterprise)
Windows File Protection (WFP)
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Wireless Local Area Network Security (WLAN Security)
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
Witty Worm
Worm
Wrapper
XSS Hole
Zero-Day Exploit
Zero-Day Threat
Zombie Network
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