Word Notes

Mar 03 2025 246 ep. 6 mins 422

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A fun and informative cybersecurity audio glossary from N2K.

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zero trust (noun)

Mar 03 2025 9 mins

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OT security (noun)

Feb 24 2025 8 mins

Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Hardware and software designed to detect and prevent cyber adversary campaigns that target industrial operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

cybersecurity skills gap (noun)

Feb 17 2025 7 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. The difference between organizational employee job requirements and the available skillsets in the potential employee pool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

digital transformation (noun)

Feb 10 2025 7 mins

Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. The use of technology to radically improve the performance or reach of the business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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