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Unified Management and Automationhttps://www.nginx.com/products/unified-management-and-automation
WAF Solutionshttps://www.nginx.com/products/waf
Web Application Scannerhttps://www.nginx.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/web-app-scanning
Enterprise Networking Hardwarehttps://www.nginx.com/products/enterprise-networking-hardware-systems
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Access Controlhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/access-control
Access Control List ACLhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/access-control-list-acl
Account Takeover Fraudhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/account-takeover-fraud
Active Directoryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/active-directory
Active/Active Configurationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/active-active-configuration
Activexhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/activex
Adaptive Applicationshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/adaptive-applications
Address Resolution Protocol ARPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/address-resolution-protocol-arp
Advanced Compressionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/advanced-compression
Advanced Encryption Standard AEShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/advanced-encryption-standard-aes
Adversarial AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/adversarial-ai
Agentic Artificial Intelligence / Agentic AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/agentic-artificial-intelligence-agentic-ai
AI and ML Inferencehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-and-ml-inference
AI data centerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-data-center
AI Data Poisoninghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-data-poisoning
AI Data Processinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-data-processing
AI data securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-data-security
AI Foundryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-foundry
AI penetration testing https://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-penetration-testing
AI red teaminghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-red-teaming
AI Threat Detectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-threat-detection
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/asynchronous-javascript-and-xml-ajax
Algorithmhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/algorithm
Anti Phishinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/anti-phishing
Apachehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/apache
APIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api
API Connectivityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-connectivity
API Developer Experiencehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-developer-experience
API Discoveryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-api-discovery
API Firsthttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-first
API Gatewayhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-gateway
API Managementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-management
API securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-security
API sprawlhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-sprawl
API testinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/api-testing
App serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/app-server
Application accelerationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-acceleration
Application acceleratorhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-accelerator
Application Deliveryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-delivery
Application delivery controllerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-delivery-controller
Application firewallhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-firewall
Application intelligencehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-intelligence
Application layer firewallhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-layer-firewall
Application layer gatewayhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-layer-gateway
Application layer securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-layer-security
Application securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-security
Application server vs web serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-server-vs-web-server
Application serviceshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-services
Application traffic managerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/application-traffic-management
Artificial Intelligence Dependency / AI Dependencyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-dependency
Artificial Intelligence Plugin / AI Pluginhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ai-plugin
Asymmetric deploymenthttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/asymmetric-deployment
Attack Accelerationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/attack-acceleration
AWS Multicloud Strategieshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/aws-multicloud-strategies
Bandwidthhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bandwidth
BINDhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bind
Black Boxhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/black-box
Blue Teaminghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/blue-teaming
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/border-gateway-protocol-bgp
Bot management, mitigation, and protectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bot-management
Bot mitigationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bot-mitigation
Bot securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bot-security
Botshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/bots
Brute force attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/brute-force-attack
Buffer overflowhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/buffer-overflow
Business Email Compromise (BEC) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/business-email-compromise
Cachinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/caching
Certificate Authorityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/certificate-authority
Certificate Signing Request CSRhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/certificate-signingrequest-csr
Challenge Response Authenticationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/challenge-response-authentication
CIFS SMBhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cifs-smb
Client Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/client-certificate
Clientless Remote Accesshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/clientless-remote-access
Cloud Infrastructurehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cloud-infrastructure
Cloud Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cloud-load-balancing
Cloud Nativehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cloud-native
Cloud Native App Deliveryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cloud-native-app-delivery
Cloud Operating Systemhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cloud-operating-system
Clusteringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/clustering
Command Injectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/command-injection
Connection Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/connection-flood
Containerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/container
Content Delivery Network CDNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/content-delivery-network-cdn
Content Filteringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/content-filtering
Content Serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/content-server
Control Planehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/control-plane
Cookiehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cookie
Cookie Poisoninghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cookie-poisoning
Credentialhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/credential
Credential Stuffing Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/credential-stuffing-attack
Cross Site Request Forgery CSRFhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf
Cross Site Scriptinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cross-site-scripting
Cyberattackshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cyberattacks
Cybersecurityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/cybersecurity
Data Breachhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-breach
Data Exfiltrationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-exfiltration
Data Integrityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-integrity
Data Layer Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-layer-security
Data orchestrationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-orchestration
Data Planehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-plane
Data Processing Unithttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/data-processing-unit
Datagram Transport Layer Security DTLShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/datagram-transport-layer-security-dtls
DDoS Mitigationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ddos-mitigation
Defense In Depthhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/defense-in-depth
Delivery Networkinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/delivery-networking
Demilitarized Zone Dmzhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/demilitarized-zone-dmz
Denial Of Servicehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/denial-of-service
Denial of Service Attack / DoS Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/denial-of-service-attack-dos-attack
Denial Of Service Toolhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/denial-of-service-tool
Devopshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/devops
Diameter Edge Agent Deahttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/diameter-edge-agent-dea
Diameter Interfaceshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/diameter-interfaces
Diameter Load Balancerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/diameter-load-balancer
Diameter Protocolhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/diameter-protocol
Diameter Routing Agent DRAhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/diameter-routing-agent-dra
Dictionary Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dictionary-attack
Digital Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/digital-certificate
Digital Infrastructurehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/digital-infrastructure
Direct Server Return DSRhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/direct-server-return-dsr
Directory Traversalhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/directory-traversal
Disaster Recovery Business Continuityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/disaster-recovery-business-continuity
Distributed Cloudhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/distributed-cloud
Distributed Cloud Computinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/distributed-cloud-computing
Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attack
DNShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns
DNS Flood Nxdomain Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns-flood-nxdomain-flood
DNS Flood Query Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns-flood-query-flood
DNS Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns-load-balancing
DNS Round Robinhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns-round-robin
DNS Zone Transferhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dns-zone-transfer
Domain Name System Security Extensions DNSSEChttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/domain-name-system-security-extensions-dnssec
Dynamic Application Security Testing DASThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/dynamic-application-security-testing-dast
Edge AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-edge-ai
Edge Computinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/edge-computing
Encryptionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/encryption
Endpoint Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/endpoint-security
Escape Processinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/escape-processing
Ethical Artificial Intelligence / Ethical AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ethical-artificial-intelligence-ethical-ai
Excessive Agencyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/excessive-agency
Extended Validation SSL Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/extended-validation-ssl-certificate
Extensible Markup Language XMLhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/extensible-markup-language-xml
Extranet Access Controlhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/extranet-access-control
F5 Technologieshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/f5-technologies
Failoverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/failover
Fake Resourceshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/fake-resources
False Positivehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/false-positive
Falsificationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/falsification
Federationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/federation
File Server Consolidationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/file-server-consolidation
File Transfer Protocol FTPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/file-transfer-protocol-ftp
Fine-Tuned Modelhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/fine-tuned-model
Firewall Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/firewall-security
Forced Browsinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/forced-browsing
Forward Proxyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/forward-proxy
Foundational AI Modelshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/foundational-ai-models
Fraud Detectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/fraud-detection
Fully Qualified Domain Name FQDNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/fully-qualified-domain-name-fqdn
Generative AI Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/generative-ai-security
Generative Artificial Intelligence / GenAIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/generative-artificial-intelligence-genai
Geolocationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/geolocation
Get Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/get-flood
GET Methodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/get-method
Global Namespacehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/global-namespace
Global Server Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/global-server-load-balancing
Graphics Processing Unithttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/graphics-processing-unit
Graphqlhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/graphql
gRPChttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/grpc
Hash DoS Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hash-dos-attack
Health Checkhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/health-check
Hierarchical clusteringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hierarchical-clustering
High Availabilityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/high-availability
Hostnamehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hostname
Httphttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/http
HTTP 1.0https://www.nginx.com/glossary/http-1-0
HTTP 1.1https://www.nginx.com/glossary/http-1-1
HTTP Compressionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/http-compression
HTTP Header Injectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/http-header-injection
HTTP2https://www.nginx.com/glossary/http-2
HTTPShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/https
Hybrid Cloudhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hybrid-cloud
Hybrid Cloud Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hybrid-cloud-architecture
Hybrid Cloud Networkinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-hybrid-cloud-networking
Hybrid Cloud Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hybrid-cloud-security
Hybrid Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hybrid-load-balancing
Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hypertext-transfer-protocol-http
Hypervisorhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/hypervisor
ICMP Flood Ping Flood Smurf Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/icmp-flood-ping-flood-smurf-attack
Illegal Money Remittancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/illegal-money-remittance
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/ip-multimedia-subsystem-ims
Independent Computing Architecture ICAhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/independent-computing-architecture-ica
Indirect Prompt Injection Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/indirect-prompt-injection-attack
Inference Layerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/inference-layer
Infrastructure as a Service IaaShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas
Infrastructure as Code IAChttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/infrastructure-as-code-iac
Insecure Output Handlinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/insecure-output-handling
Insecure Plugin Designhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/insecure-plugin-design
Intelligent compressionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/intelligent-compression
Intermediate Certificateshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/intermediate-certificate
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/internet-control-message-protocol-icmp
Internet Of Things IoThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/internet-of-things-iot
Internet Traffic Managementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/internet-traffic-management
Intrusion Detection System (IDS)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/intrusion-detection-system-ids
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/intrusion-prevention-system-ips
IP QoShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ip-qos
IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/internet-protocol-security-ipsec
IPsec VPNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ipsec-vpn
IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6
IPv6 gatewayhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ipv6-gateway
IPv6 Proxyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ipv6-proxy
IWF (Interworking Function)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/interworking-function-iwf
Jailbreak Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/jailbreak-attack
Javahttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/java
KeepAlivehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/keepalive
Keyloggerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/keylogger
Kuberneteshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/kubernetes
Kubernetes Ingress Controllerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/kubernetes-ingress-controller
L4 Switchhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/l4-switch
L7 Switchhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/l7-switch
Large Language Model / LLMhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/large-language-model-llm
Large language model securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/llm-security
Latencyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/latency
Layer 4 Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/layer-4-load-balancing
Layer 7 Load Balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/layer-7-load-balancing
Least Connectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/least-connection
Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/link-aggregation-control-protocol-lacp
Live Migrationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/live-migration
LLM (Large Language Models)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-llm
Load Balancerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/load-balancer
Machine Learning Operationshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/machine-learning-operations
Malicious Codehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/malicious-code
Malwarehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/malware
Man-in-the-Browser (MITB) Attack https://www.nginx.com/glossary/man-in-the-browser-attack-mitb
Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/man-in-the-middle-attack-mitm
Management Information Base MIBhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/management-information-base-mib
Management Planehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/management-plane
Media Serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/media-server
Microsegmentationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/microsegmentation
Microservices Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/microservices-architecture
Mobile Device Management MDMhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/mobile-device-management-mdm
Model (Artificial Intelligence)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/model-artificial-intelligence
Model Agnostichttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/model-agnostic
Model Context Protocolhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/model-context-protocol
Monolithic Applicationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/monolithic-application
MQTThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/mqtt
Multi Cloudhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-cloud
Multi Cloud Network Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-cloud-network-architecture
Multi Cloud Securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-cloud-security
Multi Cloud Strategieshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-cloud-strategies
Multi Factor Authenticationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-factor-authentication
Multi-Hominghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-homing
Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multi-tenant-cloud-architecture
Multicloud Deploymenthttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/multicloud-deployment
Name Resolutionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/name-resolution
Network Address Port Translation NAPThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-address-port-translation-napt
Network Address Translationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-address-translation
Network Attached Storage NAShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-attached-storage-nas
Network Availabilityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-availability
Network File System NFShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-file-system-nfs
Network Management Station NMShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-management-station-nms
Network Time Protocol NTPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-time-protocol-ntp
Network Traffic Managementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-traffic-management
Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation NVGREhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/network-virtualization-using-generic-routing-encapsulation-nvgre
Next Generation Firewallhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/next-generation-firewall
NGINXhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/nginx
OAuthhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/oauth
Object Identifier OIDhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/object-identifier-oid
Observabilityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/observability
One-arm Configurationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/one-arm-configuration
One-Time Password (OTP)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/one-time-password
Open Bankinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/open-banking
Open Source Software (OSS)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/open-source-software-oss
Open SSLhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/openssl
OpenFlowhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/openflow
OpenTelemetryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/opentelemetry
Orchestratorhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/orchestrator
Overlay Networkhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/overlay-network
Overreliancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/overreliance
OWASPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/owasp
OWASP API Security Top 10https://www.nginx.com/glossary/owasp-api-security-top-10
OWASP Automated Threatshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/owasp-automated-threats
Packet Filteringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/packet-filtering
Passive Mode FTPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/passive-mode-ftp
Passive Prompt Injection Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/passive-prompt-injection-attack
Password Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/password-attack
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/payment-card-industry-data-security-standard-pci
PC over IP (PCoIP)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/pc-over-ip-pcoip
Persistencehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/persistence
Personally Identifiable Information / PIIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/personally-identifiable-information-pii
Physical Layerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/physical-layer
Pipeline Processinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/pipeline-processing
Platform Engineeringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/platform-engineering
Platform opshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-platform-ops
Policy Enforcementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/policy-enforcement
Policy-Based Access Control / PBAChttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/policy-based-access-control-pbac
Port Address Translation PAThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/port-address-translation-pat
POST Methodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/post-method
Progressive Downloadhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/progressive-download
Prompt Injection Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/prompt-injection-attack
Provider Agnostichttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/prompt-injection
Provider Agnostichttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/provider-agnostic
Proxyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/proxy
Public Cloudhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/public-cloud
Public Keyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/public-key
Public Key Infrastructure PKIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/public-key-infrastructure-pki
Purple Teaminghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/purple-teaming
PUSH And ACK Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/push-and-ack-flood
Quality Of Service QoShttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/quality-of-service-qos
Quarantine Networkhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/quarantine-network
Quic Http3https://www.nginx.com/glossary/quic-http3
Rate shapinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/rate-shaping
Real Time APIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-a-real-time-api
Recovery Point Objective RPOhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/recovery-point-objective-rpo
Recovery Time Objective RTOhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/recovery-time-objective-rto
Red Teaminghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/red-teaming
Redundancyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/redundancy
Remote Accesshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/remote-access
Remote Access VPNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/remote-access-vpn
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/remote-authentication-dial-in-user-service-radius
Replicationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/replication
Representational State Transfer (REST)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/representational-state-transfer-rest
REST APIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/rest-api
Retraining Modelshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/retraining-models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/retrieval-augmented-generation
Retrieval-Augmented Generation / RAGhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag
Reverse proxyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/reverse-proxy
Reverse Proxy Serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/reverse-proxy-server
RFC 3588https://www.nginx.com/glossary/rfc-3588
RFC 6733https://www.nginx.com/glossary/rfc-6733
Root Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/root-certificate
Root Certification Authorityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/root-certification-authority
Round Robinhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/round-robin
Round robin load balancinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/round-robin-load-balancing
Routerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/router
Routinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/routing
Sanitized Datasethttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sanitized-dataset
Scalable AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/scalable-ai
Scrapinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/scraping
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/stream-control-transmission-protocol-sctp
Secrethttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secret
Secret Keyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secret-key
Secure Application Deliveryhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secure-application-delivery
Secure Codinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secure-coding
Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-1https://www.nginx.com/glossary/secure-hash-algorithm-sha-1
Secure Network Address Translation SNAThttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secure-network-address-translation-snat
Secure Remote Accesshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/secure-remote-access
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/security-assertion-markup-language-saml
Security Breacheshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/security-breaches
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/security-information-and-event-management-siem
Self Signed Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/self-signed-certificate
Sensitive Information Disclosurehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sensitive-information-disclosure
Server Certificatehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/server-certificate
Service Chaininghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/service-chaining
Service Level Agreement SLAhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/service-level-agreement-sla
Service Meshhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/service-mesh
Service Oriented Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/service-oriented-architecture
Service Oriented Architecture SOAhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/service-oriented-architecture-soa
Session Initiation Protocol Siphttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/session-initiation-protocol-sip
Session Managementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/session-management
Session persistencehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/session-persistence
Shadow Artificial Intelligence / Shadow AIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/shadow-artificial-intelligence-shadow-ai
Sidecarhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sidecar
Signaturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/signature
Single Sign-On (SSO) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/single-sign-on
SIP proxyhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sip-proxy
SIP proxy serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sip-proxy-server
SIP VoIP gatewayhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sip-voip-gateway
Site Reliability Engineering SREhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/site-reliability-engineering
Site To Site VPNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/site-to-site-vpn
Slowlorishttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/slowloris
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/simple-network-management-protocol-snmp
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/simple-object-access-protocol-soap
Software as a Service (SaaS)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/software-as-a-service-saas
Software bill of materials (SBOM) https://www.nginx.com/glossary/software-bill-of-materials-sbom
Software Defined Networking (SDN)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/software-defined-networking-sdn
Spam Emailhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/email-spam
SPDYhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/spdy
Spoofinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/spoofing
SQL injectionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/sql-injection
SSL accelerationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-acceleration
SSL bridginghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-bridging
SSL decryptionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-decryption
SSL flood and SSL renegotiation attacks https://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-flood-and-ssl-renegotiation-attacks
SSL load balancerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-load-balancer
SSL Offloadinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-offloading
SSL Terminationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-termination
SSL VPNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-vpn
SSL/TLS Encryptionhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssl-tls-encryption
SSRFhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/ssrf
Supply Chain Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/supply-chain-attack
Switchhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/switch
SYNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/syn
SYN Flood Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/syn-flood-attack
SYSLOGhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/syslog
TCP/IPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/tcp-ip
Teardrop Attackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/teardrop-attack
Telecommunications Industry Organizationshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/telecommunications-industry-organizations
Threat Stackhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/threat-stack
Throughput optimizationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/throughput-optimization
Time To Live TTLhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/time-to-live-ttl
Traffic Managementhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/traffic-management
Traffic Shapinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/traffic-shaping
Trained Data Poisoninghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/trained-data-poisoning
Transparency (Relative to AI/ML)https://www.nginx.com/glossary/transparency-relative-to-ai-ml
Transport Layerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/transport-layer
UDP Floodhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/udp-flood
Understanding Agentic AI and Its Role in Modern AI Appshttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/agentic-ai
Unified Threat Management UTMhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/unified-threat-management-utm
Uniform Resource Identifier URIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/uniform-resource-identifier-uri
Universal Access Controllerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/universal-access-controller
Universal Access Managerhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/universal-access-manager
URL Filteringhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/url-filtering
User Datagram Protocol UDPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/user-datagram-protocol-udp
User-Agenthttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/user-agent
Vector Databasehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/vector-database
Virtual Appliancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-appliance
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDIhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi
Virtual Extensible Local Area Network VXLANhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-extensible-local-area-network-vxlan
Virtual Hostinghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-hosting
Virtual LAN VLANhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-lan-vlan
Virtual Networkhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-network
Virtual Private Network VPNhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/virtual-private-network-vpn
VLAN IDhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/vlan-id
VLAN Taghttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/vlan-tag
Waf Web Application Firewallhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/waf-web-application-firewall
WAN Accelerationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/wan-acceleration
WAN Acceleratorhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/wan-accelerator
Web 2.0https://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-2-0
Web Accelerationhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-acceleration
Web App And Api Protection WAAPhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-app-and-api-protection-waap
Web Application Firewall WAFhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-application-firewall-waf
Web application performancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-application-performance
Web application securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-application-security
Web performancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-performance
Web serverhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-server
Web server performancehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/web-server-performance
WebSockethttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/websocket
What is explainable AI (XAI)?https://www.nginx.com/glossary/explainable-ai
What Is Samlhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/what-is-saml
What is the difference between a reverse proxy and a load balancer?https://www.nginx.com/glossary/reverse-proxy-vs-load-balancer
White Boxhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/white-box
Wireless network securityhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/wireless-network-security
X.509https://www.nginx.com/glossary/x-509
XML firewallhttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/xml-firewall
Zero Trusthttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/zero-trust
Zero Trust Architecturehttps://www.nginx.com/glossary/zero-trust-architecture
Learn howhttps://www.nginx.com/learn/certification
Free Trialshttps://www.f5.com/trials
Productshttps://www.f5.com/products
Solutionshttps://www.f5.com/solutions
Product Documentationhttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/tech-documents
White Papershttps://www.f5.com/resources/white-papers
Glossaryhttps://www.f5.com/glossary
Customer Storieshttps://www.f5.com/case-studies
Webinarshttps://www.f5.com/company/events/webinars
Training & Certificationhttps://education.f5.com
Manage Subscriptionshttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/subscriptions
Support Portalhttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/
Professional Serviceshttps://www.f5.com/services#professional-services
Create a Service Requesthttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/createcase
Software Downloadshttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/downloads
Find a Reseller Partnerhttps://www.f5.com/partners/find-a-partner
Technology Allianceshttps://www.f5.com/partners/technology-alliances
Become an F5 Partnerhttps://www.f5.com/partners
Login to Partner Centralhttps://partnercentral.f5.com/
Contact Informationhttps://www.f5.com/company/contact
F5 Trust Centerhttps://www.f5.com/company/trust-center
Careershttps://www.f5.com/company/careers
Diversity & Inclusionhttps://www.f5.com/company/diversity-inclusion
Investor Relationshttps://investors.f5.com/
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Trademarkshttps://www.nginx.com/company/policies/trademarks
Policieshttps://www.nginx.com/company/policies
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