Trust Glossary
Browse 15 trust terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
15 Trust Terms
- Attestation
- Attestation is a process that proves software, firmware, or hardware state to a verifier using signed measurements. Security teams use it to enforce trust,...
- Catfishing
- Pretending to be someone else online, often using a false identity to build trust, manipulate, or deceive. In internet culture the term is associated with...
- Certificate Authority
- A trusted entity that issues digital certificates, verifying that the holder of a certificate is who they claim to be. The trust anchors of HTTPS — when a CA...
- Certificate Pinning
- Certificate Pinning is a trust strategy that restricts which certificate or public key a client will accept for a service. Security teams use it to enforce...
- Faith in Code
- A belief, sometimes justified and sometimes naïve, that software and automation will behave reliably or cleanly enough to solve messy human problems. The...
- Full Transparency
- A commitment to sharing information openly and honestly rather than hiding important context. In workplace culture full transparency is often aspirational, but...
- Hallucination
- Hallucination in artificial intelligence refers to a model generating content that is factually incorrect, fabricated, or nonsensical while presenting it with...
- Hardware Root of Trust
- Hardware Root of Trust is hardware-based trust anchors that securely store secrets or measurements and bootstrap verification chains. Security teams use it to...
- High Assurance
- Describing systems, processes, or controls built and evaluated to a level intended to support strong confidence in their security properties under demanding...
- Identity Proofing
- The process of verifying that a claimed identity really belongs to the applicant before issuing credentials or granting account recovery. Identity proofing may...
- Root Certificate
- A self-signed top-level certificate trusted as the anchor for a certificate chain. It shows up in application security, identity, infrastructure, or incident...
- Rugpull
- A situation where creators, leaders, or operators suddenly withdraw support, value, or promised behavior, leaving others exposed. It is strongly associated...
- Social Proof
- Evidence that other people or organizations already trust and use a product, such as customer logos, testimonials, reviews, or case studies. Social proof...
- TOFU
- Short for Trust On First Use, a security model where a key or identity is accepted the first time it is seen and treated as trusted afterward unless it...
- Trust Fall
- A move that depends heavily on other people or systems doing their part correctly. In engineering slang, a trust fall is any design choice where one layer...
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