Technical Glossary

A

• Agent
• AI, Artificial Intelligence
• Anomalies
• API Gateway
• API Security
• API, Application Programming Interface
• Application Layer, Layer 7
• Application Security
• AWS Lambda
• AWS, Amazon Web Services
• Azure

C

• CASB, Coud Access Security Broker
• Changes
• CISO, Chief Information Security Officer
• Cloud
• CSO, Chief Security officer

D

• Data Link Layer, Layer 2
• Data Security
• DevOps
• DevSecOps

E

• EC2, Amazon EC2, Elastic Compute Cloud
• Endpoint

G

• GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• GraphQL
• gRPC
• Guid, Globally Unique Identifier

H

• HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

• IAM, Identity and Access Management
• Inline
• IoT (Internet of Things)
• IP, Internet Protocol

J

• JSON, JavaScript Object Notation

L

• Load Balancers

M

• Misconfiguration
• ML, Machine Learning

N

• Network Layer, Layer 3

O

• On-Prem, On-Premises
• OpenAPI
• OSI model, Open Systems Interconnection model
• Out of Band
• OWASP Top 10

P

• PCAP (Packet Capture)
• PCI, Payment Card Industry
• Physical Layer, Layer 1
• PII, Personally Identifiable Information
• Presentation Layer, Layer 6

R

• REST, RESTful API, Representational State Transfer

S

• SaaS, Software as a Service
• Serverless Architecture, Serverless Computing
• Session Layer, Layer 5
• SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol
• SSL, Secure Sockets Layer

T

• TCP, Transmission Control Protocol
• TCP/IP
• TLS, Transport Layer Security
• Transport Layer, Layer 4

U

• UDP, User Datagram Protocol

V

• Violations
• VM, Virtual Machine

W

• WAF, Web Application Firewall
• WebSocket API
• Wildcard SLL Certificate

X

• XML, Extensible Markup Language