Cybersecurity & Threats
This term refers to software intentionally crafted to exploit system vulnerabilities, often for espionage or sabotage.
What is malware?
This distributed computing model enables on-demand resource access but introduces regulatory and privacy challenges.
What is cloud computing?
This encryption method relies on asymmetric key pairs and is foundational to secure e-commerce.
What is public key cryptography?
A subset of artificial intelligence, this field focuses on algorithms that improve through experience.
What is machine learning?
This international agreement set the legal foundation for cross-border cooperation on cybercrime investigations.
What is the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime?
Often leveraging social engineering, this cyberattack deceives users into self-compromising their security credentials.
What is phishing?
This emerging architecture disaggregates proprietary telecom infrastructure into modular, interoperable components.
What is Open RAN?
This encryption scheme, based on factoring large primes, underlies much of modern internet security.
What is the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) algorithm?
This device utilizes quantum properties such as entanglement and superposition to solve complex problems beyond classical limits.
What is a quantum computer?
This model redefines network security by treating all access attempts as untrusted until explicitly verified.
What is Zero Trust?
This specific form of malware encrypts or locks down critical data and demands payment in exchange for restoration.
What is ransomware?
Cyber-physical systems like SCADA fall under this category, which, when attacked, can cause real-world physical disruption.
What is Operational Technology (OT)?
This quantum breakthrough threatens traditional encryption by solving integer factorization exponentially faster.
What is Shor’s Algorithm?
This immutable and transparent data structure underpins decentralized systems and eliminates the need for central trust.
What is blockchain?
This forensic process seeks to technically and politically link cyber intrusions to a responsible actor.
What is attribution?
This stealthy software variant is often bundled with legitimate apps and harvests data without explicit consent.
What is spyware?
This layered protocol suite underpins global data transmission, abstracting complexity through logical segmentation.
What is the Internet Stack?
Often used in insecure networks, this service masks traffic through encryption and rerouting.
What is a virtual private network?
Neither physical nor necessarily government-issued, this digital medium of exchange is often decentralized and cryptographic.
What is digital currency?
Though non-binding, this global multistakeholder platform facilitates dialogue on complex internet governance issues.
What is the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)?
These attacks exploit unpatched flaws that are unknown to software vendors and cybersecurity communities.
What are zero-day attacks?
Originally built for rendering graphics, this processor type now accelerates AI and scientific workloads through parallelism.
What is a Graphics processing unit?
This layered authentication approach reduces the risk of credential theft through physical and digital proof mechanisms.
What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
This blockchain-based token confers verifiable ownership of a digital asset, often in art or gaming.
What is a non-fungible token?
This national security doctrine leverages robust defense infrastructure to dissuade cyber or kinetic adversaries.
What is deterrence by defense?