🛡️🔥 Cybersecurity Terms Every Beginner Should Know — Part 6

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1. Vulnerability Assessment 🔍 — The process of identifying and evaluating security weaknesses in systems or applications.

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2. Penetration Testing 🕵️ — Authorized security testing used to validate whether vulnerabilities can actually be exploited.

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3. Vulnerability Scanner 📡 — A security tool that automatically checks systems or applications for known weaknesses.

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4. Patch Management 🔧 — The process of identifying, testing, and applying software updates and security patches.

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5. Security Misconfiguration ⚙️ — An insecure system or application configuration that can create security risks.

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6. Attack Surface Management 🎯 — Identifying, monitoring, and reducing an organization's exposed assets and entry points.

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7. Endpoint 💻 — A device connected to a network, such as a laptop, desktop, smartphone, or server.

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8. EDR 🛡️ — Endpoint Detection and Response technology that monitors endpoints and helps detect and investigate suspicious activity.

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9. NDR 🌐 — Network Detection and Response technology that monitors network activity to identify suspicious behavior.

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10. Firewall Rule 🔥 — A rule that determines whether specific network traffic should be allowed or blocked.

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11. Port 🚪 — A logical communication endpoint used by network services and applications.

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12. Protocol 📡 — A defined set of rules that devices use to communicate over a network.

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13. Packet 📦 — A unit of data transmitted across a network.

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14. DNS 🌍 — Domain Name System that translates domain names into IP addresses.

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15. IP Address 📍 — A numerical address used to identify a device or network interface.

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16. MAC Address 🖥️ — A hardware-level network address associated with a network interface.

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17. Proxy Server 🔄 — An intermediary that forwards requests between a client and another system.

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18. VPN Tunnel 🔒 — An encrypted connection that carries network traffic between a device and a VPN endpoint.

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19. Network Segmentation 🧱 — Dividing a network into separate segments to limit access and reduce the impact of incidents.

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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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