--- title: "Cybersecurity Fundamentals Archives - Cybr" description: "Read practical guides, tutorials, and security research about Cybersecurity Fundamentals from the Cybr blog." url: https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/ --- From the blog # Cybersecurity Fundamentals Read practical guides, tutorials, and security research about Cybersecurity Fundamentals from the Cybr blog. Browse the archive ## Latest articles 10 on this page - September 29, 2023 ### Understanding malware classification Understanding this isn’t required for the CompTIA Security+ exam, meaning that we’re going beyond the scope of this exam for a few minutes, but I… Read article [Understanding malware classification](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/understanding-malware-classification/) - September 22, 2023 ### Incident response process There’s been a security incident in your organization. What do you do? Panic? No ;)! You follow an incident response process. In this article, we’re… Read article [Incident response process](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/incident-response-process/) - September 15, 2023 ### Network Access Control (NAC) In our course, we talk about Zero Trust and how it’s an approach that believes in continuously checking access and policy violations, even within internal… Read article [Network Access Control (NAC)](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/network-access-control-nac/) - September 13, 2023 ### Modes of operation We talked about ciphers and block ciphers in the prior post. A block cipher on its own would only ever encrypt a single block of… Read article [Modes of operation](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/modes-of-operation/) - September 8, 2023 ### Cipher Suites When you’re using symmetric encryption you can use what’s known as either a stream cipher or a block cipher. They both ultimately encrypt your data,… Read article [Cipher Suites](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/cipher-suites/) - September 1, 2023 ### Request forgeries (CSRF, XSRF, SSRF) In 2020, CheckPoint Research announced multiple vulnerabilities in the popular social media application named TikTok. One of the found vulnerabilities allowed an attacker to delete… Read article [Request forgeries (CSRF, XSRF, SSRF)](https://cybr.com/application-security-archives/request-forgeries-csrf-xsrf-ssrf/) - August 31, 2023 ### IaC Scanning and Policy as Code with Checkov \[Cheat Sheet\] We posted a video introducing the benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning and Policy as Code scanning, and why you absolutely should be running… Read article [IaC Scanning and Policy as Code with Checkov \[Cheat Sheet\]](https://cybr.com/cloud-security/iac-scanning-and-policy-as-code-with-checkov-cheat-sheet/) - August 29, 2023 ### Directory / Path Traversal Just like you have directories on your PC, laptop, and mobile phones, web servers also have directories. For example, if you were to purchase web… Read article [Directory / Path Traversal](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/directory-path-traversal/) - July 17, 2023 ### Answers to Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) | Security+ 601 This post contains the answers and explanations to our free Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) that we specifically designed to prepare you to take and pass the… Read article [Answers to Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) | Security+ 601](https://cybr.com/certifications-archives/answers-to-performance-based-questions-pbqs-security-601/) - July 7, 2023 ### Static Application Security Testing (SAST) What if you could take multiple senior developers and security experts, distill them into a tool, and then have the ability to run that tool… Read article [Static Application Security Testing (SAST)](https://cybr.com/explained-series/static-application-security-testing-sast-explained-in-180-seconds/) 1[2](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/page/2/)[3](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/page/3/)[4](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/page/4/)[5](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/page/5/) [Next](https://cybr.com/cybersecurity-fundamentals-archives/page/2/)