Term 61
Bring Your Own Device
A policy allowing employees to use their personal laptops, smartphones, or tablets for work tasks instead of using company-issued equipment.
Acronym study
Terms 61–90 of 610 SY0-701 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
A policy allowing employees to use their personal laptops, smartphones, or tablets for work tasks instead of using company-issued equipment.
Term 62
Broadcast OSPF is a mode of OSPF operation used on multi-access broadcast networks (like Ethernet) where routers automatically discover neighbors and elect a Designated Router to reduce routing update traffic.
Term 63
Broken access control is a security vulnerability that occurs when an application does not properly enforce restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do, allowing them to access unauthorized data or perform unauthorized actions.
Term 64
A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to obtain information such as a user password or personal identification number (PIN).
Term 65
Business continuity is the capability of an organization to continue delivering essential services during and after a disruptive event.
Term 66
Business Continuity Planning is the process of creating a strategy to keep an organization's essential functions running during and after a major disruption.
Term 67
Business email compromise is a sophisticated cyberattack where a criminal impersonates a trusted person or organization via email to trick the victim into transferring money or revealing sensitive information.
Term 68
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 69
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a policy allowing employees to use their personal devices for work tasks, increasing flexibility but introducing security and management challenges.
Term 70
A Cloud Access Security Broker is a security policy enforcement point placed between cloud service consumers and cloud providers to monitor, control, and protect access to cloud resources.
Term 71
A trusted entity that issues digital certificates to verify the identity of websites, devices, and users in secure online communications.
Term 72
Certificate pinning is a security technique that associates a specific digital certificate or public key with a particular server, so that an app or system will only trust that exact certificate, rejecting any others even if they are issued by a trusted certificate authority.
Term 73
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a specially formatted message sent by an applicant to a Certificate Authority (CA) to request a digital certificate that binds their public key to their identity.
Term 74
A certificate warning is a security alert a web browser or application displays when it cannot fully trust the digital certificate presented by a website or service.
Term 75
Chain of custody is a documented process that tracks the handling, transfer, and possession of evidence or digital assets from the moment they are collected until they are presented in court or used in an investigation.
Term 76
Change management is the structured process of planning, approving, implementing, and reviewing changes to IT systems to minimize risk and disruption.
Term 77
The CIA triad is a foundational security model that guides organizations in protecting data through confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Term 78
Cloud Audit Logs are a record of actions taken by users, services, and resources inside a cloud environment, capturing who did what, when, and from where.
Term 79
A managed domain name system service that translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, enabling reliable and scalable network routing in cloud environments.
Term 80
Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a framework of policies and technologies that ensures the right individuals have appropriate access to cloud resources at the right time and for the right reasons.
Term 81
A Cloud management gateway is a network appliance or software service that securely connects devices on a local network to a cloud-based management platform, enabling remote monitoring, configuration, and updates.
Term 82
Cloud NAT is a managed network address translation service that allows private cloud resources to initiate outbound internet connections while keeping them unreachable from the internet.
Term 83
A cloud router is a virtual networking device in a cloud environment that manages traffic between different virtual networks and connects them to on-premises networks using dynamic routing protocols.
Term 84
Cloud security architecture is the design and organization of security controls, policies, and technologies used to protect data, applications, and infrastructure in a cloud computing environment.
Term 85
Cloud security posture management is the continuous process of monitoring cloud environments to detect misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks, and automatically remediating them to maintain a strong security posture.
Term 86
A Cloud VPN is a service that securely connects your private network to a cloud provider's network over the public internet using encryption and authentication.
Term 87
A Common Access Card (CAC) is a smart card issued by the U.S. Department of Defense that serves as a single identification, authentication, and access credential for military personnel and contractors.
Term 88
Communication Compliance is the set of policies, tools, and practices used by organizations to monitor, capture, and review electronic communications in order to meet regulatory, legal, and internal governance requirements.
Term 89
Compartmented security mode is a multilevel security (MLS) system where subjects are cleared for all sensitivity levels but only have access to specific compartments of information based on their need-to-know.
Term 90
Compliance is the process of ensuring that an organization follows laws, regulations, standards, and internal policies that apply to its operations and data handling.