Glossary

A program that uses exercises and other readiness activities that target strategic decision-making, operational and technical capabilities, strategic engagement and communications. Through these exercises the program can help broaden your understanding of the roles and responsibilities of key government entities and private sector organisations when responding to a cybersecurity incident.

The principle of restricting access to only the data required to fulfil an authorised role or function.

Two or more computer systems linked together

Security policies used to control access to a network and actions on a network. This can include authentication checks and authorisation controls.

IT equipment designed to facilitate the communication of data. For example, routers, switches and wireless access points.

The infrastructure used to carry data between workstations and servers or other network devices.

Network traffic generated over a network to manage or control workstations, servers and network devices. This includes standard management protocols and other network traffic that contains data relating to the management of the network.

Partitioning a network into smaller networks; compare with network segregation.

Developing and enforcing a rule set for controlling the communications between specific hosts and services; compare with network segmentation.

The linking of computers to allow them to operate interactively.