Online privacy and cybersecurity glossary

A

• Access control list (ACL)
• AES encryption

B

• Bandwidth
• Biometric authentication
• Biometric data
• Blob storage

C

• Chipset
• Ciphertext
• Cloud database
• Code generator
• Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Credentials

D

• Dark Web
• Data analytics
• Data breach
• Data collection
• Data dictionary
• Data entry
• Data fabric
• Data lake
• Data mining
• Data validation
• Data warehouse
• Database management system (DBMS)
• Digital certificate
• Digital footprint
• Digital twin
• DNS
• DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
• DNS port
• DNS propagation
• DNS server
• DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions)

E

• Emulator
• End-to-end encryption (E2EE)
• Endpoint security

F

• Factory reset
• Firewall

G

H

I

• Identity and access management (IAM)
• Internet security
• ipconfig
• IPsec
• IPv4
• IT security

J

K

L

M

N

• Network interface card
• Network topology

O

• OpenSSH

P

• Password vault
• Pipeline
• Privacy policy
• Public IP

Q

R

• Random Access Memory (RAM)
• Reverse proxy

S

• Sextortion
• Static IP

T

• TLS handshake
• Two-factor authentication (2FA)

U

V

• VoIP

W

• Web3
• Webhook
• Webpage
• WireGuard

X

Y

Z

• Zip bomb

0-9

• 5G network