Discovery Glossary
Browse 9 discovery terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
9 Discovery Terms
- Code Scout
- Someone who goes ahead into unfamiliar technical territory, mapping risks, dependencies, and feasible paths for the rest of the team. In engineering slang, the...
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Easter Egg Hunt in technology refers to the practice of searching for and discovering hidden features, messages, jokes, or secret content intentionally...
- Fuzzing
- An automated testing technique that bombards a program with random, malformed, or unexpected input to discover bugs and vulnerabilities. The computational...
- Host Scanning
- The inspection of hosts to identify open services, installed software, vulnerabilities, or configuration state. Host scanning can be performed by defenders for...
- mDNS
- Multicast DNS — a protocol that resolves hostnames to IP addresses on local networks without a DNS server. Devices announce themselves as name.local and...
- Mind Blown
- An expression of strong surprise, amazement, or sudden comprehension. In engineering slang, it appears both when something is impressively elegant and when the...
- Network Mapping
- The process of identifying devices, subnets, routes, services, and connectivity relationships across a network. Defenders use network mapping for visibility...
- Reconnaissance
- The process of gathering information about a target's people, infrastructure, technologies, or defenses in preparation for a later attack or assessment....
- Risk Identification
- The process of discovering and naming potential security risks before or while they materialize into incidents. Risk identification can come from threat...
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