The glossary below contains many of the terms you will find in common use throughout the Symantec Security Response Web site. Please refer to this list or the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to find definition of terms and answers to other Internet security-related questions.
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E
- e-business
- e-commerce
- EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)
- early warning
- ease (of exploit) rating
- editable text field
- EFS (Encrypting File System)
- eject
- email (infection host)
- email bomb
- email client
- email server
- email virus attack
- Embedded Database
- embedded file virus
- Emergency Policy Change
- employee group
- employee
- EMPTY
- EMR (Effects, Mechanisms, and Resources) values
- enabled data selection
- enabled path
- enabled policy
- enabled
- encapsulation
- enclosure-based naming
- enclosure
- encrypted attachment
- encrypted
- Encryption
- end-to-end encryption
- Endpoint Enforcement
- endpoint
- enforcement
- Enforcer
- Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) Domain
- Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) Host
- entitlement
- entry and exit ports
- environment specifications
- environment variable
- eProcess
- eradicate
- error handling
- error-handling rule
- escalation action
- ESM (Enterprise Security Manager)
- ESM Agent
- ESM Enterprise Console
- ESM Manager
- ESP (Encapsulated Security Payload)
- Ethernet
- evacuate
- evaluation
- event aggregation
- event archive
- event class
- event collection
- event collector
- event escalation action
- event family
- event filtering
- event forwarding
- event management
- event normalization
- event priority
- event
- events
- evidence database
- evidence definition
- evidence
- EVSN
- EVSystemInfo.exe
- exabyte
- exception employee
- exception request
- exception
- exclude files
- exclude list
- excluded hosts
- exclusion rules
- executable types
- expert installation method
- expiration (image)
- expiration (volume)
- exploit
- exploits
- explorer
- export shares
- Expunger
- Extended Copy (ECOPY)
- extended discovery
- Extended MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface)
- Extended Partition Boot Record (EPBR)
- extended partition
- extensible
- extension
- extent attribute
- extent attributes
- extent pool
- extent
- external authentication
- external mass storage device
- external media ID
- external quotas file
- external threat
- extra marks
- extranet
- Extremely Heavy Activity Threshold