PaaS
A managed cloud platform on which developers deploy their applications without administering all the infrastructure.
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PAM
A solution that controls and tracks the use of high privilege accounts.
View →Pass-Through Authentication (PTA)
A Microsoft Entra hybrid authentication method that validates a user's password directly against on-premises Active Directory through agents.
View →Passkey
A passwordless authentication credential based on a cryptographic key pair.
View →Password Hash Synchronization (PHS)
A Microsoft Entra or Microsoft 365 mechanism used to synchronize, authenticate, or govern identities.
View →Password Protection Entra
The Microsoft Entra feature that blocks weak or banned passwords using global and custom banned-password lists.
View →Password Spraying
An attack that tests a small number of common passwords on many accounts.
View →PAT
Form of NAT which differentiates several connections thanks to port numbers.
View →Patch Management
The process that organizes the testing and deployment of security and stability updates.
View →PATCH Method HTTP
A Web mechanism used in HTTP exchanges, application security, or TLS validation.
View →Penetration Test
A cybersecurity concept used to describe a threat, technique, control, or defensive process.
View →Performance SLA FortiGate
One measure SD-WAN availability and quality of a link.
View →Performance Tier Backup
A backup or recovery mechanism used to protect data and meet recovery objectives.
View →Persistence
A cybersecurity concept used to describe a threat, technique, control, or defensive process.
View →PFS
PFS limits the future impact of a compromise of private keys on previous sessions.
View →Phishing
A fraud technique that imitates an interlocutor or service in order to steal information or provoke action.
View →Phone Extension
An internal number assigned to a user, phone or service in a PBX.
View →PID Namespace
A Linux mechanism from the kernel, systemd, filesystem, or identity-management stack.
View →PIM
A function Entra ID allowing temporary activation of certain administrative roles.
View →PIM Dense Mode
A network mechanism used to route, encapsulate, filter, or make IP traffic resilient.
View →PIM Sparse Mode
A network mechanism used to route, encapsulate, filter, or make IP traffic resilient.
View →Ping
A simple network test to check if a destination is responding and to measure the return time.
View →PKCS#12
PKCS#12 is a format that can combine certificate, string and private key.
View →PKI
An infrastructure for managing certificates, public keys, certificate authorities, and revocation.
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