CybB0rg – Cybersecurity Knowledge Base

In cybersecurity, understanding the differences between risk, vulnerability, and threats is crucial for effective risk management and mitigation. Risk This is the potential loss, damage or destruction of an asset due to a...

The kernel is a fundamental part of any Operating System, acting as the bridge between software and hardware. It’s responsible for managing the system’s resources, allowing applications to interact with hardware...

A proxy acts as an intermediary between a client and a server, it’s very often used for filtering, caching, and logging web requests. Types Forward Proxy - Used by clients to access the...

Log4j is a widely-used Java-based library developed by Apache Software Foundation that’s designed to enable developers log various levels of information (trace, debug, info, warn, error, and fatal) from their applications...

This is the process of gathering, analysing, and utilizing information about potential or current threats to an organization’s digital assets focusing on understanding the threat landscape identifying threat actors, and anticipating...

Understanding these concepts is crucial for accurate threat detection and response as it helps to evaluate and improve the accuracy of security measures, ensuring they are reliable and effective at detecting...

This aspect of cybersecurity focuses on developing methods and strategies to detect malicious activities within an organization’s network and systems. It involves creating, deploying, and maintaining detection mechanisms such as alerts,...

Network Address Translation (NAT) This is a method that allows multiple devices on a local network to be mapped to a single public IP address, which conserves the number of public IP...

Tokenization is a data security technique where data is replaced by non-sensitive equivalents, called tokens. These tokens can be used in the system without exposing the sensitive data. Where is Tokenization Used? This...

Bus Topology This setup connects all devices (Network Nodes) in a sequence on a single cable or ‘bus’. Data travels back and forth along the bus, and devices listen for data meant...