Glossary

Cloud platform services, where the computing platform (operating system and associated services) is delivered as a service over the Internet by the provider.

Part of the processing of TCP IP traffic that consists of fragmenting, sending, and reassembling packets.

Additional, meaningless data adds to a packet to increase its size.

Series of characters that must be provided by the user for input to the cryptographic key generation process. Must be no less than eight logical characters and can contain spaces.

A device to which a computer has a network connection that is relatively symmetrical and where both devices can initiate or respond to a similar set of requests.

A data storage solution where the data remains intact until it is deleted.

Component of the Barracuda Network Access Client. Centrally managed host firewall that can handle up to four different rulesets at once, depending on the policy applicable to user, machine, date, and time

Refers to a group of standards, in the format PKCS #n, where n =1 to 15. For example: Certificates can be downloaded in PKCS #12 format, which includes the private key and certificate.

Logical grouping of AWS instances within a single Availability Zone.

Also called source-based routing, is used when the source IP address of the connection determines, in part or completely, which route is used.

A tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that helps you test and troubleshoot policies so you can see their effects in real-world scenarios.

A means of Media Access Control where a device may only transmit information when it is given permission to transmit by a controller device.

A network protocol that is used to establish VPN tunnels.

24/7 support, offered by Barracuda Networks

A VPC subnet whose instances cannot be reached from the Internet.

In this mode, a network device can receive and process all of the packets on its network. Can be used in packet sniffing. 

Process of preparing and equipping a network or device to allow it to provide services to its users.

A shared secret that was previously shared between two parties using a secure channel before it needs to be used.

A value provided by a designated authority as an encryption key.  Public key cryptography (asymmetric cryptography) uses pairs of keys: public keys that may be distributed widely, and private keys that are known only to the owner.

A subnet whose instances can be reached from the Internet.

Networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA or Triple A) management for users who connect and use a network service.

A proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft that provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.

AWS term, managed Relational Database Service

The time in which an action is performed.

A combination of characters or character classes and operators that describe text for matching purposes.

Software that allows access to internal applications and data from remote devices. Example: VPN client, CudaLaunch.

A pricing option for EC2 instances that discounts the on-demand usage charge for instances that meet the specified parameters. Customers pay for the entire term of the instance, regardless of how they use it.

IP addresses reserved for special purposes. For example, IP addresses reserved and assigned to Azure cloud services.

Support the secondary function of Domain Name System (DNS) - the resolution of IP addresses to host names.

The HTTP Proxy directs incoming requests from other servers to clients without providing the origin details.

Numbered authorization provided by a merchant, like Barracuda Networks, to permit the return of a product.

A return to a previous state after an installation or configuration failure.

A CA-signed or self-signed public key certificate that identifies the root certificate authority (CA).

AWS service for DNS-based load balancing that connects user requests to EC2 instances, ELBs, S3 buckets, and Internet applications and provides health checks for monitoring or to route traffic to healthy endpoints.

In AWS, a set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that is associated with the route table. You can associate multiple subnets with a single route table, but a subnet can be associated with only one route table at a time.

Bridging mode where the router acts as a bridge.

Congestion control algorithm designed for fast download times such as user response times, or flow-completion times. 

One of the four storage classes in AWS. 99.9& SLA reduced redundancy storage, lower fault tolerance, stored in 1 region.

A hardware token for performing two-factor authentication for a user to a network resource.

A collection of one or more access or application rules.