The glossary

Cybersecurity Glossary

Learn about Cybrary's impact initiatives where we focus on reducing industry-wide gatekeeping, improving security teams, and making a difference throughout the cybersecurity industry and beyond.

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Chief Information Security Officer

A chief information security officer is a senior level executive of an organization entrusted with the responsibilities of protecting the information assets of the businesses and making sure that the information policies of the organization align with the objectives of the organization.

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Confidentiality

Confidentiality is the set of rules that places restrictions on access to, or sharing of information with the aim of preserving and protecting the privacy of the information.

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Ciphony

Ciphony is the process of enciphering audio information with the result of encrypted speech.

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Content Filtering

Content filtering is a process by which access to certain content, information, data is restricted, limited, or completely blocked based on organization’s rules. Any objectionable email, website, etc., is blocked using either software or hardware based tools.

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Countermeasure

A countermeasure is a defensive mechanism that helps mitigate risk, threat, to a network or computers, using a process, system or a device.

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Common Access Card (CAC)

A common access card is a standard identification/smart card issued by the department of defense. A common access card has an embedded integrated chip storing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

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Cybersecurity Architecture

Cybersecurity architecture is the information security layout that describes the overall structure, including its various components, and their relationships in an organization. It displays how strong the data security, controls and preventive mechanisms implemented in the organization are.

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Control 1

Control is the policies, strategies, guidelines, etc. Established in collaboration with various departments of an organization such as management, legal, technical to help mitigate risk.

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Compartmentalization

Compartmentalization is a technique of protecting confidential information by revealing it only to a few people, to those who actually need to know the details to perform their job. Thus, by restricting access to information, data the risk to business objectives is limited.

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Certification Management

Certificate management is the process in which certificates are generated, used, transmitted, loaded and destroyed.