Archives: Glossary Terms

Chaos engineering

The resilience discipline of controlled stress-test experimentation in continuous integration or continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments to uncover systemic weaknesses.

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ChatGPT 

A conversational language model developed by the company OpenAI.

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CIRT

Cyber Incident Response Team (acronym).

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CISA

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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Clandestine

Illicit and hidden. A clandestine operation depends for its success upon not being detected, because if detected it would immediately be recognized for what it is. Landing a team of...

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Clickbait

Text designed to induce an Internet user to follow a link. It’s often scandalous or salacious, or it might appeal to greed, fear, or a desire for quick self improvement...

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Clickjacking

A cyberattack technique in which a user is induced to click on an apparently benign link that in fact carries them to a malicious site, installs malware, or performs some...

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Clone phishing 

A form of phihing in which a legitimate, delivered, email including an attachment or link has been copied and used to create an almost identical, but now malicious, copy or...

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Cloud computing

Internet-based computer storage and operations, conducted on the Internet as opposed to local devices.

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Cloud encryption

Encryption, by a cloud service, of a cloud service customer’s data.

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