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Data Security and Cloud Computing

• How to put AI security to work in your organization

  Countering cyberthreats through human effort alone is impossible; you need to add AI and machine learning products to your security program. Here's how to get started. Continue Reading

• Transport Layer Security (TLS)

  Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that provides authentication, privacy, and data integrity between two communicating computer applications. Continue Reading

• van Eck phreaking

  Van Eck phreaking is a form of electronic eavesdropping that reverse engineers the electromagnetic fields (EM fields) produced by a computing device. Continue Reading

• checksum

  A checksum is a value that represents the number of bits in a transmission message and is used by IT professionals to detect high-level errors within data transmissions. Continue Reading

• logic bomb

  A logic bomb, sometimes referred to as slag code, is a string of malicious code used to cause harm to a network when the programmed conditions are met. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • van Eck phreaking
  • checksum
  • logic bomb

  • malware (malicious software)
  • email spoofing
  • information security (infosec)
  • payload (computing)

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• malware (malicious software)

  Malware, or malicious software, is any program or file that is harmful to a computer user.Continue Reading

• email spoofing

  Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.Continue Reading

• information security (infosec)

  Information security (infosec) is a set of strategies for managing the processes, tools and policies necessary to prevent, detect, document and counter threats to digital and non-digital information.Continue Reading

• payload (computing)

  In computing, a payload is the carrying capacity of a packet or other transmission data unit. The term has its roots in the military and is often associated with the capacity of executable malicious code  to do damage. Technically, the payload of a ...Continue Reading

• passphrase

  A passphrase is a string of characters longer than the usual password (which is typically from four to 16 characters long) that is used in creating a digital signature (an encoded signature that proves to someone that it was really you who sent a ...Continue Reading

• Mimikatz tutorial: How it hacks Windows passwords, credentials

  In this Mimikatz tutorial, learn about the password and credential dumping program, where you can acquire it and how easy it makes it to compromise system passwords.Continue Reading

• Web application firewall (WAF)

  A Web application firewall (WAF) is a firewall that monitors, filters or blocks traffic to and from a Web application. WAFs are especially useful to companies that provide products or services over the Internet.Continue Reading

• Diffie-Hellman key exchange (exponential key exchange)

  Diffie-Hellman key exchange, also called exponential key exchange, is a method of digital encryption that uses a number raised to specific powers to produce decryption keys that are never directly transmitted, making the task of a would-be code ...Continue Reading

• cache poisoning (DNS poisoning, web cache poisoning)

  Cache poisoning is an attack vector that exploits the way domain name system (DNS) clients and web servers improve performance by saving old responses for a specified period of time in a temporary storage area called cache.Continue Reading

• How to comply with the California privacy act

  Organizations that handle California consumer data have a year to comply with CCPA. Expert Steven Weil discusses what enterprises need to know about the California privacy law.Continue Reading