Fortra’s Halcyon

A Fortra product line for enterprise monitoring that allows organizations to monitor and manage the different types of computer architecture they use. Fortra’s Halcyon is part of Fortra’s Core Solutions Business Unit.

Fortra’s Infrastructure Protection Suite

A Fortra suite with solutions designed to build a resilient security posture by defending every part of the organization. Products from ​Fortra’s Digital Defense, Beyond Security, Core Security, Cobalt Strike, and Powertech make up the Infrastructure Protection Suite.

Fortra’s Intermapper

A Fortra product line for network monitoring, including enterprise network monitoring, live mapping, and alerting that helps network administrators maintain healthy IT environments.

Fortra’s PhishLabs

A Fortra product line that delivers digital risk protection through curated threat intelligence and mitigation. Using threat-specific technology and operations, PhishLabs protects digital assets from external brand, account takeover, social media, data leakage, and advanced email threats. Fortra’s PhishLabs is part of the Email Security & Anti-Phishing Suite.

Fortra’s Powertech

A Fortra product line that protects data on IBM i. (Note that Powertech Antivirus runs on AIX, Linux, IBM Z, and LinuxONE in addition to IBM i) Fortra’s Powertech is part of the Vulnerability Management Suite.

Fortra’s Robot

A Fortra product line that provides automation solutions for all critical areas of IBM i systems management. Fortra’s Robot is part of the IBM i Suite.

Fortra’s Sequel

A Fortra product line that helps IT deliver data to business users and executives fast and in whatever format desired—mobile dashboard, Excel file, PDF report, etc. Sequel installs on IBM i and can connect to other remote data (Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and others). Fortra’s Sequel is part of the IBM i Suite.

Fortra’s Terranova Security

A Fortra product line that offers global phishing simulation and security awareness training in more than 40 languages. The platform and content incorporate gamification techniques to increase engagement and knowledge retention.

Fortra’s Titus

A Fortra product line that provides data classification, identification, and security automation solutions for better regulatory compliance and control over data. Fortra’s Titus is part of the Data Protection Suite.

Fortra’s Tripwire

A Fortra product line with solutions that work on-premises and in the cloud to find, monitor, and minimize a wide range of threats without disrupting daily operations or productivity. Fortra’s Tripwire is part of the Managed File Integrity service.

Fortra’s Vityl

A Fortra product line for capacity management. It ensures IT meets business needs by monitoring key systems and ensuring capacity needs are addressed. Formerly TeamQuest.

Fortra’s Vityl Capacity Management (VCM)

A tool from Fortra’s Vityl product line that assists organizations with analyzing their historical data in order to create the optimal capacity plan

Fraud Intelligence

Intelligence gathered to discover and prevent online fraud.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

A law that affects all European residents and companies that store data or do business in the European Union (EU). Its goal is to ensure personal data is used, processed, and stored in a specific way.

Graylisting (or Greylisting)

The practice by email service providers where a mail transfer agent (MTA) temporarily rejects any email from a sender it does not recognize or unknown IP, and sets up a delay in delivery.

Graymail (or Greymail)

This term is used for spam-like emails that fall into the grey area of legitimacy and being unwanted, that users typically don't open or click through – such as marketing alerts and newsletters.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

A 1996 Federal law that restricts access to individuals' private medical information. Addressing HIPAA and HITECH Compliance Challenges

human risk management (HRM)

Technology that helps organizations understand and quantify the security risk posed by employee behavior to reduce the likelihood of successful cyberattacks and data breaches.

Hybrid Architecture

A type of cloud environment that combines on-premise appliances, as well as private and public cloud storage that comes together in one single IT infrastructure. 

IBM i

IBM operating system (also known as iSeries, AS/400). For more details on IBM i terms visit the IBM online glossary.

identity and access management (IAM)

The policies, programs, and technologies that reduce identity-related access risks within a business by managing digital identities and user access to data, systems, and resources. 

Identity-Based Attack

A category of tactics and techniques used by threat actors that use deceptive practices to exploit the identity of trusted colleagues and brands, including phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover-based attacks.

incident response plan (IRP)

An Incident Response Plan is a written document, formally approved by the senior leadership team, that helps your organization before, during, and after a confirmed or suspected security incident.

indicators of compromise (IOC)

Pieces of forensic data, such as data found in system log entries or files, that identify potentially malicious activity on a system or network.

information rights management (IRM)

Information rights management is a subset of digital rights management technologies that protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. It is sometimes referred to as E-DRM or enterprise digital rights.

infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

A form of cloud computing that provides virtual computing resources such as storage, networking, and other capabilities over the internet.

infrastructure protection (IP)

Infrastructure protection pertains to the security of critical business application infrastructure and protecting technology, systems, and business assets. Infrastructure protection (IP) is also used internally in Fortra to define the IT Infrastructure Protection business unit encompassing Fortra's Core Security, Cobalt Strike, Digital Defense, Beyond Security, and Outflank product lines.

Inline Deployment

This type of deployment in email architecture sits along (or in line with) the SMTP chain, interacting with emails as they come in and evaluating them before they reach the inbox.

Insider Threat

An advanced attack that is usually inadvertently caused by employees when sharing or clicking malicious emails, links, attachments, etc., including spear phishing, social engineering, and account takeover-based attacks.

Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES)

A multi-tiered architecture for cloud-based email security that supplements the native capabilities of a cloud email provider through the use of APIs and machine learning models and processing for attack detection.

internal penetration testing (IPT)

An internal network pen test is performed to help gauge what an attacker could achieve with initial access to a network. An internal network pen test can mirror insider threats, such as employees intentionally or unintentionally performing malicious actions.

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

The U.S. regulation that requires companies that manufacture, sell, or distribute defense articles or services to comply with the regulations as defined in the United States Munitions List (USML). The goal is to restrict and control the export of military technologies.

internet of things (IoT)

The network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment.

intrusion detection and prevention

Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention. Intrusion detection and prevention are two broad terms describing application security practices used to mitigate attacks and block new threats. The first is a reactive measure that identifies and mitigates ongoing attacks using an intrusion detection system.

intrusion detection system (IDS)

An IDS, also known as an intrusion detection system, is a software or physical device that monitors activity to detect any signs of unauthorized access. When it detects a potential intrusion, it alerts a central security system that keeps track of security events and information.

intrusion prevention system (IPS)

Intrusion prevention systems are network security solutions that examine a network for illegitimate access. If it discovers a possible intrusion, it prevents the intruder from moving further into the network or removes them completely. Intrusion prevention systems can come in the form of physical devices or software applications. They are also referred to as IPS.