Glossary

Gaining unauthorized access to users accounts.

Reasonable effort to satisfy a request but without guaranteeing success.

The creation of balanced and aesthetically pleasing color combinations.

The study of how colors interact with each other and how they can influence people’s emotions and perceptions.

A circular diagram used to show the relationships between colors.

Identity and access management is a framework of policies, technologies, and business processes aimed at facilitating the management of digital identities and their access.

Cybersecurity discipline that includes tools and best practices for protecting user identities and identity systems from cyber threats.

An umbrella term that covers all technical means used to handle information and facilitate communication.

The study or use of hardware and software to manage, store, retrieve, and deliver data.

Native or built-in feature or functionality of a product, included by default and that works immediately after first setup.

Security concept whereby a user or service is granted the minimum levels of access and authorization necessary to perform the requested task.

Reported at the same time something takes place or delivered in a short time.

Used to describe a computer system that guarantee to process events and perform tasks within a specific time constraints.

Targeted duration of time between the event of failure and the point where operations resume.

Agreed maximum time, based on risk analysis, between the failure event and the restoration of operations.

Mechanism designed to prevent errors and fraud by dividing the actions required to complete a task among different employees.

A comprehensive inventory of all the components used in a software.

The load balancer decrypts the incoming encrypted traffic (same as in SSL-Termination) and re-encrypts it when sending to the destination (e.g. backend instances).

The load balancer passes the encrypted traffic to the destination (e.g. backend instances) without decrypting it.

Because the load balancer only sees encrypted traffic, it is not possible to perform layer 7 (OSI model) actions.

The load balancer decrypts the incoming encrypted traffic and sends it to the destination (e.g. backend instances) unencrypted.