Glossary
GL-24
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Appliance and Module Installation Guide for IPS 7.0
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watch list rating
WLR. A weight associated with the CSA MC watch list in the range of 0 to 100 (CSA MC only uses
the range 0 to 35).
Web Server
A component of the IPS. Waits for remote HTTP client requests and calls the appropriate servlet
application.
WHOIS
A TCP-based query/response protocol used for querying an official database to determine the owner of
a domain name or an IP address.
Wireshark
Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer for UNIX and Windows. It lets you examine data from a
live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing
summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a
rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. For more
information, see
http://www.wireshark.org
.
worm
A computer program that can run independently, can propagate a complete working version of itself
onto other hosts on a network, and can consume computer resources destructively.
X
X.509
Standard that defines information contained in a certificate.
XML
eXtensible Markup Language. Textual file format used for data interchange between heterogeneous
hosts.
Z
zone
A set of destination IP addresses sorted into an internal, illegal, or external zone used by Anomaly
Detection.