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Simple Network Management Protocol
A TCP/IP protocol that monitors network-attached devices and computers. It’s usually incorporated as part of a network management system. |
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| The process of measuring changes in networking, hardware, software, and so on. |
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| Identification of the security posture of an application, system, or network. |
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| The risk level to which a system, or other technology element, is exposed. |
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Security Posture Assessments
Assessments that use baseline reporting and other analyses to discover vulnerabilities and weaknesses in systems and networks. |
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| Technical assessments made of applications, systems, or networks. |
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| Files that log activity of users. They show who did what and when, plus whether they succeeded or failed in their attempt. |
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| The idea of ensuring that a person or group cannot refute the validity of your proof against them. |
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| Signature-Based Monitoring |
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| Frames and packets of network traffic are analyzed for predetermined attack patterns. These attack patterns are known as signatures. |
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| Also known as statistical anomaly based; establishes a performance baseline based on a set of normal network traffic evaluations. |
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| Behavior-Based Monitoring |
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| A monitoring system that looks at the previous behavior of applications, executables, and/or the operating system and compares that to current activity on the system. |
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| Records or logs that show the tracked actions of users, whether the user was successful in the attempt. |
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| In a network adapter, this passes all traffic to the CPU, not just the frames addressed to it. When the network adapter captures all packets that it has access to regardless of the destination for those packets. |
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| When a network adapter captures only the packets that are addressed to it. |
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| When there is an accumulation of broadcast and multicast packet traffic on the LAN coming from one or more network interfaces. |
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Simple Network Management Protocol Agent
Software deployed by the network management system that is loaded on managed devices. The software redirects the information that the NMS needs to monitor the remote managed devices. |
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Network Management System
The software run on one or more servers that controls the monitoring of network attached devices and computers. |
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