Security & SSL الأمان وSSL
Protecting sites and servers — TLS certificates, firewalls, DDoS mitigation, authentication hardening and encryption at rest.
10 terms in this categorySSL/TLS
The encryption protocol securing traffic between browsers and servers — what puts the padlock and https:// in the addres...
DDoS Attack هجوم حجب الخدمة الموزّع (DDoS)
Distributed Denial of Service — flooding a target with traffic from thousands of hijacked machines until legitimate user...
HTTPS
HTTP wrapped in TLS encryption — the secure version of the web's transfer protocol, running on port 443. It guarantees t...
Let's Encrypt
The non-profit certificate authority that made HTTPS free for everyone. It issues domain-validated TLS certificates thro...
Wildcard SSL شهادة Wildcard
A single certificate that covers a domain AND all its first-level subdomains — *.example.com secures www, app, mail and...
Firewall جدار الحماية
The gatekeeper that filters network traffic by rules — which ports are open, which IPs may connect, which packets get dr...
WAF — Web Application Firewall جدار حماية تطبيقات الويب (WAF)
A firewall that understands HTTP — it inspects requests at the application layer and blocks attack patterns a network fi...
Brute-Force Attack هجوم القوة الغاشمة
Guessing credentials by trying thousands of combinations against a login — SSH, WordPress admin, email, FTP. Defenses ar...
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) المصادقة الثنائية (2FA)
Requiring a second proof beyond the password — a rotating code from an authenticator app, a hardware key, or a one-time...
Encryption التشفير
Mathematically scrambling data so only key holders can read it. In hosting it appears in two forms: encryption in transi...