CyberMap glossary

Cybersecurity glossary

Clear definitions of 810 security terms — and how they connect on the interactive map.

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Padding

Padding is the process of adding extra data to a plaintext message to ensure that its length is a multiple of the block size required by a block ciph…

Private CA

A private CA is a Certificate Authority that is operated within an organization for internal use. It's used to issue certificates for internal server…

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a system for creating, managing, distributing, using, storing, and revoking digital certificates. It involves Cert…