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Key terms and concepts

Key terms and concepts

Term	Definition
ATR	FortiGuard Applied Threat Research
Behavioral Observation	A Behavioral Observation is an output from a system that analyzes events and behaviors to identify potentially malicious activity (e.g., Domain Similar to Malware DGA Domain and Malicious PE File). Depending on your environment, not all Behavioral Observations indicate malicious activity. For example, if you recently created a new SSH server, then the New SSH Server observation is not malicious. See, Behavioral observations.
Detection	An alert mechanism that notifies you when a unique pair of events satisfy a detector. Detections allow you to quickly identify and respond to suspicious or known malicious activity in your network.
Detection lifecycle	The status states of a detection (Active, Muted, or Resolved).
Detector	A query and other parameters used to detect something.
Dwell	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was first seen and when it was resolved. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
Example	Example dashboards are custom dashboards created by Fortinet and shared with all customers, allowing users to view and use them within their own environments.
Five-tuple (5-tuple)	The source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, and transport protocol. For more information, see Network events.
Flow	A collection of continuous packets having the same unique five-tuple (source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, transport protocol) within a short time frame.
Indicators	An indicator is a field value extracted from a detection's event(s) as defined by the detector. This information is useful for identifying related activity and tracking indicators over time. Detectors can define up to five fields to extract indicators from, and each detection can store up to five unique indicators for each indicator field.
Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was first seen and when it was created in the system. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR)	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was created and when it was resolved. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
MITRE ATT&CK	MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base of threat behaviors relied upon by security professionals worldwide. You can map FortiGuard Lab detectors to MITRE ATT&CK, to enable visibility into the threat coverage provided by FortiNDR Cloud.
Tuning	The process of hiding known behaviors in a detector using one of the following three mechanisms: Muting: Hides a detection but allows it to be created. Muted detections can be reviewed in bulk on a recurring basis. See Muting detectors. Excluding: Prevents detections from ever being created. Excluded detections cannot be reviewed in bulk on a recurring basis. See Excluding devices. Filtering: Tuned out everything else, (such as external entities and non-entity fields) by adding your own logic to detectors authored by FortiGuard Labs to customize the detector to your network. See Adding filters to detectors.

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Key terms and concepts

Term	Definition
ATR	FortiGuard Applied Threat Research
Behavioral Observation	A Behavioral Observation is an output from a system that analyzes events and behaviors to identify potentially malicious activity (e.g., Domain Similar to Malware DGA Domain and Malicious PE File). Depending on your environment, not all Behavioral Observations indicate malicious activity. For example, if you recently created a new SSH server, then the New SSH Server observation is not malicious. See, Behavioral observations.
Detection	An alert mechanism that notifies you when a unique pair of events satisfy a detector. Detections allow you to quickly identify and respond to suspicious or known malicious activity in your network.
Detection lifecycle	The status states of a detection (Active, Muted, or Resolved).
Detector	A query and other parameters used to detect something.
Dwell	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was first seen and when it was resolved. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
Example	Example dashboards are custom dashboards created by Fortinet and shared with all customers, allowing users to view and use them within their own environments.
Five-tuple (5-tuple)	The source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, and transport protocol. For more information, see Network events.
Flow	A collection of continuous packets having the same unique five-tuple (source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, transport protocol) within a short time frame.
Indicators	An indicator is a field value extracted from a detection's event(s) as defined by the detector. This information is useful for identifying related activity and tracking indicators over time. Detectors can define up to five fields to extract indicators from, and each detection can store up to five unique indicators for each indicator field.
Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was first seen and when it was created in the system. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR)	Average time (in seconds) between when an incident was created and when it was resolved. See the FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report section in FortiNDR Cloud Detections Report.
MITRE ATT&CK	MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base of threat behaviors relied upon by security professionals worldwide. You can map FortiGuard Lab detectors to MITRE ATT&CK, to enable visibility into the threat coverage provided by FortiNDR Cloud.
Tuning	The process of hiding known behaviors in a detector using one of the following three mechanisms: Muting: Hides a detection but allows it to be created. Muted detections can be reviewed in bulk on a recurring basis. See Muting detectors. Excluding: Prevents detections from ever being created. Excluded detections cannot be reviewed in bulk on a recurring basis. See Excluding devices. Filtering: Tuned out everything else, (such as external entities and non-entity fields) by adding your own logic to detectors authored by FortiGuard Labs to customize the detector to your network. See Adding filters to detectors.

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