Cybersecurity is acronym-heavy to say the least. If you’re reading this, you already know. From CVE to FTP, we in IT love our abbreviations, FR FR. Truthfully though, it can be a bit much. However, even the nerdiest among us miss a few. So, In Case You Missed It, here are 10 cybersecurity acronyms you should know IRL, err in 2023.
HUMINT
Peppermint on a sticky day? How dare you. HUMINT is short for Human Intelligence. This abbreviation refers to information collected by threat researchers from sources across the clear, deep and dark web. Real people doing real things, you might say. These folks are out there hunting down potential threats and stopping them before they occur. Pretty cool stuff, TBH.
CSPM
Cloud Security Posture Management tools include use cases for compliance assessment, operational monitoring, DevOps integrations, incident response, risk identification, and risk visualization. Good posture: so hot RN.
IAM
Not the guy with the green eggs, this IAM stands for Identity and Access Management. CSO online says IAM is a “set of processes, policies, and tools for defining and managing the roles and access privileges of individual network entities (users and devices) to a variety of cloud and on-premises applications'. Green Eggs and Ham didn’t age well IMO, Sam was kind of a bully. JK JK.
XDR
AKA Extended Detection and Response. Forrester calls XDR the “evolution of endpoint detection and response”. Gartner says it’s integrating “multiple security products into a cohesive security operations system”. Essen ..
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