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Sometimes I think I'm pretty hip to the jargon but every once in a while I learn a new one. IoC is an "Indicator of compromise."
by wyldfire 8y ago
Sometimes I think I'm pretty hip to the jargon but every once in a while I learn a new one. IoC is an "Indicator of compromise."
- smoyer 8y agoThe context was indeed all wrong for "Inversion of Control" but I wasn't going to ask the Urban Dictionary what it meant at work.
- tru3_power 8y agoAfaik I it’s a pretty common term. Altering/monitoring teams often times hit up product security teams for IoCs they can use in their alerting implementation.
- myself248 8y agoI wonder what percentage of HN readers are on alerting/monitoring terms! This place worse than most, tends to eschew in-jokes and memes as marks of belonging and membership, and rely instead on unexplained jargon.
- jstarfish 8y ago> This place worse than most, tends to eschew in-jokes and memes as marks of belonging and membership, and rely instead on unexplained jargon. The unexplained jargon isn't any worse here than anywhere else. Everything from motorcycling to woodworking to sewing has its own arcane terminology for simple concepts to ostracize the unlearned. Yes, you too can get icy stares from a table full of middle-aged women at the sewing club for failing to be born with the knowledge that "the thing that does edges" is actually called a "serger."
- meristem 8y agoOverlocker when not in the US.
- GordonS 8y agoIt is a common term - in the infosec world... outside of that, not so much.
- jstarfish 8y agoIt is common; everything in security is an ambiguous acronym. "C-and-C", for "command-and-control," is particularly vague and has multiple presentations-- C+C (Music Factory? An equation?), CnC (machining for materials fabrication), C2 (tutoring? Dicarbons?), C&C (a law firm?), CC (credit card). APT (advanced persistent threat or Aptitude package manager?) is also annoying. If you're curious, a whole bunch of security-related acronyms are reflected in the various product names and descriptions here: https://github.com/hslatman/awesome-threat-intelligence https://github.com/hslatman/awesome-threat-intelligence
- DCoder 8y agoC&C also used to stand for the old game series Command & Conquer.
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- draw_down 8y agoGood thing the author of TFA used the full phrase before putting the initialism near the end of the article. :)
- wglb 8y agoVery common in Incident Response and Network Security Monitoring.
- qu4z-2 8y agoI found it helped me that "indicators of compromise" is written out in full in the relevant paragraph, and then just abbreviated in the summary. It's rough if you're skimming though (and who has time to read everything on the web?)