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Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity 100-160 Official Cert Guide
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Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity 100-160 Official Cert Guide

by Shane Sexton, Raymond Lacoste
March 2024
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
11h 43m
English
Cisco Press
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Appendix B

Memory Tables

Chapter 1

Table 1-2 Common Terms and Definitions You Need to Know

Term

Definition

Examples

 

A weakness in any part of an enterprise that, if exploited, could jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the systems and the data.

Unpatched software

Use of superuser or admin account privileges

Open ports and protocols that are not needed

Unknown security bugs in software or programming interfaces

Unencrypted data on the network

Zero-day vulnerability

 

Anything that can take advantage of a vulnerability.

SQL injection attack

Cross-site scripting (XSS)

Buffer overflow

Memory safety violation

Input validation error

Remote code execution

Privilege escalation

Zero-day exploit

Cross-site request ...

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