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Asset inventory
An asset inventory is a comprehensive, up-to-date list of all hardware and software assets within an organization, used to identify vulnerabilities and manage security risks.
Acronym study
Terms 61–90 of 1222 SK0-005 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
An asset inventory is a comprehensive, up-to-date list of all hardware and software assets within an organization, used to identify vulnerabilities and manage security risks.
Term 62
Asset management is the process of tracking and maintaining all the hardware and software items a company owns throughout their entire life cycle.
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Assume breach is a security mindset where an organization operates as if attackers have already compromised their network, shifting focus to rapid detection, containment, and damage limitation rather than only prevention.
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Assured Workloads is a set of cloud security controls that help organizations run sensitive workloads in a trusted, verified environment on Google Cloud.
Term 65
The 'at' command schedules a one-time task to run at a specified future time on a Linux or Unix system.
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The attack chain (or kill chain) is a model that describes the stages of a cyberattack, from initial reconnaissance to the final objective, helping defenders understand and disrupt each phase.
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Attack simulation training is a Microsoft 365 security tool that lets IT administrators run realistic phishing and password-attack campaigns against their own users to identify vulnerabilities and improve security awareness.
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Attack surface management is the continuous process of identifying, monitoring, and reducing all the possible entry points an attacker could use to break into an organization's IT systems.
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Attack surface reduction is a set of security practices that minimizes the number of ways an attacker can access or exploit a system by removing unnecessary features, locking down configurations, and controlling software behavior.
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An Audio Processing Unit (APU) is a dedicated processor designed specifically to handle all sound-related tasks in a computer or device, freeing up the main CPU for other work.
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Audit logging is the process of recording a chronological, tamper-evident trail of who did what, when, and where inside a computer system or network.
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An audit trail is a chronological record of events, changes, or activities in a system that provides evidence of who did what, when, and from where.
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An authenticated scan is a vulnerability scan that uses valid credentials to log into a system and examine it from the inside, providing a more thorough assessment of security weaknesses than an unauthenticated scan.
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Authentication is the process of verifying that someone or something is who or what it claims to be before granting access to a system or resource.
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An authentication log is a record of all attempts to verify a user's identity when accessing a system, including successes, failures, and associated metadata.
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An authenticator app is a software application on your phone or computer that generates temporary codes used to prove your identity when logging into online accounts.
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A file on a server that stores the public keys of users who are allowed to log in without a password using SSH key-based authentication.
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A fallback method used by a device to automatically assign itself an IP address when it cannot obtain one from a DHCP server.
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An Autopilot profile is a collection of configuration settings that dictates how a new Windows device will be set up and delivered to an end user with minimal IT intervention.
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An open-source digital forensics platform used to analyze hard drives, recover deleted files, and uncover evidence from computers and storage media.
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Availability management is the practice of ensuring that IT services and systems are operational and accessible when users need them.
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AWS CloudTrail is a service that records every action taken in your AWS account, like a security camera that logs who did what and when.
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AWS Config is a service that continuously records, evaluates, and reports on changes to your AWS resources so you can maintain a secure and compliant infrastructure.
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AWS Config Rules are customizable, automated checks that continuously evaluate your AWS resource configurations against desired compliance or security policies and alert you when a resource is noncompliant.
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AWS Firewall Manager is a centralized security management service that lets you configure and enforce firewall rules across all accounts and resources in your AWS organization from a single place.
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AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that uses Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises environments.
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AWS Support plans are tiered service packages that provide varying levels of technical support, guidance, and response times for AWS cloud environments.
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AWS Systems Manager is a management service that helps you view and control your AWS infrastructure, automate operational tasks, and maintain security and compliance across your cloud and on-premises resources.
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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.
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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.