ADC Glossary
The Imperva Application Defense Center has developed a comprehensive glossary of data security and compliance terms. Every glossary definition includes a detailed description of the term with examples and use cases. The purpose of the glossary is to educate readers and to clarify the terminology used by the ADC.
To access a glossary definition, select the desired glossary term from the alphabetical list in the right column.
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- Administrative Interface Access
- Access of Internal Components
- Anomaly Detection
- Brute Force
- Buffer Overflow
- Cookie Poisoning
- Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Cross-Site Scripting
- Denial of Service (DoS)
- Directory Traversal
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
- File/Parameter Enumeration
- Forceful Browsing
- Google Hacking
- HTTP Verb Tampering
- Known Attacks
- LAND Attacks
- Malicious Encodings
- Parameter Tampering
- Pharming
- Server Takeover
- Session Hijacking
- Signature Detection
- Site Scanning/Probing
- Source Code Disclosure
- SQL Injection
- Stealth Commanding
- Unknown Attacks