🔒AP Cybersecurity
Key Terms

241 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Cybersecurity exam

🔒AP Cybersecurity
Key Terms by Unit

Unit 1 – Introduction to Security

1.1 Understanding Social Engineering

1.2 Suspicious Website Logins

1.3 Best Practices for Public Networks

1.4 AI-Based Cybersecurity Attacks

1.5 Leveraging AI in Cyber Defense

Unit 2 – Securing Spaces

2.1 Cyber Foundations

2.2 Physical Vulnerabilities and Attacks

2.3 Protecting Physical Spaces

2.4 Detecting Physical Attacks

Unit 3 – Securing Networks

3.1 Network Vulnerabilities and Attacks

3.2 Protecting Networks: Managerial Controls and Wireless Security

3.3 Protecting Networks: Segmentation

3.4 Protecting Networks: Firewalls

3.5 Detecting Network Attacks

Unit 4 – Securing Devices

4.1 Device Vulnerabilities and Attacks

4.2 Authentication

4.3 Protecting Devices

4.4 Detecting Attacks on Devices

Unit 5 – Securing Applications and Data

5.1 Application and Data Vulnerabilities and Attacks

5.2 Protecting Applications and Data: Managerial Controls and Access Controls

5.3 Protecting Stored Data with Cryptography

5.4 Asymmetric Cryptography

5.5 Protecting Applications

5.6 Detecting Attacks on Data and Applications

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