The FREE Cybersecurity Glossary by Thor Pedersen!

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME): S/MIME is a protocol for sending digitally signed and encrypted messages. It ensures the confidentiality of email content, authenticates the sender, confirms message integrity, and prevents message tampering in transit, which is essential for secure communication.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML): An open-standard data format that enables identity and service providers to exchange authentication and authorization data. Using XML-based language, SAML creates a seamless environment where users can authenticate once and gain access to multiple applications and services, thereby enhancing user experience, improving security, and reducing the administrative overhead associated with managing multiple passwords and access controls.

Simian army: A collection of open-source tools developed by Netflix to test the resilience and reliability of cloud-based systems. The Simian Army includes tools for simulating failures and other challenges, such as network outages or high levels of traffic. For example, a company might use the Simian Army to test its cloud-based e-commerce platform for peak holiday shopping seasons.

Spartan Scytale Cipher: An ancient encryption tool used by the Spartans where a strip of parchment or leather is wound around a rod of a specific diameter to write a message. When unwound, the letters do not align, and the message appears garbled. The recipient, who has a rod of the same diameter, can read the message by winding the strip around the rod. It's an early example of a transposition cipher.

SPOOL (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Online): A computing process where data is temporarily stored to be processed or output sequentially. Commonly associated with print spooling, it allows a computer to receive multiple print jobs at once, which are then queued and sent to the printer or another output device in the order they were received.

The SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner) is a widely recognized as a valuable certification for IT administrators and security professionals, the SSCP from ISC2 focuses on the practical aspects of security management, monitoring, and administration, validating operational skills in implementing and managing security measures. It is a mid-level certification on par with CompTIA's Security+. In the ISC2 world it is in-between the CC and the CISSP