Understand The Language Of Cybersecurity

By John Ford, ConnectWise

When you get started working around cybersecurity, it can sound like people are speaking a foreign language. Like most of the IT industry, cybersecurity has a language of its own. We’ve all become familiar with the basic security terms and aspects when we secure our personal data and information, but when you go deeper into the rabbit hole, the more technical things can get.

Let’s go over some commonly used terms you’ll hear so you can talk the talk when it comes to cybersecurity.

Antivirus / Anti-malware

A program that monitors a computer or network to detect or identify major types of malicious code and to prevent or contain malware incidents, sometimes by removing or neutralizing the malicious code.