Cybersecurity

🔍 What Is It? CIPHER is a six-part checklist security experts use to make sure information is protected from every possible angle. Security experts need to protect information — passwords, health records, private messages. But information can be threatened in many different ways at once. CIPHER gives them a checklist of six things to verify, so they never accidentally leave a door open. The six parts are: Confidentiality (only the right people can see the data), Integrity (no one can secretly alter it), Privacy (keep personal details to a minimum), Hardware security (the actual physical machines are locked), Encryption (data is scrambled into a code so only authorized people can unscramble it), and Risk management (think ahead about what attacks could happen and have a plan ready). Each one plugs a different hole. ...

🔍 What Is It? TTPs breaks down how anyone carries out a plan into three layers — the big goal, the method they pick, and the exact steps they follow. TTP stands for Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. It is a way of describing exactly how someone — usually a hacker, but also a soldier or a criminal — carries out an attack. Instead of just saying a hacker broke in, TTPs let experts write down every layer of the plan: what the attacker was ultimately trying to achieve, which method they chose to get there, and the precise step-by-step moves they made. ...