Nova AI-Native Autonomous Cloud Defense Platform
BY HANSEC

Nova glossary

Use plain definitions for the public Nova terms that appear across evaluation, product, connection, trust, and support guidance.

Product and scope

Nova
Hansec's platform for cloud security, threat detection, incident investigation and response.
Customer workspace
The approved Nova boundary for one customer and its accessible security information.
Organization
An additional business grouping used where a customer separates divisions, environments, or managed customers.
Connection
An approved link that lets Nova receive evidence from or perform a supported interaction with another system.
Source
The provider, environment, or system from which evidence originates.

Evidence and assessment

Evidence
A source record, observed fact, or retained supporting item used in a security assessment.
Event
A record describing activity or state at a point in time.
Finding
An assessed condition that may need review, ownership, or correction.
Alert
A security signal produced when defined or assessed behavior needs attention.
Observed
Supported directly by eligible source evidence.
Inferred
A conclusion drawn from evidence rather than a directly observed fact.
Simulated
A modeled or tested possibility that must not be presented as observed activity.
Confidence
How strongly the available evidence supports a stated assessment under its current scope.
Priority
The relative need for attention based on the available impact, evidence, urgency, and context.

Coverage and workflow

Coverage
The intended scope for which eligible evidence was available and assessed.
Freshness
How recent the latest successful evidence is compared with the expected source timing.
Stale
Older than expected and potentially no longer representative of the environment.
Partial
Some intended evidence was assessed while a stated portion was unavailable or incomplete.
Not assessed
There is not enough approved evidence to make the stated assessment.
Investigation
Owned work that brings relevant evidence, assessment, decisions, and activity together.
Response controls
Permissions, policies and approvals that determine whether a response action may run, with a record of its result.
Outcome
The recorded resolution, accepted risk, supported action, or other reviewed end state.

Languages and engines

NQL
Nova's language for narrowing eligible event evidence during search.
NovaQL
Nova's language for defining and reviewing detection rules.
Qyronis
The Nova engine for behavior observation and explainable change from available baselines.
NovaSignal
The Nova engine for explainable prioritization and confidence.
NADE
The Nova engine that identifies gaps in detection coverage and proposes improvements for review.
Velora
The Nova investigation engine that helps analysts understand related activity and decide what to check next.
VFP
Controlled-preview pattern intelligence where that capability is included.
RAZE
The Nova engine that explores possible attack scenarios and the evidence needed to test them.
DRX
The Nova engine that coordinates supported response actions under customer policies and approvals.
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