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7:00

Web 3.0 (noun)

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2022/07/12

The potential next evolution of the worldwide web that decentralizes interaction between users and content away from the big silicon valley social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and towards peer-to-peer interaction using blockchain as the underlying technology. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/web-30 Audio reference link: “What Elon Musk Just Said about Metaverse, Web3 and Neuralink,” By Clayton Morris, Crypto News Daily, YouTube. 2 December

9:16

Encore: Log4j vulnerability (noun)

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2022/07/05

An open source Java-based software tool available from the Apache Software Foundation designed to log security and performance information. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/log4j Audio reference link: “CISA Director: The LOG4J Security Flaw Is the ‘Most Serious’ She’s Seen in Her Career,” by Eamon Javers (CNBC) and Jen Easterly (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Director) YouTube, 20 December 20 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

11:55

Identity access management (IAM) (noun)

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2022/06/28

A set of solutions for ensuring that the right users can only access the appropriate resources. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-and-access-management Audio reference link: “The Wrath of Khan (1982) ‘Kirk’s Response,’” by Russell, YouTube, 16 May 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:23

Policy Orchestration (noun)

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2022/06/21

The deployment of rules to the security stack across all data islands, cloud, SaaS applications, data centers, and mobile devices designed to manifest an organization's cybersecurity first principle strategies of zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resilience, and risk forecasting. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/policy-orchestration Audio reference link: “The Value of Using Security Policy Orchestration and Automation,” by David Monahan, uploaded by EMAResearch,

5:36

Abstraction layer (noun)

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2022/06/14

A process of hiding the complexity of a system by providing an interface that eases its manipulation. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/abstraction-layer Audio reference link: “What Is Abstraction in Computer Science,” by Codexpanse, YouTube, 29 October 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:45

Identity Fabric (noun)

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2022/06/07

A set of services for managing identity and access management, or IAM across all of an organization's data islands. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-fabric Audio reference link: “Leadership Compass Identity Fabrics - Analyst Chat 126,” by KuppingerCole, YouTube, 30 May 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:46

Intrusion Kill Chain (noun)

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2022/05/31

A cybersecurity first principle strategy focused on disrupting known adversary activity at one of several phases of an attack sequence. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/intrusion-kill-chain Audio reference link: "Cybersecurity Days: A Network Defender's Future," by Rick Howard, Integrated Cyber Conference, Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD), YouTube, 26 October 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:16

Identity Orchestration (noun)

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2022/05/24

A subset of security orchestration, the management of identities across an organization's set of digital islands. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-orchestration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:47

Diamond Model (noun)

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2022/05/17

A cyber threat intelligence analysis model that defines relationship pairs between four core components in the shape of a diamond of adversary playbook activity across the intrusion kill chain: the adversary, their capability, the infrastructure used or attacked, and the victim. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/diamond-model Audio reference link: “Diamond Presentation v2 0: Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis – Applied to Star Wars’ Battles,” Andy Pendergrast and Wade

7:43

MITRE ATT&CK (noun)

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2022/05/10

A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:30

DevOps (noun)

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2022/05/03

The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/devops Audio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:25

Waterfall Software Development Method (noun)

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2022/04/26

A software development model that relies on a series of sequential steps that flow into each other, like a series of waterfalls. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/waterfall-software-development Audio reference link: “Creating Video Games - Agile Software Development,” by Sara Verrilli, MIT OpenCourseWare, YouTube, 10 December 2015 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:45

Agile Software Development Method (noun)

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2022/04/19

A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-development Audio reference link: "Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe," John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference, YouTube, 25 June 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:45

Pegasus (noun)

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2022/04/12

The flagship product of the controversial Israeli spyware vendor, the NSO Group, use for remotely hacking mobile devices, most notably iPhones, via zero-click exploits. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pegasus Audio reference link:“Cybersecurity beyond the Headlines: A Conversation with Journalist Nicole Perlroth,” Kristen Eichensehr, and Nicole Perlroth, University of Virginia School of Law, YouTube, 14 February 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

8:27

Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting...

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2022/04/05

An open source email authentication protocol designed to prevent emails, spoofing in phishing, business email compromise or BEC, and other email-based attacks. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pegasus Audio reference link:"Global Cyber Alliance's Phil Reitinger talks DMARC adoption" “Global Cyber Alliance’s Phil Reitinger Talks DMARC Adoption.” YouTube Video. YouTube, April 27, 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:46

Shields Up (noun)

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2022/03/29

A condition announced by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to draw attention to a temporary period of high alert, associated with expectation of a connected wave of cyberattacks prompted by either a widespread vulnerability or an unusually active and capable threat actor. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/shields-up Audio reference link: “Star Trek II Wrath of Khan - Reliant vs Enterprise; First Clash” YouTube, YouTube, 11 Apr. 2015, Learn more

5:43

Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) (noun)

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2022/03/22

A prescriptive open source software security maturity model designed to guide strategies tailored to an organization’s specific risks. Audio reference link: "OWASPMSP - Pravir Chandra: Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM)." by Pravir Chandra, OWASP MSP, 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:17

Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) (noun)

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2022/03/15

An open standard for hardware authentication tokens that use the universal serial bus, or USB, near-field communications, or NFCs, or Bluetooth to communicate one factor in a two-factor authentication exchange. Cyberwire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/u2f Audio reference link: “Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History,” by Thomas Rid, Published by W. W. Norton Company, 21 November 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10:17

adversary group naming (noun)

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2022/03/08

A cyber threat intelligence best practice of assigning arbitrary labels to collections of hacker activity across the intrusion kill chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:09

BSIMM (noun)

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2022/03/01

A descriptive model that provides a baseline of observed software security initiatives and activities from a collection of volunteer software development shops. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/bsimm Audio reference link: “OWASP AppSecUSA 2014 - Keynote: Gary McGraw - BSIMM: A Decade of Software Security.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 19, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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