• In computer security, a threat is a potential negative action or event enabled by a vulnerability that results in an unwanted impact to a computer system...
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  • Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to influence information security. This is often taken in the context...
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  • inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data and computer systems. The threat may involve fraud, the theft of confidential or...
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  • integrity and security of computer systems. Exploits can cause unintended or unanticipated behavior in systems, potentially leading to severe security breaches...
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  • A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network...
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  • "threat tree" in his book, "Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology." The concept of a threat tree was based on decision tree diagrams. Threat trees...
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  • to computer security: Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer software...
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    Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer software, systems and...
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  • identifying computer security threats developed by Praerit Garg and Loren Kohnfelder at Microsoft. It provides a mnemonic for security threats in six categories...
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  • persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy threat actor, typically a state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and...
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  • fields of computer security and information technology, computer security incident management involves the monitoring and detection of security events on...
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  • indicators of compromise (IoC) threat intelligence. List of digital forensics tools Vulnerability management White hat (computer security) Red team Sypris Electronics...
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  • someone's webmail account, to cracking the security of a bank. The maximum penalty for unauthorized access to a computer is two years in prison and a fine. There...
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  • Security information and event management (SIEM) is a field within computer security that combines security information management (SIM) and security...
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  • to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions." This is in contrast to traditional threat management measures, such as firewalls...
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  • DREAD (risk assessment model) (category Computer security)
    risk-assessing computer security threats that was formerly used at Microsoft. It provides a mnemonic for risk rating security threats using five categories...
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  • insiders as current threats. McAfee McAfee is an American global computer security software company. The company publishes a quarterly threat report that identifies...
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  • of how much to spend on security is difficult to answer. Because of the ever changing and uncertain nature of cyber-threats, risk assessment may produce...
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  • to face evolving threats. Endpoint security management is a software approach that helps to identify and manage the users' computer and data access over...
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  • There are various companies that provide computer security services, develop computer security software or resell software exploits. ADF Solutions Altor...
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  • private sector in how to avoid computer security threats. It is the UK's National technical authority for cyber threats and Information Assurance. Based...
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    (/ˈʃnaɪ.ər/; born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is an Adjunct...
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  • of computer viruses is challenging due to inconsistent naming conventions. To combat computer viruses and other malicious software, many security advisory...
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  • Open Threat Exchange (OTX) is a crowd-sourced computer-security platform. It has more than 180,000 participants in 140 countries who share more than 19...
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  • the deep and dark web. In recent years, threat intelligence has become a crucial part of companies' cyber security strategy since it allows companies to...
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    majority of active malware threats are trojan horse programs or computer worms rather than computer viruses. The term computer virus, coined by Fred Cohen...
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  • Malware (redirect from Computer contaminant)
    interferes with the user's computer security and privacy. Researchers tend to classify malware into one or more sub-types (i.e. computer viruses, worms, Trojan...
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  • Content Disarm & Reconstruction (category Computer security)
    ExeFilter Advanced persistent threat Computer security Cyber threats Deep Content Inspection Internet security Content Threat Removal Santarcangelo, Michael...
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  • Unified threat management (UTM) is an approach to information security where a single hardware or software installation provides multiple security functions...
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  • In computer security a countermeasure is an action, device, procedure, or technique that reduces a threat, vulnerability, or attack, eliminating or preventing...
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