Glossary

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

An advanced persistent threat (APT) refers to an attack that continues, secretively, using innovative hacking methods to access a system and stay inside for a long period of time. Typical attackers are cyber criminals, like the Iranian group APT34, the Russian organization APT28, and others. Although they can come from all over the world, some of the most notable attackers come from Iran, other areas of the Middle East, and North Korea.

Docs: https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/advanced-persistent-threat

Subresource Integrity (SRI)

Subresource Integrity (SRI) is a security feature that enables browsers to verify that resources they fetch (for example, from a CDN) are delivered without unexpected manipulation. It works by allowing you to provide a cryptographic hash that a fetched resource must match.

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity

Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)

A Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) is a data structure that simplifies distributed data storage systems and multi-user applications.

In many systems, copies of some data need to be stored on multiple computers (known as replicas). Examples of such systems include:

Mobile apps that store data on the local device, and that need to sync that data to other devices belonging to the same user (such as calendars, notes, contacts, or reminders); Distributed databases, which maintain multiple replicas of the data (in the same datacenter or in different locations) so that the system continues working correctly if some of the replicas are offline; Collaboration software, such as Google Docs, Trello, Figma, or many others, in which several users can concurrently make changes to the same file or data; Large-scale data storage and processing systems, which replicate data in order to achieve global scalability.

Docs: https://crdt.tech/