Cybersecurity Vocabulary 2022

These are efforts by bad actors to profit from their malicious attacks.

• Cybercrime

• Botnets

• Adware

• VPN

A software exploit which in turns involves a combination of attacks against different vulnerabilities

• blended threats

• trojan horse

• intranet

• back doors

It acts as a barrier between a trusted system or network and outside connections, such as the Internet.

• firewall

• spyware

• phishing

• encryption

A _________ is an automated program that runs over the Internet

• spyware

• virus

• worm

• bot

A feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data

• intranet

• trojan horse

• back doors

• blended threat

Self replicating virus that does not alter files but resides in active memory and duplicates itself

• worm

• virus

• spyware

• trojan horse

A planned event during which an organization simulates a cyber disruption to develop or test capabilities

• internet

• hacker

• gateway

• cyber exercise

Is global system of interconnected computer networks

• internet

• hacker

• gateway

• cyber exercise

A network point that acts as an entrance to another network

• internet

• hacker

• gateway

• cyber exercise

Designed to detect and destroy computer virus

• antivirus software

• hacker

• gateway

• cyber exercise