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title: "Security Monitoring glossary"
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# Security Monitoring glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

You must become familiar with a few terms to use Security Monitoring. The glossary and its description are as follows.

### Anti-DDoS

This is an abbreviation for Anti-Distributed Denial of Service. It is a DDoS attack defense service that helps realize stable operation of the user's service by detecting and blocking DDoS attacks.

### DDoS

This is an abbreviation for Distributed Denial of Service. Refers to attacks that deplete resources to prevent the user's service from being operated normally.

### V1

An abbreviation that refers to the Classic environment

### V2

An abbreviation that refers to the VPC environment

### Security event

A unit for the result of performing detections and actions in Security Monitoring. Generally used as a synonym of event.

### Anti-virus

An anti-virus service that supports the stable operation of the service by detecting, isolating, and deleting malware on servers operated by the user in real time

### WAF (Web Application Firewall)

A web firewall service that detects and blocks attacking traffic by monitoring web-based (HTTP/HTTPS) traffic

### Event

A unit for the result of performing detections and actions in Security Monitoring. Generally used as a synonym of security event.

### IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)

A service that detects and blocks malicious attacks (intrusions) attempted against the user's service.

### IDS (Intrusion Detection System)

An intrusion detection service that detects malicious attacks (intrusions) attempted against the user's service open to the outside

          Note

          

To see a full list of terms and definitions, go to [Glossary](https://www.ncloud.com/guideCenter/glossary) from the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.