Less Common Acronyms
Firewall: Your Network's First Line of Defense
A firewall is a security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on rules, deciding what gets through and what gets blocked before it reaches your systems. Firewalls have been around long enough that most people ...
Mesh Wi-Fi vs. Range Extenders: How Mesh Works and When It's Worth It
Mesh Wi-Fi replaces the patchwork of routers and extenders most offices collect over the years with one coordinated network that covers the whole building under a single network name. This comes up constantly during onsite assessments. The Wi-Fi ...
WORM (Write Once, Read Many): Storage Built to Resist Tampering
WORM (Write Once, Read Many) is storage that lets you write data once and then locks it, so it can be read but not changed or deleted until its retention period ends. The name sounds like it belongs in a biology textbook, but WORM is one of the most ...
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response): Security's Autopilot, With a Pilot
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) is the air traffic controller for your security tools: it connects them and runs pre-built response playbooks so routine threats get handled quickly and the same way every time. If you've read ...
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management): Your Network's Flight Recorder
A SIEM is the flight recorder for your network: it collects every login, alert and odd little event in one searchable place, then flags the patterns that look wrong. SIEM sits in the same family as EDR, MDR and XDR. It's the older member of the ...