Glossary
Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms used across security, cloud cost and operations work.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Continuous checking of cloud accounts against security best practices and compliance frameworks to find misconfigurations before they are exploited.Read moreDORA Metrics
Four software delivery measures from the DevOps Research and Assessment program: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service.Read moreExploit Prediction Scoring System
A FIRST.org model that estimates the probability a published vulnerability will be exploited in the next 30 days.Read moreFinOps
The practice of bringing financial accountability to variable cloud spend, so engineering, finance and business teams make cost-aware decisions together.Read moreKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities
CISA's catalog of vulnerabilities with evidence of active exploitation in the wild, used to decide what to patch first.Read moreMean Time to Remediate
The average time from when an issue, such as a vulnerability or incident, is found to when it is fixed.Read moreService Level Objective
A target value for a service level indicator, such as 99.9% of requests succeeding over 30 days, that a team commits to meet.Read more