Term 1
2FA
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security method that requires two different types of proof before granting access to an account or system.
Acronym study
Terms 1–30 of 1001 Cloud Digital Leader acronyms and key terms. Each entry includes a plain-English definition and a link to the full 800-word glossary page with exam context and practice questions.
Term 1
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security method that requires two different types of proof before granting access to an account or system.
Term 2
802.1X is a network access control standard that authenticates devices before they are allowed to connect to a wired or wireless network.
Term 3
AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) is a security framework that controls who can access a network, what they are allowed to do, and tracks what they did.
Term 4
An acceptable use policy is a set of rules that an organization creates to define how employees and other users may use its computer systems, networks, and data.
Term 5
Access control is the security practice of determining who or what is allowed to view, use, or enter a resource, and under what conditions.
Term 6
An Access Control List is a set of rules that decides which traffic is allowed or denied entry to a network or device.
Term 7
Access Transparency is the practice of logging and monitoring all access requests to cloud service provider infrastructure by the provider's personnel, giving customers visibility into who accessed their data and when.
Term 8
Accountability is the security principle that ensures actions and identity are linked so that a person or system can be held responsible for their activities.
Term 9
An Access Control List is a set of rules that determines who or what can access specific network resources or data.
Term 10
Active reconnaissance is the process of directly interacting with a target system or network to gather information, often through scanning and probing.
Term 11
Active-active is a high-availability architecture where two or more nodes run workloads simultaneously and share the load, ensuring continuous service even if one node fails.
Term 12
Active-passive is a high-availability architecture where one system handles all active workloads while an identical passive system remains on standby, ready to take over if the active system fails.
Term 13
An administrative control is a policy, procedure, or guideline designed to manage and reduce security risk through people and processes rather than technology alone.
Term 14
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely used symmetric encryption algorithm that protects electronic data by converting readable information into a scrambled format that can only be unscrambled with the correct secret key.
Term 15
Adware is software that automatically displays or downloads unwanted advertisements, often bundled with free programs, and may track user behavior without clear consent.
Term 16
AH (Authentication Header) is an IPsec protocol that provides connectionless integrity, data origin authentication, and anti-replay protection for IP packets.
Term 17
AH (Authentication Header) is an IPsec protocol that provides connectionless integrity, data origin authentication, and anti-replay protection for IP packets.
Term 18
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed container orchestration service on Microsoft Azure that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes.
Term 19
An Application Load Balancer is a managed network service that distributes incoming web traffic across multiple target servers based on the content of the request, such as the URL path or HTTP headers.
Term 20
ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy) is a risk management formula that estimates the yearly monetary loss from a specific threat to an asset.
Term 21
An alert is a notification that something unusual or potentially harmful has happened in a computer system or network.
Term 22
Alert fatigue is the desensitization and overwhelming feeling security analysts experience when they receive so many security alerts that they begin to ignore or miss them.
Term 23
An alerting policy is a set of rules that defines when to send notifications about a system condition that needs attention.
Term 24
An Alias record is a DNS record type that maps a hostname to another hostname, seamlessly routing traffic to AWS resources like load balancers or CloudFront distributions.
Term 25
AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service from Google Cloud designed for high performance, scalability, and reliability for transactional and analytical workloads.
Term 26
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a scalable, fully managed cloud file storage service that can be accessed by multiple Amazon EC2 instances concurrently using the NFS protocol.
Term 27
Amazon FSx is a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, supporting popular file systems like Windows File Server and Lustre.
Term 28
Analytical data is information that has been cleaned, structured, and optimized for querying and reporting to support business decision-making.
Term 29
Anonymization is the process of removing or altering personally identifiable information so that an individual cannot be identified, directly or indirectly, from the remaining data.
Term 30
Ansible is an open-source automation tool that IT professionals use to configure systems, deploy software, and manage infrastructure without needing to install agent software on every managed machine.