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- BPCP - A disaster recovery plan (DRP) -- sometimes referred to as a business...
- brain fingerprinting - Brain fingerprinting is a controversi...
- browser hijacker - A browser hijacker (sometimes called hijackwa...
- browser hijacker (hijackware) - A browser hijacker ...
- brute force - Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a t...
- brute force cracking - Brute force (also known as brute forc...
- bucket brigade - A bucket brigade attack is one in which the attac...
- buffer overflow - A buffer overflow occurs when a program or proc...
- Bugbear - Bugbear is a computer virus that spread in early October, 2002,...
- business continuity plan - A disaster recovery plan (DRP...
- business logic attack - A business logic attack is an explo...
- business process contingency plan - A disaster ...
- bypass - Bypass, in general, means either to go around something by an ext...
- CA - (CA also stands for conditional access, a term used in DTV.) A certificat...
- CA-ACF2 - ACF2 (more formally, CA-ACF2; the ACF stands for Access Control...
- cache cramming - Cache cramming is a method of tricking a computer...
- cache poisoning - Cache poisoning, also called domain name system...
- cache poisoning (domain name system poisoning o...
- caller ID spoofing - Caller ID spoofing is a service that allo...
- CAN - A corporate area network (CAN) is a separate, protected portion of a co...
- capacitive scanner - A capacitive scanner is a fingerscanning ...
- capture - Capture is the process or means of obtaining and storing extern...
- card verification value - Card verification value (CVV) i...
- card verification value (CVV) - Card verification v...
- Cardholder Information Security Program - Payme...
- Cardholder Information Security Program Payment...
- Carnivore - Carnivore was an Internet surveillance system developed for...
- CBC - Cipher block chaining (CBC) is a mode of operation for a block cipher (...
- cell phone spam - SMS spam (sometimes called cell phone spam) is ...
- certificate authority - (CA also stands for conditional acc...
- certificate authority (CA) - (CA also stands for condi...
- Certificate Revocation List - Certificate Revocation ...
- Certificate Revocation List (CRL) - Certificate...
- certification - In information technology as in other fields such a...
- Certified Information Systems Security Professi...
- Certified Information Systems Security Professi...
- CFB - Ciphertext feedback (CFB) is a mode of operation for a block cipher. In...
- chaffing - Chaffing and winnowing are dual components of a privacy-enhan...
- chaffing and winnowing - Chaffing and winnowing are dual c...
- challenge response authentication mechanism
- challenge-response authentication mechanism
- Chernobyl virus - The Chernobyl virus is a computer virus with a ...
- cipher - A cipher (pronounced SAI-fuhr) is any method of encrypting text (...
- cipher block chaining - Cipher block chaining (CBC) is a mo...
- cipher block chaining (CBC) - Cipher block chaining (...
- ciphertext - Ciphertext is encrypted text.
- ciphertext feedback - Ciphertext feedback (CFB) is a mode of ...
- ciphertext feedback (CFB) - Ciphertext feedback (CFB) i...
- CISP PCI - CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program) and PCI (Payme...
- CISP-PCI - CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program) and PCI (Payme...
- CISP-PCI (Cardholder Information Security Progr...
- CISPA - The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) of 2011 i...
- CISSP - The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exa...
- Class C2 - Class C2 is a security rating established by the U.S. Nationa...
- clickjacking - Clickjacking (also known as user-interface or UI redr...
- clickjacking (user-interface or UI redressing a...
- clipboard hijack attack - A clipboard hijacking is an exp...
- Clipper - The Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) is a standard for encryp...
- cloud cartography - Cloud cartography is a scheme for pinpointi...
- CloudAV - CloudAV is a program that combines multiple antivirus applicati...
- COBIT - COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology) i...
- COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and R...
- cocooning - Cocooning is the act of insulating or hiding oneself from t...
- cold site - A hot site is a commercial disaster recovery service that a...
- command injection - Command injection is the insertion of HTML ...
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - Commo...
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
- Common Weakness Enumeration - Common Weakness Enumera...
- Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - Common Weak...
- computer barnacle - In a computer, a barnacle is unwanted progr...
- Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
- Computer-based Discovery - Electronic discovery (also ca...
- Conficker - Conficker is a fast-spreading worm that targets a vulnerabi...
- Consumer Data Privacy - Consumer privacy, also known as cus...
- consumer privacy - Consumer privacy, also known as customer priv...
- consumer privacy (customer privacy) - Consume...
- Content Discovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-discove...
- Content Protection for Removable Media
- Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM)
- Control Objectives for Information and Related ...
- cookie poisoning - On the Web, cookie poisoning is the modificat...
- corporate area network - A corporate area network (CAN) is...
- corporate area network (CAN) - A corporate area netw...
- corporate cloud - Private cloud (also called internal cloud) is a...
- CPRM - Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM) is a hardware-based tec...
- cracker - A cracker is someone who breaks into someone else's computer sy...
- cracking - Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial a...
- CRAM - CRAM (challenge-response authentication mechanism) is the two-level s...
- CRAM (challenge-response authentication mechanism)
- CRL - Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is one of two common methods when usi...
- cryptographic checksum - A cryptographic checksum is a mat...
- cryptography - Cryptography is the science of information security.
- cryptology - Cryptology is the mathematics, such as number theory, and...
- cryptoperiod - A cryptoperiod (sometimes called a key lifetime or a ...
- cryptoperiod (key lifetime or a validity period)
- Customer Data Privacy - Consumer privacy, also known as cus...
- customer privacy - Consumer privacy, also known as customer priv...
- CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a list of standard terms ...
- CVV - Card verification value (CVV) is a combination of features used in cred...
- CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a universal online dictionary of w...
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- Apple Authorized Service Provider (Apple ASP)
  
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- authorized service provider (ASP)
  
  An authorized service provider (ASP) is an individual or an organization that is permitted to service products that are covered by warranties held by another entity. Service conducted by anyone other than an authorized service provider will generally render a warranty void.
- hosted services
  
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- Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP)
  
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- BPaaS (Business Process as a Service)
  
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- Microsoft FIM (Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager)
  
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- Microsoft Software Assurance (SA)
  
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- DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter)
  
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- Opscode Chef
  
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- Zabbix
  
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- bare-metal provisioning
  
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- SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud)
  
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- Vine (Vine app)
  
  Vine is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six seconds.
- Google Wallet
  
  Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows smartphone users to store debit and credit card information for online and in-store purchases.
- sunk cost (SC)
  
  A sunk cost is money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. Logic dictates that because sunk costs will not change -- no matter what actions are taken -- they should not play a role in decision-making. Emotionally, however, the more someone invests time, effort and money on something, the harder it becomes to leave it and move on.
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- I/O contention (input/output contention)
  
  I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a limited storage bandwidth.
- erasure coding
  
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- pNFS (Parallel NFS)
  
  The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) is part of the NFS v4.1 protocol that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel.

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