Master Boot Record (MBR): The first sector of a hard drive that contains the bootloader program and the partition table. It is used to boot the operating system on a computer. Examples -A computer’s BIOS uses the MBR to boot the operating system, a bootable USB drive contains an MBR, and a disk repair utility can fix a corrupted MBR.
Categories: CC D5: Security Operations | CCSP D3: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security | CISM D3: Information Security Program | CISSP D3: Security Architecture and Engineering | Security+ D3: Security Architecture | SSCP D7: Systems and Application Security
« Back to Glossary Index