Online privacy and cybersecurity glossary
Comprehensive explanations of key privacy, VPN, and online protection concepts
Dictionary
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- Dark Web
- Data acquisition
- Data aggregation
- Data analytics
- Data at rest
- Data backup
- Data bank
- Data breach
- Data bus
- Data center design
- Data cloud
- Data collection
- Data definition language (DDL)
- Data dictionary
- Data driven
- Data entry
- Data exfiltration
- Data fabric
- Data governance framework
- Data integrity
- Data intelligence
- Data lake
- Data link layer
- Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Data mart
- Data masking
- Data migration
- Data mining
- Data preprocessing
- Data processor
- Data profiling
- Data redundancy
- Data scraping
- Data source
- Data sovereignty
- Data transfer
- Data validation
- Data warehouse
- Database management system (DBMS)
- Decryption
- Differential privacy
- Digital certificate
- Digital footprint
- Digital identity
- Digital trust
- Digital twin
- Digitalization
- Discretionary access control (DAC)
- DNS
- DNS cache
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
- DNS port
- DNS propagation
- DNS server
- DNS TTL
- DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions)
- Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
- Dynamic IP
- Dynamic website
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- Network access control (NAC)
- Network adapter
- Network administrator
- Network automation
- Network bridge
- Network infrastructure
- Network interface card
- Network layer
- Network management system
- Network operating system
- Network operations center (NOC)
- Network protocols
- Network topology
- Next-generation firewall
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- Script kiddie
- Scripting language
- Secure Boot
- Secure enclave
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- Security audit
- Security certificate
- Security monitoring
- Security operations center (SOC)
- Security policy
- Security software
- Session hijacking
- Sextortion
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- SSL encryption
- SSL VPN
- StartTLS
- Stateful firewall
- Static IP
- Stream cipher
- Substitution cipher
- Synthetic data
