Identity and access management (IAM) is the discipline of verifying who users are and controlling what they can do across the systems an organization runs. The category covers authentication (proving you’re who you say you are), authorization...
OpenAI Daybreak is the cybersecurity platform OpenAI announced on May 11, 2026, designed to find software vulnerabilities and validate patches inside customer codebases at scale. It is built on three tiers of GPT-5.5 plus Codex Security...
A data breach response plan is the documented set of procedures, decision authority, communication templates, and operational steps an organization activates when a data breach is detected. The plan exists because data breaches happen on a timeline...
The CIA triad is the foundational framework of cybersecurity. The three letters stand for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, and they describe the three properties every security program is trying to maintain. Almost any security control...
Disaster recovery planning is the discipline of preparing in advance to restore business operations after a major incident that takes systems offline. The incidents vary widely (ransomware, datacenter outage, hardware failure, natural disaster...
Endpoint security is the discipline of protecting the devices employees actually use to do their work: laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, and sometimes specialty devices like point-of-sale terminals or kiosks. The endpoints are where humans...
Hybrid work IT is the operational discipline of supporting employees who split their time between remote work and in-office work. The category emerged as widespread office return after pandemic-era full-remote settled into a long-term pattern of...
Social engineering is the family of cyberattacks that manipulate people into taking actions or revealing information that helps the attacker, rather than exploiting technical vulnerabilities directly. Phishing is the most familiar example, but...
HTTPS and SSL/TLS are the protocols that make encrypted web connections possible. When you visit a website and see the padlock icon in your browser’s address bar, the underlying technology is TLS (Transport Layer Security, the successor to the...
Security awareness training is the discipline of teaching employees to recognize, avoid, and respond to common security threats. It’s the layer of defense that sits next to (and is increasingly recognized as inseparable from) technical...
