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Security Operations & Incident Response

Glossary

Converged Threat Surface
The combined attack surface of AI infrastructure, in which enterprise IT, operational technology, physical access, and the supply chain form a single continuous surface an adversary can move across, rather than four separate domains.
Detection Engineering
The discipline of building, testing, versioning, and tuning detections as code, where every detection carries a hypothesis, a mapped adversary technique, and a test, so the alert pipeline stays an instrument rather than decaying into an unmanaged, fatigue-inducing landfill.
Incident-Response Lifecycle
The ordered set of phases through which an incident is managed: prepare, detect, contain, eradicate, recover, and learn. The lifecycle is circular, with lessons from the learn phase feeding back into preparation for the next incident.
Recovery Point Objective
The maximum amount of data or state an organization can afford to lose in an incident, expressed as the acceptable age of the last good restore point. A tight objective demands continuous replication rather than periodic backups.
Recovery Time Objective
The maximum acceptable duration a critical service may remain down before the harm becomes unacceptable. It is a business decision that drives architecture, since a tight objective demands hot standby and automated failover.
Tabletop Exercise
A facilitated, discussion-based rehearsal of an incident in which the real responders walk through their decisions against a scenario driven by escalating injects, exposing gaps in plans, authorities, and coordination before an adversary does.
Threat Hunting
A proactive, hypothesis-driven search for adversary activity that existing detections did not anticipate. A hunt succeeds when it finds an intrusion, exposes a visibility gap, or yields a repeatable query that can be promoted into a standing detection.
Unified Command
A command structure, borrowed from emergency-management doctrine, in which a single incident commander runs the response over domain deputies for IT and operational technology, giving a converged incident one owner, one timeline, and one common operating picture.