Glossary: Letter S

Structured Query Language: a standard programming language for managing and manipulating relational databases. SQL enables querying, inserting, updating, and deleting data, as well as creating and mod...

Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security: cryptographic protocols that provide secure communication over a computer network. TLS (the successor to SSL) encrypts data in transit between web brow...

Software as a Service: a cloud computing model where applications are hosted by a provider and made available to users over the internet on a subscription basis. Examples include Slack, Salesforce, an...