Glossary

A security assessment involving a review of a system’s architecture or an in-depth hands-on assessment to identify as many potential vulnerabilities as possible.

The process of identifying, prioritising and responding to vulnerabilities.

A security assessment using tools to conduct automated checks for known vulnerabilities in a system and its environment.

Wide Area Network

Setting up a fake website (or compromising a real one) in order to infect and exploit visiting users.

Web Content Management

A technique used in non-volatile flash memory media to prolong the life of the media. As data can be written to and erased from memory blocks a finite number of times, wear-levelling helps to distribute writes evenly across each memory block, thereby decreasing wear and increasing its lifetime.

AKA wearables

A reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. Formally a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

In computing, a client-server computer program that the client runs in a web browser.