Threat Management Terms and Concepts Flashcards

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Explain the term 'exploit'.
Name a common source of threat intelligence.
Explain threat hunting.
An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur.
Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities.
What is vulnerability management?
Define phishing.
What is a botnet?
Threat hunting is a proactive cybersecurity search through networks and endpoints to find malicious actors that have evaded existing security solutions.
A botnet is a number of internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers.
Common sources include open-source intelligence (OSINT), commercial threat intelligence providers, and internal threat data.