What is the difference between a Technology and a Tool?
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For a more in-depth exploration of the various technologies, please read the Guide to the Technical Drilldown.
In the Integrations menu, you can see both technologies and tools.
Technologies perform a specific function, and fulfil a particular form of protection within cyber security. For each technology, their may be many tools which achieve that form of protection.
For example; Email Filtering is a technology concerned with the analysis of inbound and outbound emails for suspicious content. Tools which provide Email Filtering technology include Vipre and SpamTitan.
The technologies listed under Integrations are:
- Patch Management
- Email Filtering
- Web Filtering
- Phishing Training
- Incident Response
- Endpoint Protection
- SIEM/IDS
- Dark Web Monitoring
- Vulnerability Management
Clicking into any of these will show you the tools that are available for that specific technology.