Glossary

Security terms, in plain English.

Short, clear definitions of the security and compliance terms startups run into.

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API Gateway

An API gateway is infrastructure that happens to enforce security, not a security product. Treating it as one is how… 11 Sep 2026 6 min read

SASE

SASE is an architecture born from a problem most startups never had: traffic hauled back to a head office to… 11 Sep 2026 6 min read

EASM

EASM answers a question no internal tool can: what does your company look like from the outside, to someone with… 11 Sep 2026 6 min read

XDR

XDR is the argument that most attacks are invisible to any single tool. The signals exist. They just sit in… 11 Sep 2026 6 min read

NIST CSF

NIST CSF is the framework nobody audits you against and everybody borrows from. Version 2.0 added a governance function and… 11 Sep 2026 6 min read

Disk Encryption

Disk encryption protects a laptop that has been lost or stolen. It does almost nothing for a laptop that is… 10 Sep 2026 6 min read

Device Control

Device control decides what can plug into a company machine and what happens when it does. Most teams treat it… 10 Sep 2026 6 min read

EPP

EPP is the prevention layer on the endpoint. It stops what it recognises before anything runs, which is most attacks… 10 Sep 2026 6 min read