Term 931
Triage
Triage is the process of quickly assessing and prioritizing security incidents based on their severity, impact, and urgency to determine the appropriate response.
Acronym study
Terms 931–960 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 931
Triage is the process of quickly assessing and prioritizing security incidents based on their severity, impact, and urgency to determine the appropriate response.
Term 932
A Trojan is a type of malware that disguises itself as a legitimate file or program to trick users into installing it, then performs harmful actions without the user's knowledge.
Term 933
A true negative is a test result that correctly identifies the absence of a condition or threat, meaning no false alarm occurred.
Term 934
A true positive is when a security tool correctly identifies a real threat or malicious activity.
Term 935
A trust boundary is the logical or physical line that separates a trusted, secure area from an untrusted, potentially hostile environment in a computer system or network.
Term 936
A Trusted Advisor is an IT professional who earns deep client trust through expert guidance, ethical behavior, and a focus on the client’s long-term success rather than just selling products.
Term 937
The trusted computing base is the entire set of hardware, firmware, and software components that are critical to a system's security, meaning that any flaw in these components can break the entire security policy.
Term 938
A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a dedicated microcontroller chip that securely stores cryptographic keys, passwords, and certificates to protect a computer's hardware and ensure system integrity.
Term 939
TTP stands for Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, which describe the behavior patterns and methods used by threat actors in cybersecurity attacks.
Term 940
User Account Control is a Windows security feature that prevents unauthorized changes to your computer by asking for permission before allowing certain actions.
Term 941
UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a user-friendly command-line interface for managing iptables firewall rules on Linux systems, designed to simplify network security configuration.
Term 942
Umask (user file-creation mode mask) is a Linux/Unix setting that determines the default permissions assigned to new files and directories by subtracting or masking permission bits from a base set.
Term 943
Underfitting occurs when a machine learning model is too simple to capture the underlying patterns in the training data, resulting in poor performance on both training and new data.
Term 944
Unified Threat Management (UTM) is a single security appliance or service that combines multiple network security functions like firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and content filtering into one device.
Term 945
An unmanaged instance group is a collection of virtual machine instances that you manage individually, without the automatic scaling, healing, and rolling update features provided by managed instance groups.
Term 946
Unstructured data is information that does not have a predefined data model or is not organized in a predefined manner, making it difficult for traditional databases to read and process.
Term 947
Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning where an algorithm finds patterns, groupings, or structure in data without being given labeled examples or correct answers.
Term 948
An uptime check is a monitoring test that verifies whether a system or service is running and accessible over a network.
Term 949
A use case is a description of how a specific user or system interacts with a system to achieve a particular goal, often used in security operations to define required functions and validate system behavior.
Term 950
User Account Control (UAC) is a Windows security feature that prevents unauthorized changes to the operating system by prompting for permission before allowing actions that affect system settings or installed programs.
Term 951
User behaviour analytics (UBA) is a cybersecurity process that monitors and analyzes patterns in how users interact with systems to detect abnormal actions that may indicate a security threat.
Term 952
Unified Threat Management (UTM) is a comprehensive security appliance that combines multiple security functions like firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and VPN into a single device.
Term 953
Validation data is a subset of data used during the training of a machine learning model to tune its hyperparameters and evaluate its performance on unseen data before final testing.
Term 954
Verify explicitly means that a system must actively confirm a user's identity or permissions before granting access, rather than trusting implied or cached credentials.
Term 955
Vertex AI is a unified platform from Google Cloud that lets you build, deploy, and scale machine learning models using a single set of tools and services.
Term 956
A view is a saved query in a database that acts like a virtual table, letting you see specific data without storing it separately.
Term 957
Virtualization security is the practice of protecting virtualized environments including virtual machines, hypervisors, virtual networks, and related infrastructure from threats and vulnerabilities.
Term 958
A virus is a malicious software program that attaches itself to legitimate files or programs and spreads to other systems, often causing damage or stealing information.
Term 959
Vision AI is a Google Cloud service that uses machine learning to analyze images and videos, extracting meaningful information without requiring custom model building.
Term 960
A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is a logical grouping of network devices that behave as if they are on the same physical network segment, regardless of their actual physical location.