The AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity
Encyclopedia
A reference for AI, cloud and cybersecurity terminology — from foundational concepts to AI-driven threats and defenses.
D Terms
Data Breach
A data breach is a security incident where unauthorized parties access personal information, sensitive data, or confidential information. This guide…
Data Exfiltration
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of data from your systems to an attacker-controlled location. This article covers how data…
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Data loss prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data from unauthorized movement, sharing, and exposure across all three data states — at…
Data Security
Data security is the practice of keeping digital information safe from theft, loss, and misuse across its full lifecycle. This…
DDoS Attack
A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack floods a target with traffic from thousands of devices to take it offline.…
Device Posture Assessment
Device posture assessment checks a device’s health — OS, patches, encryption, firewall, EDR — before and during access. Nearly 80%…
DevOps
DevOps brings software development and IT operations together through shared culture, CI/CD automation, and continuous feedback. This article covers how…
DevSecOps
DevSecOps integrates security into every phase of the software development lifecycle by embedding automated security checks into the CI/CD pipeline.…
Discretionary Access Control
Discretionary access control lets the resource owner decide who can access it and what they can do — making it…
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