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6:23

account takeover prevention (noun)

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2025/04/01

Enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The prevention of the first part of an intrusion kill chain model exploitation technique, where the hacker steals valid logging credentials from a targeted victim. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/account-takeover-prevention Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:01

threat hunting (noun)

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2025/03/25

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The process of proactively searching through networks to detect and isolate security threats, rather than relying on security solutions or services to detect those threats. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/threat-hunting Audio reference link: “My ‘Aha!" Moment - Methods, Tips, & Lessons Learned in Threat Hunting - sans Thir Summit 2019.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 Feb. 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

8:16

vulnerability management (noun)

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2025/03/18

The continuous practice of identifying classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities within this.CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/vulnerability-management Audio reference link: “Vulnerability Scanning - Comptia Security+ sy0-501 - 1.5.” YouTube, YouTube, 11 Nov. 2017, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:59

software bill of materials (SBOM) (noun)

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2025/03/11

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9:02

zero trust (noun)

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2025/03/04

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:13

OT security (noun)

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2025/02/25

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes.Hardware and software designed to detect and prevent cyber adversary campaigns that target industrial operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:43

cybersecurity skills gap (noun)

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2025/02/18

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. The difference between organizational employee job requirements and the available skillsets in the potential employee pool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:05

digital transformation (noun)

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2025/02/11

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.The use of technology to radically improve the performance or reach of the business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:32

bulletproof hosting (noun)

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2025/02/04

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.Cloud services intended for cyber criminals and other bad actors designed to obstruct law enforcement and other kinds of government investigations, and to provide some protection against competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:31

endpoint security

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2025/01/28

The practice of securing a device that connects to a network in order to facilitate communication with other devices on the same or different networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:14

Executive Order on Improving the Nation's...

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2025/01/21

President Biden's May, 2021 formal compliance mandate for federal civilian executive branch agencies, or FCEBs, to include specific shortterm and longterm deadlines designed to enhance the federal government's digital defense posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8:03

lateral movement (noun)

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2025/01/14

Phase of a typical cyber adversary group's attack sequence, after the initial compromise and usually after the group has established a command and control channel, where the group moves through the victims network by compromising as many systems as it can, by looking for the data, it has come to steal or to destroy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:13

common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) (noun)

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2025/01/07

A public list sponsored by the US government and designed to uniquely identify, without the need to manually cross- reference, all the known software vulnerabilities in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:16

dead-box forensics (noun)

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2024/12/31

A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:57

cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC) (noun)

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2024/12/24

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A supply chain cybersecurity accreditation standard designed for the protection of controlled unclassified information that the U.S. Department of Defense, or DoD, will require for all contract bids by October, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:50

incident response (noun)

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2024/12/17

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A collection of people, process, and technology that provides an organization the ability to detect and respond to cyber attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5:38

script kiddies (noun)

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2024/12/10

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.Cybercriminals who lack the expertise to write their own programs use existing scripts, code, or tools authored by other more skilled hackers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:25

sandbox (noun)

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2024/12/03

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.An isolated and controlled set of resources that mimics real world environments and used to safely execute suspicious code without infecting or causing damage to the host machine, operating system, or network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6:26

security orchestration, automation, and response...

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2024/11/26

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A stack of security software solutions and tools that allow organizations to orchestrate disparate internal and external tools which feed pre-built automation playbooks that respond to events or alert analysts if an event meets a certain threshold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7:26

personally identifiable information (PII) (noun)

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2024/11/19

A term of legal art that defines the types of data and circumstances that permits a third party to directly or indirectly identify an individual with collected data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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