Glossary of terms

At ISTARI, we believe that investing in collective wisdom and promoting knowledge sharing as a community can accelerate the path toward greater digital and business resilience. Organisations must value cyber skills and awareness in employees beyond those working in IT. Cyber resilience happens at an organisational level, so everyone needs to cultivate their cyber fluency.

We created the ISTARI cybersecurity lexicon with commonly used cybersecurity and related technology terms to serve both our clients and the broader public.

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A

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

C

Continuous Security Monitoring

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Resilience

Cybersecurity Executive Order

D

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

G

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

I

Incident Response

Indicators of Compromise

M

Managed Security

Managed Security Service Provider

N

Network Detection and Response

O

Operations Security

P

Penetration Testing

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Principle of Least Privilege

R

Red Team vs Blue Team

S

Security Information and Event Management

Security Posture Assessment

Security Programme Optimisation

Sensitive Information & Data

Social Engineering

Supply Chain Attack

T

Third-Party Cyber Risk Management

Threat Intelligence

Threat Modeling

Z

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