Term 391
GitHub Advanced Security
GitHub Advanced Security is a suite of security tools integrated into GitHub that helps developers find and fix vulnerabilities, secrets, and code quality issues directly in their repositories.
Acronym study
Terms 391–420 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 391
GitHub Advanced Security is a suite of security tools integrated into GitHub that helps developers find and fix vulnerabilities, secrets, and code quality issues directly in their repositories.
Term 392
GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in the cloud.
Term 393
Global infrastructure refers to the worldwide network of data centers, servers, and connectivity resources that cloud providers use to deliver services reliably and at scale to users across the globe.
Term 394
A global table is a single database table that is automatically replicated across multiple geographic regions, allowing applications to read and write data with low latency from anywhere in the world.
Term 395
Global VNet peering is a networking feature that connects two virtual networks located in different Azure regions, allowing resources in each network to communicate directly through the Microsoft backbone.
Term 396
Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides infrastructure, platform, and software solutions over the internet.
Term 397
A Google Cloud project is a container that holds all your cloud resources like virtual machines, databases, and storage, acting as the main building block for organizing and managing everything you do in Google Cloud.
Term 398
A Google Cloud region is a specific geographic location where you can deploy and run cloud resources, consisting of at least three zones to provide high availability and low latency.
Term 399
A Google Cloud zone is a deployable location within a region where you can place your cloud resources like virtual machines and storage.
Term 400
Google dorking is the practice of using advanced search operators in Google to uncover sensitive information that companies or individuals unintentionally expose on the internet.
Term 401
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud that lets you deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications without having to operate the underlying cluster control plane.
Term 402
Governance is the framework of policies, processes, and controls that ensures IT activities align with business goals and comply with regulations.
Term 403
GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a free, open-source encryption tool that allows users to securely encrypt, decrypt, and sign data and communications.
Term 404
AWS GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior in an AWS environment.
Term 405
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a cloud service that distributes traffic to third-party virtual appliances like firewalls and intrusion detection systems at scale.
Term 406
Hardening is the process of securing a computer system or network by reducing its attack surface, disabling unnecessary services, and applying security configurations.
Term 407
A specialized hardware appliance that securely generates, stores, and manages cryptographic keys in a tamper-resistant environment for enterprise security systems.
Term 408
Hashing is a one-way mathematical function that converts any input data into a fixed-length string of characters, called a hash or digest, which is used to verify data integrity and store passwords securely.
Term 409
A health check is an automated test that monitors whether a system, application, container, or network service is running correctly and can respond to requests.
Term 410
High availability is a system design approach that aims to keep applications and services operational and accessible with minimal downtime, even when some components fail.
Term 411
HIPAA is a U.S. law that sets national standards for protecting sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
Term 412
A host firewall is a software-based security tool that runs directly on an individual device, such as a laptop, server, or desktop, to monitor and control incoming and outgoing network traffic based on a set of security rules.
Term 413
A hosted zone is a container for DNS records that holds the information needed to route internet traffic for a domain name.
Term 414
A hub is a basic networking device that connects multiple computers or devices together so they can communicate, but it sends all data to every connected port without filtering.
Term 415
A hunting query is a proactive, iterative Kusto Query Language (KQL) query used in Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Sentinel to search for hidden threats, anomalies, and indicators of compromise across security data.
Term 416
Hybrid Azure AD join is a Microsoft identity configuration that registers on-premises domain-joined devices with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to enable single sign-on and access to both on-premises and cloud resources.
Term 417
A hybrid cloud is a computing environment that combines a private cloud (on-premises infrastructure) with one or more public cloud services, allowing data and applications to be shared between them.
Term 418
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS, is the secure version of HTTP that encrypts data between a web browser and a website using SSL/TLS to protect sensitive information like passwords and credit card numbers.
Term 419
A hypervisor is software that creates and runs virtual machines by allowing multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
Term 420
Hypothesis-driven hunting is a proactive security approach where analysts form educated guesses about potential threats and then actively search for evidence to confirm or refute those guesses.