Tag: Database

In cybersecurity, understanding the differences between risk, vulnerability, and threats is crucial for effective risk management and mitigation. Risk This is the potential loss, damage or destruction of an asset due to a threat exploiting a vulnerability, representing the likelihood of a threat causing harm and...

Network Address Translation (NAT) This is a method that allows multiple devices on a local network to be mapped to a single public IP address, which conserves the number of public IP addresses needed. How it works Private to Public - When a device on a private...

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are malicious attempts to disrupt the normal functioning of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic. Volume-Based Attacks These attacks aim to consume the bandwidth of the target network or service. UDP Flood: This...