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Terms often used in discussions of cyber security, briefly defined. Your corrections, suggestions, and recommendations for additional entries are welcome: email the editor at [email protected].

Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management. One of OWASP's top-ten categories of application security risk. "OWASP identification and authentication failure" ...

Software or vulnerability testing that tests an application's internal structures as opposed to its functionality. White-box testing uses an internal perspective on, and knowledge of, the system under ...

A qualitative public framework for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities in software. The acronym CVSS is commonly used. "Common Vulnerability Scoring System" on the Word Notes podcast.

A defensive cyber operation carried out by US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) at the request of an allied nation. "hunt forward operation" on the Word Notes podcast.

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