Overview

Glossary of HP-UX HIDS Terms

System Manager

The graphical user interface (GUI) through which you control the operations of HP-UX HIDS and where notification of alerts occurs.

Virus

A piece of potentially malicious code that, when run, attaches itself to

 

(“infects”) other programs, running again when those programs are

 

run.

Vulnerability

A point at which a system can be subverted by an attacker.

 

Vulnerabilities result from flaws in coding or design.

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