Glossary

A physical space where business is performed. For example, a facility can be a building, a floor of a building or a designated space on the floor of a building.

Sending counterfeit email by using a legitimate sender's address without their knowledge.

A trader that is in not legitimate.

A website that is not legitimate.

A device that allows documents to be communicated over an analogue telephone network.

A trust relationship between identity systems that allows authentication and authorisation in one system to be recognised by another.

A particularly lightweight thread of execution. Like threads, fibres share address space. However, fibres use cooperative multitasking while threads use pre-emptive multitasking.

Federal Information Processing Standard

A network device that filters incoming and outgoing network data based on a series of rules.

Software embedded in IT equipment or OT equipment.