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Posts Tagged ‘Glossary’
Access control
In computer security, access control includes authentication, authorization and audit. It also includes measures such as physical devices, including biometric scans and metal locks, hidden paths, digital signatures, encryption, social barriers, and monitoring by humans and automated systems. In any access control model, the entities that can perform actions in the ...
What is configuration management
There are a number of different interpretations. For purposes of this newsgroup, we are talking about tracking and control of software development and its activities. That is, the mangement of software development projects with respect to issues such as multiple developers working ...
Abuse
The willful or negligent unauthorized activity that affects the availability, confidentiality, or integrity of computer resources. Computer abuse includes fraud, embezzlement, theft, malicious damage, unauthorized use, denial of service, and misappropriation. Computer abuse incidents Exposure of Social Security Numbers and home addresses Replacement of a departmental web site with obscenities Infection of a ...
AUP - Accepted User Policy
An AUP is a formal definition of the organization's terms and conditions for the use of its equipment or services. It often refers specifically to Internet use. For example, a company's Internet AUP would specify what is and what is not acceptable use of ...
AAA - authentication authorization accounting
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, 3A, Access Authentication and Authorization, Administration (Security), and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting DEFINITION: Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) is a term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the information necessary to bill for services. These combined processes ...
A5
The GSM encryption algorithm, A5, is not much good. Its effective key length is at most five bytes; and anyone with the time and energy to look for faster attacks can find source code for it at the bottom of this post. The politics of all this is bizarre. Readers may recall that ...
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