{"id":6393,"date":"2026-05-04T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/docs\/connexite-documentation\/connexgate-documentation\/connexgate-glossary-and-appendix\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:19:11","slug":"connexgate-glossary-and-appendix","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/docs\/ot-security\/connexgate-documentation\/connexgate-glossary-and-appendix\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary and Appendix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"connexite-doc-h2\">Glossary<\/h2>\n<p>OT (Operational Technology): Hardware and software systems that monitor and control physical devices and processes in industrial environments.<\/p>\n<p>SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition): System architecture for monitoring and controlling industrial processes.<\/p>\n<p>PLC (Programmable Logic Controller): Industrial computer used for automation and control.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Server: Virtual server that mimics a real PLC, proxying requests to the actual device while applying security filters.<\/p>\n<p>NAT (Network Address Translation): Method of remapping IP addresses and ports for routing traffic between networks.<\/p>\n<p>Modbus: Industrial communication protocol for connecting electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Profinet: Industrial Ethernet standard for automation.<\/p>\n<p>S7: Siemens S7 communication protocol used in Profinet systems.<\/p>\n<p>DCP (Discovery and Configuration Protocol): Profinet protocol for device discovery and configuration.<\/p>\n<p>ACL (Access Control List): List of permissions defining access rights for IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing): Notation for IP addresses and routing (e.g., 192.168.1.0\/24).<\/p>\n<p>JWT (JSON Web Token): Compact token format for secure information exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Syslog: Standard protocol for message logging.<\/p>\n<p>MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport): Lightweight messaging protocol for IoT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OT\/ICS \u203a Security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6387,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[118,115,120],"class_list":["post-6393","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-connexgate-documentation","doc_tag-connexite","doc_tag-ot-security","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6393\/revisions\/6441"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}