Perimeter 81 Network Security Glossary

From Application Access to Zero Trust, our glossary has your network and information security terms covered from A-Z.

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Network Security

What Is SASE Architecture?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is Enterprise Web Filtering?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is Wi-Fi Security?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is SaaS?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is Zero Trust Architecture?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is a Backbone Network?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is Network As A Service (NaaS)?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is The OSI Model?

The OSI Model (Open Systems Interconnection Model) is a conceptual framework used to describe the functions of a networking system.

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Network Security

What Is Least Privilege Access?

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Network Security

What Is Work From Home (WFH)?

WFH stands for “work from home,” or “working from home.” It is the new way of working post Covid-19 pandemic, leaving out the traditional office setting

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Network Security

What Is Content Filtering?

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Network Security

What Is Remote Work Security?

Access controls are responsible for determining who can access certain resources in an organization. Failure to restrict access can have great repercussions.

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Network Security

What Is Zero Trust Application Access?

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Network Security

What Is Mobile Device Management?

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Network Security

What Is SSL Inspection?

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Network Security

What Is BYOD Security?

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Network Security

What Is Web Security?

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Network Security

What Is DNS Filtering?

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Network Security

What Is VPN Security?

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Cybersecurity

What Is Malware?

It is software designed to damage computer systems silently, the cost can be daunting (the record being $38 billion in damages).

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Network Security

What Is Application Control?

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Network Security

What Is an Indicator of Compromise (IoC)?

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Network Security

What Is Zero Phishing?

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Network Security

What Is a UDP Flood Attack?

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Network Security

What Is an Application Layer DDoS Attack?

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Network Security

What is a Threat Actor?

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Network Security

What is a Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)?

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Network Security

What Is a Botnet?

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Network Security

What Is a DDoS Attack?

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Network Security

What Is a Phishing Attack?

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Network Security

What Is a Zero-Day DDoS Attack?

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Network Security

What Is Spear Phishing?

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Network Security

What Is a Threat Scenario?

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Network Security

What Is Threat Emulation?

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Network Security

What Is File Sanitization?

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Network Security

What Is a Zero-Day Attack?

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Network Security

What Is Zero Trust Network Access?

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Network Security

What Is a Cloud Access Security Broker?

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Network Security

What is SSH (Secure Shell)?

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Network Security

What Is a Reduced Attack Surface?

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Network Security

What Is a VPN Concentrator?

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Network Security

What Is a Zero Trust Architecture?

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Network Security

What is a Remote Access Service?

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Network Security

Cyber Security Solution: Everything You Need to Know

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Network Security

Exploring the Fundamentals of Secure Remote Access

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Network Security

SaaS Application Security: Everything You Need to Know

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Compliance

HIPAA

The HIPAA Act is a federal law that requires the creation of national standards in order to protect sensitive patient health information

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Network Security

Business VPN

A Next-gen Business VPN simplifies the secure access to all your internal and cloud-based resources such as staging servers and company databases.

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Network Security

Site-to-Site VPN

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Network Security

What is an Open Source VPN?

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Network Security

What is Network Threat Hunting?

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Network Security

What Is Cloud Collaboration?

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Network Security

What is Micro Segmentation in Network Security?

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Network Security

What Is Data Loss Prevention for Businesses?

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Network Security

What Is Network Access Control?

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Network Security

What Is Business Network Patch Management?

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Network Security

What Is Network Threat Detection Response?

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Network Security

What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway?

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Network Security

What Is an Application-Level Gateway (ALG)?

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Network Security

What Is a Packet Filtering Firewall?

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Network Security

What Is a Static IP?

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Network Security

What is Network Encryption?

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Network Security

What Is a Stateful Firewall?

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Network Security

What is DNS Fast Flux?

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Network Security

What is Account Takeover?

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Cloud Security

What is Cloud Infrastructure?

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Cloud Security

What is Enterprise Hybrid Cloud?

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Cloud Security

What is Hybrid Cloud Security?

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Cloud Security

What is a Cloud Firewall?

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Cloud Security

What Is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

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Network Security

What is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?

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Network Security

What is a Personal Firewall?

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Network Security

What is Packet Filter?

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Network Security

What is OpenShift?

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Network Security

What is DNS Security?

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Network Security

What is IoT Security?

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Network Security

What is Email Security?

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Network Security

What is a Firewall?

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Network Security

What is Network Segmentation?

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Network Security

Everything You Need to Know About Web Protection

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Network Security

What is SSE?

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Network Security

What is URL Filtering?

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Network Security

What is a Network Gateway?

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Network Security

What is Web Filtering?

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Network Security

Malware Protection

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Networking

What Is An Identity Provider (IdP)?

Your corporate identity can easily be stolen or compromised by hackers. Protect your identity with Perimeter 81 and ensure the security of your web login.

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Networking

What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

Every year hackers try to gain unauthorized access to private company data. Use Perimeter 81’s IAM to improve security, reduce costs, and even increase efficiency.

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Networking

What is Lateral Movement?

Discover the 3 main stages of a lateral movement and how you can detect lateral movement techniques within your network.

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Networking

What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

Learn how Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) can prevent compromised credentials that lead to massive data breaches.

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Networking

What is ZTNA?

Discover the benefits of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and how it outperforms legacy VPNs in securing the new hybrid workplace.

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Networking

Agent vs Agentless Security

Deciding between agent or agentless security? Discover the advantages and disadvantages of both agent types and which is the right fit for your business.

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Networking

What Is Encryption?

Are your apps and cloud resources as secure as you think? Learn how encryption works and how it can help prevent phishing attacks within your organization.

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Networking

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Learn how to prevent your credentials from being compromised by malicious actors using Single sign-on (SSO) authentication. Find out how SSO works.

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Networking

What Is SAML?

80% of data breaches are caused by stolen credentials. Learn how to prevent identity theft within your organization by integrating the SAML open standard for more secure authentication.

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Networking

What is a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?

An MSP or Managed Service Provider is a third-party company that provides IT outsourcing services to other businesses. Curious to see how much an MSP can save your business? Read on.

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Networking

What is an Endpoint?

68% of organizations experienced at least one or more endpoint attacks. Learn how to secure your endpoints from malicious attacks.

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Networking

Access Control Models Explained in Detail: PAM, MAC, DAC & RBAC

Access controls are responsible for determining who can access certain resources in an organization. Failure to restrict access can have great repercussions.

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Networking

ZTNA vs VPN

Contrary to VPN, ZTNA helps prevent attacks such as credential stuffing as it leverages the principle of least privilege (PoLP).

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Networking

Authentication vs. Authorization

Authentication verifies a user’s identity while authorization grants permissions to access resources. So, how exactly do they differ? Let’s have a closer look at both.

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Networking

IPsec Tunnel Mode vs. Transport Mode

IPsec Tunnel Mode and Transport Mode are both security protocols used to protect data sent over a network. They differ in how the data is protected.

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Networking

VPN Passthrough

A VPN passthrough is a router feature that enables any device connected to allow VPN traffic to pass through that specific router or access a remote network.

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Networking

DDoS

There are 16 DDoS attacks per minute. Are your network resources safe? Learn how DDoS attacks work and to protect against them.

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Networking

Data Breach

There were 3,950 confirmed data breaches in 2020. Is your data really that safe? Learn how to take preventive measures against data breaches.

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Networking

SCIM

SCIM is the best system for managing identities in cloud-based applications and services and can help preventing identity theft.

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Networking

Secure Web Gateway

A single malware attack can cost your organization up to $2.5 million. Learn how to filter out threats with Secure Web Gateway (SWG).

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Networking

VPN

From hiding your identity to improving your Business security, learn how a VPN works and how to choose one.

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Networking

VPN Split Tunneling

The average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute. Leverage split tunneling with Perimeter 81’s NaaS and secure your traffic controls.

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Compliance

HITRUST

HITRUST is a healthcare-driven industry organization that created and maintains the certifiable Common Security Framework (CSF).

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Compliance

GDPR

GDPR fines can wind up costing your organization up to $24 million dollars. Learn how to prevent hefty GDPR penalties and remain GDPR compliant

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Cybersecurity

SIEM

The average cost of a malware attack on a company is $2.4 million. Learn how to prevent it by implementing a SIEM security strategy.

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Cybersecurity

Phishing

Ransomware allows hackers to commit cyber blackmail and is currently one of the most sabotaging forms of malware around

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Cybersecurity

Ransomware

Ransomware allows hackers to commit cyber blackmail and is currently one of the most sabotaging forms of malware around

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Cybersecurity

2FA

2FA adds an extra layer of security to online accounts by requiring you to verify your identity twice.

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Network Security

SASE

With the SASE security model, organizations have the ability to identify users and devices and apply policy-based security.

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Network Security

SSL

Unify security for user traffic to your organization’s resources, whether in the cloud or locally, with an SSL VPN solution from Perimeter 81.

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Network Security

IPSEC

An IPSec VPN solution is ideal for easily managing and customizing network access across cloud and local resources.

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Network Security

CASB

Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are security policy enforcement points that ensure compliance and policies between cloud service customers and cloud service providers.

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Network Security

What is Zero Trust?

Zero Trust provides employees with more secure access to resources, network, and applications based on user permissions, and authentication.

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Network Security

DevSecOps

DevSecOps addresses security issues early on in the development life cycle by adding the missing security and team collaboration components.

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Networking

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual desktop infrastructure is crucial for enabling on-demand remote resource access, and Perimeter 81 helps make this idea safer and faster than ever.

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Network Security

Always On VPN

Easily integrate a unified security solution across your organization’s cloud-hybrid network, with the Perimeter 81’s Always On VPN solution.

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Network Security

IT Infrastructure Security

The components of your organization’s IT infrastructure, including software, facilities and other network pieces, are more easily managed and secured with Perimeter 81.

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Networking

Remote Desktop Protocol

Easily integrate a Remote Desktop Protocol solution across your organization’s cloud-hybrid network, with the Perimeter 81 RDP.

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Network Security

Wireguard VPN

The favorite encryption protocol for enterprises, Perimeter 81’s Wireguard VPN results in faster connections, lower latency and superior security performance.

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Network Security

Firewall as a Service unifies traffic inspection and infiltration prevention for all your organization’s resources with one cloud-based firewall, and it is a crucial part of Perimeter 81’s Network as a Service platform.

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Cybersecurity

What Is Cybersecurity?

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Network Security

Cloud Network Security

Easily integrate a cloud network security solution across your organization’s hybrid network, with the Perimeter 81 solution.

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Network Security

Software Defined Networking

Easily integrate a software defined network security solution across your organization’s cloud-hybrid network, with the Perimeter 81 SDN.

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CEO and Founder

What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)?

The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model allows IT security teams to easily connect and secure all of their organization’s networks and users in an agile, cost-effective and scalable way.

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