Terminology


No Word Definition
1 Faraday Cage A protective shield that is formed through the use of conductive materials.
2 Link Encryption Encryption and decryption occurs at every stage of the network.
3 End to End Encryption Encryption only occurs at the sender’s end while decryptions only occurring at the receiver’s end. Nothing in between.
4 Eavesdropping The practice of ’listening in’ to data being transmitted between two points in a network.
5 Traffic Analysis Traffic or data is gathered, examined and analyzed to generate patterns.
6 Denial of Service Attack An attack that overloads the system or network causing it to slow down and eventually stopping it from functioning.