{"id":6314,"date":"2026-05-04T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/connexite-documentation\/connexgate-documentation\/connexgate-glossary-and-appendix\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:02:01","slug":"connexgate-glossary-and-appendix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/connexite-documentation\/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":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":6308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6314\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.connexite.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}