Exploit

When a vulnerability is taken advantage of to cause intended consequences.

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Event

In terms of security, an event is something that is interesting that you believe is worth recording for later reference or reporting.

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Ethical Hacker

An ethical hacker is a security expert who, with the authorisation of an organisation, penetrates their computer system, network, application or other...

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End user device (EUD)

These are your smartphones, laptops and tablets that connect to your organisation’s network.

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Encryption Algorithm

This is the mathematical formula that is used to encrypt data.

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Encryption

To encrypt information is to make it unreadable to all except for those with the key to decode it.

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Egress Filtering

This is the process of filtering outbound network traffic in order to prevent internal data from leaving the organisation’s systems.

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