Coding Learning
*🛡️🔥 Cybersecurity Terms Every Beginner Should Know *
- *1. Vulnerability Assessment 🔍* — The process of identifying and evaluating security weaknesses in systems or applications.
- *2. Penetration Testing 🕵️* — Authorized security testing used to validate whether vulnerabilities can actually be exploited.
- *3. Vulnerability Scanner 📡* — A security tool that automatically checks systems or applications for known weaknesses.
- *4. Patch Management 🔧* — The process of identifying, testing, and applying software updates and security patches.
- *5. Security Misconfiguration ⚙️* — An insecure system or application configuration that can create security risks.
- *6. Attack Surface Management 🎯* — Identifying, monitoring, and reducing an organization's exposed assets and entry points.
- *7. Endpoint 💻* — A device connected to a network, such as a laptop, desktop, smartphone, or server.
- *8. EDR 🛡️* — Endpoint Detection and Response technology that monitors endpoints and helps detect and investigate suspicious activity.
- *9. NDR 🌐* — Network Detection and Response technology that monitors network activity to identify suspicious behavior.
- *10. Firewall Rule 🔥* — A rule that determines whether specific network traffic should be allowed or blocked.
- *11. Port 🚪* — A logical communication endpoint used by network services and applications.
- *12. Protocol 📡* — A defined set of rules that devices use to communicate over a network.
- *13. Packet 📦* — A unit of data transmitted across a network.
- *14. DNS 🌍* — Domain Name System that translates domain names into IP addresses.
- *15. IP Address 📍* — A numerical address used to identify a device or network interface.
- *16. MAC Address 🖥️* — A hardware-level network address associated with a network interface.
- *17. Proxy Server 🔄* — An intermediary that forwards requests between a client and another system.
- *18. VPN Tunnel 🔒* — An encrypted connection that carries network traffic between a device and a VPN endpoint.
- *19. Network Segmentation 🧱* — Dividing a network into separate segments to limit access and reduce the impact of incidents.
- *20. DMZ 🌐* — A network segment used to isolate publicly accessible services from an organization's internal network.
*💡 Understanding these networking and infrastructure terms will make topics like ethical hacking, SOC analysis, cloud security, and network defense much easier to learn.*
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