Word Notes

Feb 03 2025 242 ep. 6 mins 416

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A fun and informative cybersecurity audio glossary from N2K.

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bulletproof hosting (noun)

Feb 03 2025 6 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. Cloud services intended for cyber criminals and other bad actors designed to obstruct law enforcement and other kinds of government investigations, and to provide some protection against competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

endpoint security

Jan 27 2025 8 mins

The practice of securing a device that connects to a network in order to facilitate communication with other devices on the same or different networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (noun)

Jan 20 2025 8 mins

President Biden's May, 2021 formal compliance mandate for federal civilian executive branch agencies, or FCEBs, to include specific shortterm and longterm deadlines designed to enhance the federal government's digital defense posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

lateral movement (noun)

Jan 13 2025 8 mins

Phase of a typical cyber adversary group's attack sequence, after the initial compromise and usually after the group has established a command and control channel, where the group moves through the victims network by compromising as many systems as it can, by looking for the data, it has come to steal or to destroy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) (noun)

Jan 06 2025 7 mins

A public list sponsored by the US government and designed to uniquely identify, without the need to manually cross- reference, all the known software vulnerabilities in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

dead-box forensics (noun)

Dec 30 2024 6 mins

A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC) (noun)

Dec 23 2024 6 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A supply chain cybersecurity accreditation standard designed for the protection of controlled unclassified information that the U.S. Department of Defense, or DoD, will require for all contract bids by October, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

incident response (noun)

Dec 16 2024 7 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A collection of people, process, and technology that provides an organization the ability to detect and respond to cyber attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

script kiddies (noun)

Dec 09 2024 5 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. Cybercriminals who lack the expertise to write their own programs use existing scripts, code, or tools authored by other more skilled hackers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

sandbox (noun)

Dec 02 2024 6 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. An isolated and controlled set of resources that mimics real world environments and used to safely execute suspicious code without infecting or causing damage to the host machine, operating system, or network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices