Master index
Understand the cybersecurity tool landscape.
Every category, vendor, and tool explained in plain English and cross-referenced by domain — no sales pitch, nothing to buy.
216 tools140 vendors32 categories126 glossary terms
Four ways in
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Four categories everyone should know first.
The rest of the landscape builds on these. Read the plain-English explainer for each before you go looking for specific tools.
EDR/XDREndpoint & Extended Detection and ResponseRecords process, file, and network activity on laptops and servers so security teams can detect, investigate, and contain attacks that bypass preventive controls.SIEMSecurity Information & Event ManagementThe security team's central log warehouse: collects events from everything in the environment, correlates them into alerts, and gives analysts one place to search when something looks wrong.IAM/SSOIdentity & Access Management / Single Sign-OnThe system employees log into once to reach every other work app, and the system IT uses to control who gets access to what — the front door for almost everything else in a company's software stack.NGFWNext-Generation FirewallControls traffic entering and leaving a network. In addition to addresses and ports, it identifies applications, inspects content, and blocks known attack patterns.
The nine domains
One color, everywhere that domain shows up.
Endpoint tools are always teal, identity always violet — the same nine-color key holds across the map, the category index, and every tool card.