JWT (JSON Web Token)
A compact, signed token format commonly used to represent a logged-in session.
Learn it through a story
- The Token That Knew Too Much (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 6)
Related terms
- IT Act (India) India's primary law covering unauthorised computer access and related offences.
- Jailbreak A trick that gets a chatbot to ignore its safety rules.
- Jailbreaking Tricking an AI model into bypassing its own safety guidelines.
- KYC Know Your Customer, the paperwork banks use to confirm who you are.
- Lateral movement An attacker moving from one compromised system to another inside a network.
- Least privilege Giving an app, or a person, only the access they truly need, nothing more.