🔐 Cybersecurity Glossary
Over 291 professional cybersecurity terms in English & Arabic — your comprehensive reference for the cybersecurity world
291 terms
16 categories
74 frameworks
All
🏛 Governance & Strategy 35
⚖ Risk Management 17
🔑 Identity & Access 14
🌐 Network Security 16
🔒 Data Protection 11
⚡ Threat & Attack 22
🚨 Incident Response 13
☑ Compliance & Audit 12
🔐 Cryptography 11
☁ Cloud Security 9
💻 Application Security 11
§ Privacy & Data Law 12
🛡 Security Operations 17
♻ Business Continuity 9
🇸🇦 Saudi Regulations 14
🛡️ Platform Tools 1
NCA_ECC (122)
SAMA_CSF (76)
PCI_DSS (47)
PDPL (42)
ISO_27001 (39)
SAMA CSF (32)
NCA ECC (31)
NIST_CSF (29)
Array (26)
ISO 27001 (16)
19 terms
🔑 Passwordless Authentication
المصادقة بدون كلمة مرور
Authentication methods that verify user identity without traditional passwords, using biometrics, tokens, or cryptographic keys.
🛡 Patch Management
إدارة التحديثات الأمنية
The process of distributing and applying updates to software to fix vulnerabilities and improve security.
💻 Penetration Testing
Pentest
اختبار الاختراق
An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system to evaluate its security and identify vulnerabilities.
§ Personal Data
PII
البيانات الشخصية
Any data that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Personal Data Processing
PDP
معالجة البيانات الشخصية
Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, including collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, transmission, erasure, or destruction, whether automated or manual.
🇸🇦 Personal Data Protection Law
PDPL
نظام حماية البيانات الشخصية
Saudi Arabia's comprehensive data protection law issued by Royal Decree M/19, administered by SDAIA.
🏛 Personal Data Protection Law
PDPL
نظام حماية البيانات الشخصية
Saudi Arabia's data protection law enacted by Royal Decree in September 2021 and enforced from September 2023. Governs collection, processing, storage, and transfer of personal data, requiring consent, DPO appointment, and 72-hour breach notification to SDAIA.
Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) Compliance
PDPL
الامتثال لنظام حماية البيانات الشخصية
The adherence to Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law, which establishes requirements for the collection, processing, storage, and transfer of personal data to protect individuals' privacy rights and ensure data controllers and processors implement appropriate technical and organizational measures.
⚡ Phishing
التصيد الاحتيالي
A social engineering attack that uses deceptive emails, websites, or messages to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information.
🚨 Playbook
دليل الإجراءات
A predefined set of actions and procedures for responding to a specific type of security incident.
🔐 Post-Quantum Cryptography
PQC
التشفير ما بعد الكم
Cryptographic algorithms designed to be secure against attacks from both classical and quantum computers.
§ Privacy by Design
PbD
الخصوصية حسب التصميم
An approach where privacy and data protection are embedded into the design of systems and business practices from the outset.
Privacy Impact Assessment
PIA
تقييم أثر الخصوصية
A systematic process to identify and evaluate potential privacy risks associated with data processing activities, particularly when implementing new technologies, systems, or processes that handle personal data. Under PDPL and SAMA CSF requirements, organizations must conduct PIAs before processing high-risk personal data to ensure compliance and implement appropriate safeguards.
🔑 Privileged Access Management
PAM
إدارة الوصول المميز
A set of cybersecurity strategies and technologies for exerting control over elevated access and permissions for users, accounts, and systems.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
PAM
إدارة الوصول المميز
A subset of IAM that focuses on managing and monitoring accounts with elevated privileges, such as system administrators and database administrators. PAM solutions control, monitor, and secure privileged credentials to prevent unauthorized access to critical systems and sensitive data.
§ Pseudonymization
الترميز المستعار
Processing personal data so it can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information.
🔐 Public Key Infrastructure
PKI
البنية التحتية للمفتاح العام
A framework of encryption and cybersecurity that protects communications between servers and clients using digital certificates.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
PKI
البنية التحتية للمفتاح العام
A framework of policies, procedures, hardware, software, and people used to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. PKI enables secure electronic communications and is required by NCA ECC for government entities and SAMA CSF for financial institutions to authenticate users, encrypt data, and ensure non-repudiation of digital transactions.
🛡 Purple Team
الفريق البنفسجي
A collaborative approach combining Red Team and Blue Team exercises to improve security effectiveness.