Glossary: Modern Vulnerabilities, Malware and Physical Attacks

Encryption

Also written: encrypt, encrypting

Scrambling data with a key so only someone with the key can read it. It protects Wi-Fi traffic and lost phones and laptops, and ransomware uses it against victims.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 1: Rogue devices, shadow IT, low-power wireless and LLMs
Chapter 2: Identity providers, mobile devices, misconfiguration and public storage
Chapter 3: Malware, part 1: ransomware, trojans, worms, spyware and adware
Chapter 5: Physical attacks

Related terms

Full disk encryption Ransomware