L1 Cache
A hardware concept related to CPU, memory, or endpoint/server architecture.
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L2 Cache
A hardware concept related to CPU, memory, or endpoint/server architecture.
View →L2TP
A network mechanism used to route, encapsulate, filter, or make IP traffic resilient.
View →L3 Cache
A hardware concept related to CPU, memory, or endpoint/server architecture.
View →LACP
A protocol that combines several Ethernet links into a logical link.
View →LAN
Local network connecting the equipment of a home, office or site.
View →Large Language Model (LLM)
A machine-learning model trained on large corpora to predict and generate language or code sequences.
View →Last-Modified Header
A Web mechanism used in HTTP exchanges, application security, or TLS validation.
View →Latency Storage
A storage concept used to transport, present, organize, or optimize blocks and data objects.
View →Lateral Movement
The movement of an attacker from a compromised machine or account to other network resources.
View →Lazy Zeroed Thick
A VMware disk whose space is reserved but whose blocks are initialized when they are first used.
View →LDAP
A protocol for interviewing and modifying a directory service.
View →LDAPS
The use of LDAP over TLS to encrypt authentication and directory queries.
View →Least Privilege
The principle of giving only the necessary rights for the necessary period.
View →Let’s Encrypt
A public automated certificate authority providing free TLS certificates.
View →Lifecycle Workflows Entra
A Microsoft Entra ID Governance service that automates identity tasks based on user lifecycle events.
View →Lingering Object
An obsolete AD object present on a domain controller while it has been deleted elsewhere.
View →Link Monitor FortiGate
A mechanism for overseeing a network link or gateway.
View →Linux Container (LXC)
A virtualization mechanism used to present or manage virtual-machine or cluster resources.
View →Linux Namespace
A Linux mechanism from the kernel, systemd, filesystem, or identity-management stack.
View →Linux PAM
PAM provides a modular layer of authentication under Linux.
View →Linux Root Account
The superuser account has all the privileges on a Linux system.
View →Linux Swap
A disk space used as an extension of virtual memory.
View →Litigation Hold
An Exchange function that keeps the elements of a box even if they are deleted by the user.
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