Glossary

One concept, one word. These are the terms used across the panel, emails, and these docs.

Term	Meaning
Workspace	Your organization’s space in Dynacop — resources, people, team, and settings live here.
Customer	A workspace you manage on behalf of a client (MSP model). Your company is the provider.
Resource	A protected machine (Windows server or desktop) running the agent.
Person	A human, identified by email. Never derived from a Windows login name.
Account	A Windows login account on a resource (e.g. Administrator). Never a human.
Access	The bond allowing a Person to sign in to a Resource (optionally: which Account, which protocol, until when).
Registration code	A DC-… code that authorizes a machine to join your workspace at install time. Single-use or a reusable key.
Invitation	An emailed one-time link a person uses to enroll their authenticator.
Authenticator	The person’s TOTP app (Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy — any standard app).
Shield	Dynacop’s attack-blocking layer: correlates failed sign-ins by source IP and blocks attackers in Windows Firewall.
Attack	A detected brute-force source — failed Windows sign-in events aggregated per source IP.
Block	A single firewall block against one IP: automatic (threshold), persistent (low-and-slow), or manual.
Monitor-only	A resource that watches sign-ins but doesn’t prompt for MFA (Require MFA on: none).
Enforced	A resource that requires the second factor on console and/or RDP sign-ins.
Fail-mode	What happens when MFA can’t complete: open = allow (default), closed = deny.
Trusted device	A browser that skips the email step of panel sign-in for 30 days.
Team	Your panel administrators and their roles (separate from people who merely sign in to machines).