Term 61
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is a free service that lets you centrally manage multiple AWS accounts, apply security policies, and control billing across your entire cloud environment.
Acronym study
Terms 61–90 of 754 ISC2 CC 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 61
AWS Organizations is a free service that lets you centrally manage multiple AWS accounts, apply security policies, and control billing across your entire cloud environment.
Term 62
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS from attacks that try to overwhelm them with traffic.
Term 63
AWS SSO is a cloud-based service that lets you sign in once (single sign-on) to access multiple AWS accounts and business applications from one central place.
Term 64
AWS Support plans are tiered service packages that provide varying levels of technical support, guidance, and response times for AWS cloud environments.
Term 65
AWS WAF is a cloud-based web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting by allowing you to define customizable rules.
Term 66
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that lets employees sign in and access resources both in the cloud and on-premises.
Term 67
Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that lets you manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases running outside of Azure as if they were native Azure resources.
Term 68
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and managing sensitive information like passwords, encryption keys, and certificates.
Term 69
Azure Policy is a service in Microsoft Azure that lets you create, assign, and manage rules to ensure your resources stay compliant with your company standards and service-level agreements.
Term 70
The Azure Pricing Calculator is a free web-based tool from Microsoft that helps you estimate the cost of Azure cloud services by configuring resources like virtual machines, storage, and databases.
Term 71
An Azure role is a set of permissions that defines what actions a user, group, or application can perform on specific Azure resources.
Term 72
Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) service that uses intelligent analytics to help protect an enterprise's entire digital estate.
Term 73
Azure Service Health is a personalized dashboard that provides real-time information about the health of your Azure services, including current and past outages, planned maintenance, and advisory messages.
Term 74
Azure Status is a service health dashboard that shows the current operational state of all Microsoft Azure cloud services and regions in real time.
Term 75
A baseline is a documented starting point for the normal performance and behavior of a system, network, or component, used to detect changes and troubleshoot issues.
Term 76
A baseline configuration is a documented set of specifications for hardware, software, and settings that serves as a consistent starting point for systems in an IT environment.
Term 77
BCP is a proactive process that creates a framework to ensure critical business functions continue during and after a disruptive event.
Term 78
A formal security model that prevents users from reading information at a higher classification level than their own and from writing information down to a lower classification level.
Term 79
BeyondCorp is a zero-trust security model developed by Google that shifts access control from the network perimeter to individual users and devices, enabling secure work from any location without a traditional VPN.
Term 80
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a systematic process used to identify and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident, or emergency.
Term 81
Biba is a security model that uses a lattice-based system to enforce integrity, ensuring that data cannot be corrupted by unauthorized or less trustworthy subjects.
Term 82
Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) used to declare Azure resources in a declarative, modular way, similar to how you write code but for infrastructure.
Term 83
A billing account in Google Cloud is a container for all the charges generated by using cloud resources, linked to a payment method and used to track and pay for your usage.
Term 84
Binary Authorization is a security control that ensures only trusted container images are deployed in a Kubernetes or cloud environment.
Term 85
Biometrics is the technology that uses unique physical or behavioral traits, like fingerprints or voice patterns, to verify a person's identity.
Term 86
BitLocker is a full-disk encryption feature built into Windows that protects data by encrypting the entire drive so that unauthorized users cannot access files without the correct recovery key.
Term 87
The Blue team is the group of cybersecurity professionals responsible for defending an organization's systems, networks, and data against attacks and maintaining the security posture.
Term 88
A blueprint in IT certification is a document that outlines the topics, skills, and weighting for an exam, telling you exactly what to study.
Term 89
Brewer-Nash is a security model that prevents conflicts of interest by restricting access to data based on the user's past access history and organizational membership.
Term 90
A policy allowing employees to use their personal laptops, smartphones, or tablets for work tasks instead of using company-issued equipment.