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Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM)
Adversary-in-the-middle attacks intercept or manipulate authentication exchanges, potentially stealing session tokens and bypassing some MFA flows.
View definitionAttack Surface
All the points by which a system can be attacked.
View definitionAttack Surface Management (ASM)
Attack surface management continuously inventories and assesses exposed assets, services, and weaknesses that attackers might exploit.
View definitionBitLocker
Microsoft's Windows disk encryption feature.
View definitionBlue Team
A blue team defends an organization by monitoring threats, investigating incidents, and improving security controls.
View definitionBootkit
A bootkit is malicious code that compromises the boot process to establish persistence before the operating system fully starts.
View definitionBreach and Attack Simulation (BAS)
Breach and attack simulation tools safely emulate adversary techniques to assess detection and prevention controls.
View definitionBrute-Force Attack
An attack that tries many combinations of passwords until it finds the right one.
View definitionBusiness Email Compromise (BEC)
Business email compromise uses impersonation or compromised accounts to deceive employees into transferring money or sensitive information.
View definitionCAPEC
CAPEC is MITRE's catalog of common attack patterns describing methods adversaries use to exploit weaknesses.
View definitionCASB
CASB is a concept or mechanism used in cybersecurity to control the use of cloud services and data exchanged
View definitionChain of Custody
Chain of custody documents who collected, handled, transferred, and stored evidence to preserve its integrity and traceability.
View definitionCommand and Control (C2)
Command and control refers to channels attackers use to issue instructions to compromised systems and receive information.
View definitionContinuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
Continuous Threat Exposure Management systematically discovers, prioritizes, validates, and reduces exploitable security exposures.
View definitionCredential Access
Credential access describes attacker techniques for obtaining passwords, tokens, hashes, or other authentication material.
View definitionCredential stuffing
An attack that tests on a stolen identifier service during other data leaks.
View definitionCVE
A public identifier assigned to a known security vulnerability.
View definitionCVSS
A rating system used to express the technical severity of a vulnerability.
View definitionCWE
Common Weakness Enumeration is a catalog of software and hardware weakness types used to classify potential vulnerabilities.
View definitionCyber Kill Chain
a cybersecurity model that breaks an attack into successive stages from reconnaissance through actions on objectives
View definitionData Exfiltration
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of sensitive information from an organization to an external destination.
View definitionDefense Evasion
Defense evasion covers techniques attackers use to avoid detection or bypass security monitoring and protective controls.
View definitionDLP
A set of controls to prevent the leakage of sensitive data.
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