Glossary
Terms that appear in this Trust Center, explained in plain language.
- High availability (HA)
- The ability of a system to keep running through failures, without noticeable
interruption.
- Encryption at rest
- Protection of data while it is stored, so that it cannot be read without the
corresponding key.
- Encryption in transit
- Protection of data while it travels over the network (for example, between
your browser and the application), using HTTPS/TLS.
- DPA (Data Processing Agreement)
- Contract that regulates, under the GDPR, how the processor handles personal
data on behalf of the controller.
- Processor
- The party that processes personal data on behalf of the controller. In
Dyncloud, Dynapps Spain.
- Kubernetes
- The industry's open standard for orchestrating containerized applications:
it runs them, monitors them and repairs them automatically.
- MFA / 2FA (two-step verification)
- An access method that requires, in addition to the password, a second
factor (for example, a code), strengthening security.
- PITR (point-in-time recovery)
- The ability to restore a database to the state it had at a specific moment
in the past.
- Controller
- The party that decides what personal data is processed and for what
purpose. Normally, you as the customer.
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.
- RPO (recovery point objective)
- The maximum amount of data (measured in time) that could be lost in an
incident.
- RTO (recovery time objective)
- The maximum expected time to restore service after an incident.
- SLA (Service Level Agreement)
- Document that defines the service commitments: availability, response
times, etc.
- SSO (single sign-on)
- Accessing the application with your corporate identity provider's
credentials, without additional passwords.
- Sub-processor
- A provider the processor relies on for part of the processing (for
example, storage of backups).
- TLS
- Encryption protocol that protects communications over the Internet (the
"s" in HTTPS). Dyncloud uses TLS 1.2 and 1.3.