Perimeter Glossary
Browse 6 perimeter terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Perimeter Terms
- Demilitarized Zone
- A network segment placed between untrusted external networks and trusted internal systems to host public-facing services under tighter isolation. The idea is...
- DMZ
- Short for demilitarized zone, a network segment used to isolate public-facing systems from more trusted internal networks. A DMZ reduces blast radius when...
- Edge Security
- The protection of systems and traffic at the network or application edge, where requests first meet services such as CDNs, reverse proxies, gateways, and edge...
- Internet Exposure
- The condition of a system, service, asset, or interface being reachable from the public internet. Internet exposure is not automatically a flaw, but exposed...
- NAT Security
- The security implications and controls associated with network address translation, including how internal addresses are hidden, how sessions are tracked, and...
- Network Perimeter Security
- The controls placed at network boundaries to monitor, filter, or restrict traffic entering and leaving an environment, such as firewalls, gateways, DDoS...
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- Network Security (3 terms in common)
- Segmentation (2 terms in common)
- Nat (1 terms in common)
- Firewalls (1 terms in common)
- Networking (1 terms in common)
- Attack Surface (1 terms in common)
- Distributed Systems (1 terms in common)
- Cdn (1 terms in common)
- Exposure (1 terms in common)