Cybersecurity الأمن السيبراني
How systems are attacked, and the words we use for defending them.
31 terms in this categoryAuthenticator App تطبيق المصادقة
An authenticator app is a free app on your phone that produces the six-digit code a website asks for after your password...
Backup النسخ الاحتياطي
A backup is a second copy of your files, kept somewhere safe from whatever destroys the first copy, so you can get your...
Cyber Insurance التأمين السيبراني
Cyber insurance is a policy that pays for the clean-up after an attack, as long as you kept the security promises you ma...
Data Breach خرق البيانات
A data breach is the moment private customer information leaves your control, whether a thief took it or someone simply...
Disaster Recovery Plan خطة التعافي من الكوارث
A disaster recovery plan is a short written document that says exactly what your business does, and who does it, on the...
Encryption التشفير
Encryption is a way of scrambling your information into nonsense, so that only the person holding the right key can read...
End-of-Life Software البرامج المنتهي دعمها
End-of-life software is a program its maker has stopped repairing, so any weakness someone finds in it from that day on...
Ethical Hacking الاختراق الأخلاقي
Ethical hacking is an attack on your own system that you asked for and paid for, so a trusted expert finds the holes bef...
GDPR اللائحة العامة لحماية البيانات
GDPR is the European law that sets out how a business may collect, keep and use the personal information of the people i...
HTTPS بروتوكول HTTPS
HTTPS is the protected version of a web address, and it scrambles everything sent between a visitor's browser and your s...
Invoice Fraud الاحتيال بالفواتير
Invoice fraud is a fake or altered supplier bill that gets you to pay a real amount into a bank account the criminal con...
Jailbroken Device جهاز مكسور الحماية
A jailbroken device is a phone whose built-in protections have been removed on purpose, which lets one app read what ano...
Keylogger راصد لوحة المفاتيح
A keylogger is a hidden program that records every key someone types on a computer, including the password to the compan...
Least Privilege مبدأ أقل الصلاحيات
Least privilege means each person can open only the screens their own job needs, so a stolen account cannot reach the re...
Malware البرمجيات الخبيثة
Malware is any program written to damage your computer or to work quietly for someone else while you carry on using it.
Offboarding إنهاء صلاحيات الموظف المغادر
Offboarding is the security work a business does when someone leaves, closing every login and shared password they had s...
OWASP Top 10 قائمة OWASP لأخطر عشر ثغرات
The OWASP Top 10 is a free list of the ten mistakes that most often let a stranger into a website or a web application.
Password Manager مدير كلمات المرور
A password manager is a small program that remembers every password for you and keeps them locked away, leaving you just...
Patch Management إدارة تحديثات البرامج
Patch management is the habit of updating every program and device you use on a set plan instead of whenever someone rem...
PCI Compliance الامتثال لمعايير PCI
PCI compliance is the set of safety rules that the card companies make every business follow before it is allowed to tak...
Phishing التصيّد الاحتيالي
Phishing is a message built to look like it came from someone you trust, so that you hand over a password, a code or a p...
QR Code Phishing (Quishing) التصيّد عبر رمز الاستجابة السريعة
QR code phishing, also called quishing, is a scam where a fake code is stuck over a real one so your phone opens a fake...
Ransomware برامج الفدية
Ransomware is a program that locks every file on a company's computers and then demands a payment before it will hand th...
Security Awareness Training التوعية الأمنية للموظفين
Security awareness training is the short, regular practice that teaches your staff to spot a fake email or phone call be...
SIM Swap Fraud احتيال تبديل الشريحة
SIM swap fraud is a scam in which a criminal moves your phone number onto their own SIM card, so your calls and security...
Social Engineering الهندسة الاجتماعية
Social engineering is an attack on the person rather than the computer, where someone uses fear or hurry to talk you int...
Third-Party Risk مخاطر الأطراف الخارجية
Third-party risk is the chance that your data leaks through a supplier, a freelancer or a plugin you trusted, rather tha...
Two-Factor Authentication المصادقة الثنائية
Two-factor authentication is a sign-in that asks for your password and then for something you are holding, so a stolen p...
User Access Review مراجعة صلاحيات المستخدمين
A user access review is a regular check of who can still log into your systems, including the accounts nobody remembers...
Web Application Firewall جدار حماية تطبيقات الويب
A web application firewall is a filter that reads every request arriving at your website and blocks the ones that look l...
Zero Trust الثقة الصفرية
Zero trust is a way of working where nobody is trusted just for sitting inside the office, and every single login is che...