anomoly detection
The practice of looking for and recognizing unusual behavior against the background of an established baseline as a means of detecting hostile or otherwise dangerous activity in a network or...
anonymizer
Any tool that attempts to make Internet activity anonymous or untraceable, normally a proxy server interposed between a client device and the rest of the Internet. Such a proxy server...
anti-malware
Any resource—software, device, process, etc.—that protects systems or networks against some form of malware.
Apple Lockdown Mode
An optional security mode for macOS and iOS that reduces the attack surface of the operating system by disabling certain commonly attacked features.
application
Software designed to perform certain specific tasks (such as a word processor).
APT side hustle
A nation-state hacking group’s practice of funding its own activities through cybercrime or cyber mercenary work. Compare cyber privateering.
Asymmetric Encryption
Data encryption where the coding key (the public key) and the corresponding decryption key (private key) are different. It is mathematically impossible to derive the private key from the public...