Key terminology changes and clarification

One of the side effects of connecting business, technology, and security teams together is terminology confusion. As these teams start working more closely together, they often face points of confusion around language, terminology, and its meaning.

Some terminology and concepts are new to teams that haven’t worked together before, some of the same (or similar) terminology has different meanings to different teams, some terminology is new to everyone, and some common terminology is just outdated and misleading.

The most common points of confusion typically center around the use of the words assets (and related words), operations (and related words), and the network (or the enterprise).

Newer terminology – technical estate

The series uses “technical estate” or “technology estate” to refer to all technology used by an organization to get work done, including all data and all IT, Operational...