Reference
Glossary
The essential terms of Sentinet³ Core and the Infinity modules, in alphabetical order.
Entries in alphabetical order
Where available, each entry links to the page where the function or concept is described in more detail.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agentic AI | Engine that translates a natural language request into analytical functions that are run and correlated. |
| Antiflooding | Control of the volume of repeated notifications. |
| Appliance | Physical or virtual system on which the Sentinet³ platform is installed. |
| Asset Risk Index | Risk indicator for an individual asset. |
| Attack path | Possible path by which an attacker can reach a critical asset. |
| Attack surface | The set of services and processes listening on a host that can be reached from outside. |
| Autodiscovery | Automatic discovery of hosts, ports and services. |
| Behavioural Learning Engine | Analysis of metric behaviour and support for thresholds. |
| Chokepoint | Node crossed by several attack paths, whose protection breaks a number of them. |
| Continuous VA | Continuous vulnerability checking based on the inventory collected by the agents. |
| CTEM | Continuous Threat Exposure Management: ongoing management of exposure to threats. |
| CVE / CVSS | Public identifier of a vulnerability and its severity score. |
| Enterprise Console | Concise operational view of host and service states, with filters and groupings. |
| Escalation | Transfer of the alert to the next level if the issue persists beyond the expected interval. |
| Federated monitoring | Coordinated reading of environments distributed across different sites or management scopes. |
| Flow export | NetFlow, sFlow or IPFIX records exported by routers, switches and firewalls that describe communications. |
| Global Risk Score | Summary indicator of the risk of the infrastructure as a whole. |
| Host | Identified and monitored system or device. |
| Infinity modules | Specialised modules that extend Core: Network, Security, Threat and AI Insight, as well as Application Insight. |
| Interface Inspector | Function that identifies the interfaces of a network device and brings them under monitoring. |
| Link service | Service that summarises the status of the connection between two points on a geographic map. |
| MITRE ATT&CK | Public classification of tactics and techniques used by attackers. |
| NetFlow check | Periodic query on flows turned into a check with thresholds, status and notifications. |
| Network Topology | Representation of network relationships and links. |
| Path Risk Score | Risk indicator for a possible attack path. |
| Pattern | Reusable set of checks for a technology or type of host. |
| Root Cause Analysis | Analysis aimed at finding the primary cause of an issue. |
| SBOM | Software Bill of Materials: inventory of the software components and versions of an asset. |
| Sensor Probe | Device for acquiring environmental measurements. |
| Service / check | Check configured on a resource, with status, threshold and frequency. |
| SIEM Integration | Association of SIEM alerts with hosts and with service and dependency maps. |
| Situation Analysis | Analysis of infrastructure KPIs and trends over observation periods. |
| SLA | Measurement of availability and service levels over an interval. |
| Tactical Overview | Customisable page with the checks, charts and reports that matter most to the operator. |
| Time Machine | Reconstruction of consoles and maps at a past date and time. |
| Top talker | Host among the largest producers or recipients of traffic in a period. |
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