Cybersecurity Glossary Terms & Definitions

What Is Enterprise Cybersecurity?

What Is Enterprise Cybersecurity?

Enterprise cybersecurity is a comprehensive strategy of technologies, policies, and processes designed to protect large-scale corporate networks, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and digital assets from sophisticated cyber threats.

What is a Enterprise Cybersecurity?
What Is An Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?

What Is An Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a network monitoring tool designed to observe traffic flows, system activity, and application behavior for known threats, suspicious patterns, and policy violations.

What is a IDS?
What Is a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)?

What Is a Managed Security Service Provider?

A managed security service provider (MSSP) is a third-party organization that delivers outsourced cybersecurity monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and security device management on behalf of client organizations.

What is a MSSP?
What Is a Secure Web Gateway (SWG)?

What Is a Secure Web Gateway (SWG)?

A secure web gateway is a network security control positioned between your users and the internet, inspecting outbound and inbound web traffic to enforce acceptable-use policies and block known threats before they reach your endpoints.

What is a SWG?
What Are Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)?

What Are Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)?

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) is a network security control that monitors traffic in real time and automatically blocks threats inline.

What is a IPS?
What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

Data loss prevention (DLP) is a set of technologies, processes, and policies designed to detect, monitor, and prevent unauthorized access, use, or transmission of sensitive data across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

What is a DLP?
What is a Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS)?

Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS)

Network Intrusion Prevention Systems stop threats in real time before they reach your infrastructure.

What is a NIPS?
What is modern cyber threat protection?

Modern Cyber Threat Protection

Modern cyber threat protection stops attacks before they reach your network.

What is modern cyber threat protection?
What is a Next Generation Secure Web Gateway?

Next Generation Secure Web Gateway

A next generation secure web gateway (NG-SWG) is a cloud-native security control that protects against web threats and data loss.

What is a Next Generation Secure Web Gateway?
What is a Cloud Firewall?

Cloud Firewall

Cloud-based firewalls protect distributed workloads with software-driven network security.

What is a Cloud Firewall?
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