Acronyms
MAC
What is Media Access Control?
WiFi used by the general public.
What is Free WiFi?
Programming language named after coffee from Indonesia.
What is Java?
Company that administers our POSiTouch system as well as credit card processing.
What is Shift4?
A fraudulent email pretending to be from your bank and asking for your login information is a classic example of this kind of simple cyberattack.
What is Phishing?
API
What is Application Programming Interface?
Device that connects multiple computers and devices to be wired to the network.
What is a Switch?
In 1999 Shigetaka Kurity invented these expressive keyboard additions for cell phones.
What are Emojis?
New accounting software used by GAR.
What is Sage?
This occurs when unauthorized parties access confidential information, which can include personal data (like Social Security numbers and bank account details) and corporate data (such as customer records and intellectual property).
What is a Data Breach?
SaaS
What is Software as a Service?
WiFi used in the restaurants by managers/SC as well as WiFi all GAR-owned devices are joined to.
What is GAR?
Most well known generative artificial intelligence chatbot
What is a ChatGPT?
System we use for catering sales at Stupid Good BBQ as well as booking rooms at Patsy's & Randy's?
What is TripleSeat?
A person who has been trained to hack into their own system to test it for weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Who is a Certified Ethical Hacker?
VLAN
What is Virtual Local Area Network?
Microsoft collaboration platform GAR uses to store, organize, and share content and information.
What is SharePoint?
This is the primary function of a computers central processing unit (CPU).
What is preforming calculations and running programs?
This company hosts our gift card sales for both plastic and e-gift cards.
What is CashStar?
This is the purpose of a firewall in a computer network.
What is to protect unauthorized access and cyber threats?
EMV
What is EuroPay, Mastercard, Visa?
Policy management platform GAR uses to provide secure network access control. It helps onboard devices & enforce security policies.
What is ClearPass?
This is the most popular social media platform in the world.
What is Facebook?
Business Intelligence tool we use to capture and consolidate sales and reporting.
What is Mirus?
The term in network security for an attack where a person or program allows themselves to be identified as someone else by falsifying data. It is no laughing matter, but when the word is used in film, it can be.
What is Spoof?