IT & Cybersecurity Terminology Glossary
Bilingual definitions and architectural context for networking, cloud, and application security acronyms.
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
An IP addressing scheme that replaces traditional classes with prefix-length masks.
Variable Length Subnet Mask
A technique allowing different subnet masks for different subnets within the same network block.
Server-Side Request Forgery
A web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make requests to unintended locations.
Content Security Policy
An HTTP header that helps site operators restrict resources that browsers are allowed to load.
HTTP Strict Transport Security
A web security policy mechanism that protects websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks.