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Definitions of the technical terms we use in load balancing, security, threat intelligence, and other application infrastructure.

A
IP Address API Rate Limits API Authentication API Access Control API Security API Gateway Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application Programming Interface (API) Application Server Account Takeover A+ SSL Rating Application Layer Firewall Application Intelligence AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Application Delivery Application Load Balancing Asymmetric Deployment Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Application Acceleration Active-Passive vs Active-Active Redundancy Application Firewall Anti-Phishing Advanced Compression ActiveX
B
Big Data Botnet Bot Buffer Overflow
C
Client-Server Model Containers vs Virtual Machines: What's The Difference Control Plane vs Data Plane Control Plane Cloud Abuse Cloud Native Client-Side vs Server-Side Scripting CSS Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Content Management System (CMS) Content Delivery Network (CDN) Content Scraping Cyber Security Cloud Load Balancer Cookie Poisoning Connection Flooding Clientless Remote Access Common Internet File System / Server Message Block (CIFS SMB) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
D
DNS Data Plane Docker Containers Data Engineering Data Science Document Object Model (DOM) DNS Flood: NXDOMAIN Flood DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity  Diameter Protocol Diameter Load Balancer Delivery Networking Diameter Interfaces Denial of Service (DoS) Data Layer Security Data Integrity
E
Edge Computing
F
File Transfers Protocol (FTP) Front-End vs Back-End Development
G
Google PageSpeed Game Server Load Balancing Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
H
HTML HTTP vs HTTPS High Availability HIPAA Compliance 101: What Is It How Does it Affect Your Business Honeypots
I
Ingress vs Egress Traffic Internet Protocol (IP) IPv4 vs IPv6 Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
J
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) JavaScript
K
Kubernetes
L
Latency Load Balancing as a Service Load Balancing Algorithms Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancing Load Balancing and How Does It Work Load Balancer
M
Machine Learning Microservices vs Monolithic Architecture: What's the Difference Malware Multi-Cloud Load Balancing Multi-Location Load Balancing
N
North-South vs East-West Traffic Network Routing and How Does It Work Neural Network Natural Language Processing (NLP) Network Throughput
O
OAuth OSI Model Open Source Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) OWASP Top 10
P
Post Office Protocol (POP) PHP Public Cloud PCI-DSS Compliance
R
Routing vs Bridging Reverse Proxy Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) RDP/RDS Load Balancing
S
Service Discovery Service Mesh Stateless vs Stateful Applications Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Serverless Functions Software-Defined Load Balancing (SDLB) SSH SQL vs NoSQL Databases Software Defined Networking (SDN) Security Information Event Management (SIEM) Spam SSL SQL Injection SSL/TLS Termination
T
TCP vs UDP Testing In Production Transport Control Protocol (TCP) Threat Intelligence Platform Threat Intelligence
U
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
V
Virtual Machine (VM)
W
Web Application Security Web Application Firewall (WAF) Web Acceleration
X
XML
Z
Zero-Day Threats