Cisco IPS-4255-K9 - Intrusion Protection Sys 4255 Installation Manual page 396

Glossary
WLR. A weight associated with the CSA MC watch list in the range of 0 to 100 (CSA MC only uses
watch list rating
the range 0 to 35).
A component of the IPS. Waits for remote HTTP client requests and calls the appropriate servlet
Web Server
application.
A TCP-based query/response protocol used for querying an official database to determine the owner of
WHOIS
a domain name or an IP address.
Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer for UNIX and Windows. It lets you examine data from a
Wireshark
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.
A computer program that can run independently, can propagate a complete working version of itself
worm
onto other hosts on a network, and can consume computer resources destructively.
X
Standard that defines information contained in a certificate.
X.509
eXtensible Markup Language. Textual file format used for data interchange between heterogeneous
XML
hosts.
Z
A set of destination IP addresses sorted into an internal, illegal, or external zone used by Anomaly
zone
Detection.
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Appliance and Module Installation Guide for IPS 7.0
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