Cybersecurity Terminology

ResourcesTerms & Definitions

Virtualization
- creating virtual representations of servers, storage, networks, and other physical machines
virus
- A computer program that can replicate itself, infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user, and then spread or propagate to another computer.
vishing
- a hacking technique of defrauding targets over the phone, enticing them to divulge sensitive information
vulnerability
- A characteristic or specific weakness that renders an organization or asset (such as information or an information system) open to exploitation by a given threat or susceptible to a given hazard.
vulnerability assessment and management
- In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Conducts assessments of threats and vulnerabilities, determines deviations from acceptable configurations, enterprise or local policy, assesses the level of risk, and develops and/or recommends appropriate mitigation countermeasures in operational and non-operational situations.
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