In an increasingly digital world, understanding the language of cyber risk is essential. At Canopius, we recognise that cybersecurity can often feel complex and technical — especially when navigating the evolving threats and technologies that shape today’s digital landscape.
This Cyber glossary is designed to provide clear, accessible definitions of key cybersecurity terms. Whether you’re a policyholder, broker, or simply looking to better understand the risks and protections associated with Cyber insurance, this resource will help you make informed decisions with confidence.
Automated traffic, including web scrapers and bots, now makes up roughly 51% of web traffic. Web scraping is the automated process of pulling information from websites. Instead of copying and pasting the details from a web page manually, a software...
Network security is the practice of protecting networks and the systems, devices and data connected to them against unauthorised access, misuse, or attack. It is the tools, policies, and processes that organisations use to secure their digital infrastructure. At its...
TCP/IP is a family of networking protocols that allows devices to communicate with each other across local and global networks. It defines how data is prepared, addressed, transmitted, routed, and received across interconnected systems. TCP TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) supports...
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