The glossary

Cybersecurity Glossary

Learn about Cybrary's impact initiatives where we focus on reducing industry-wide gatekeeping, improving security teams, and making a difference throughout the cybersecurity industry and beyond.

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Letter for filtering (will be hidden in prod) :

F

Forensic Examination

Forensic examination is the investigation to evaluate, analyze, organize, preserve, and document evidence, including digital evidence that helps identify the cause of an incident.

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F

Firmware

Firmware consists of the programs and data components of a cryptographic module that are stored in hardware within the cryptographic boundary and cannot be dynamically written or modified during execution.

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F

Firewall Control Proxy

A firewall control proxy is the component that controls a firewall’s handling of a call. The firewall control proxy can instruct the firewall to open specific ports that are needed by a call, and direct the firewall to close these ports at call termination.

Letter for filtering (will be hidden in prod) :

F

File Name Anomaly

File name anomaly is a mismatch between the internal file header and its external extension. A file name anomaly is also a file name inconsistent with the content of the file (e.g., renaming a graphics file with a non-graphical extension).

Letter for filtering (will be hidden in prod) :

F

Forensic Copy

Forensic copy is an accurate bit-for-bit reproduction of the information contained on an electronic device or associated media, whose validity and integrity has been verified using an accepted algorithm.

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F

Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKI PA)

The federal PKI policy authority is a federal government body responsible for setting, implementing, and administering policy decisions regarding interagency PKI interoperability that uses the FBCA.

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F

Full Disk Encryption (FDE)

Full disk encryption is the process of encrypting all the data on the hard disk drive used to boot a computer, including the computer’s operating system, and permitting access to the data only after successful authentication with the full disk encryption product.

Letter for filtering (will be hidden in prod) :

F

Freeware

Freeware is an application, program, or software available for use at no cost.

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F

Forward Cipher

A forward cipher is one of the two functions of the block cipher algorithm that is determined by the choice of a cryptographic key. The term “forward cipher operation” is used for TDEA, while the term “forward transformation” is used for dea.

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F

File Protection

File protection is the aggregate of processes and procedures designed to inhibit unauthorized access, contamination, elimination, modification, or destruction of a file or any of its contents.