Technology Abbreviations

A team focused on running the day-to-day tasks of a Security Operations Center (SOC). A collaboration between security and operations.

Security Operations Center (SOC) is a team dedicated to securing the enterprise.

Security Information and Event Management combines SIM and SEM.

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) is a solution stack of compatible software programs that allow an organization to collect data about security threats from multiple sources and respond to low-level security events without human assistance.

Common Event Format (CEF) is an extensible text-based log standard that defines a syntax for log records that include the most relevant information to support multiple device types.

Cloud Security Posture Management

Cloud Workload Platform Protection

Threat hunting is the process of iteratively searching through a variety of data to identify threats in the systems.

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a standardized format for storing and sending data. Similar to HTML, XML stores data by wrapping it in descriptive tags.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is similar to XML in that it also stores and enables you to send data in a standardized format. JSON uses a different, object-based methodology for systematically storing data.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the foundation of transferring data and communications on the internet.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol used for exchanging structured information[XML data] over a network.

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a standardized architectural style used when creating a web API.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of definitions and protocols that allow one application to communicate with another application.

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)