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- drive-by pharming - Drive-by pharming is a vulnerability exploi...
- drive-by spamming - Drive-by spamming is a variation of drive-b...
- DRP - A disaster recovery plan (DRP) -- sometimes referred to as a business c...
- DSCI - The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a not-for-profit organiz...
- DSO exploit - A data source object (DSO) exploit is a form of spyware...
- DSO exploit (data source object exploit)
- DSS - Digital Signature Standard (DSS) is the digital signature algorithm(DSA...
- dumb - A dumb network is one that provides the physical interconnection betw...
- dumb network - A dumb network is one that provides the physical inte...
- dump site - A topsite is a stringently protected underground FTP server...
- Duqu - Duqu is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that is designed to steal data f...
- Duqu (W32.Duqu) - Duqu is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that is de...
- dynamic packet filter - A dynamic packet filter is a firewa...
- e discovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or edisco...
- e-discovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or edisco...
- e-Mail Discoverability - Electronic discovery (also called...
- e-mail forgery - E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail heade...
- eavesdropping - Eavesdropping is the unauthorized real-time interce...
- ECB - Electronic Code Book (ECB) is a mode of operation for a block cipher, w...
- ECC - Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is a public key encryption techniqu...
- Echelon - Echelon is an officially unacknowledged U.S.-led global spy net...
- EDD - Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or ediscovery) refers to ...
- ediscovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or ediscove...
- EES - The Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) is a standard for encrypted comm...
- EFS - The Encrypting File System (EFS) is a feature of the Windows 2000 opera...
- egress filtering - Egress filtering is a process in which outbou...
- Electrohippies Collective - The Electrohippies Collecti...
- Electronic Code Book - Electronic Code Book (ECB) is a mode ...
- Electronic Code Book (ECB) - Electronic Code Book (ECB...
- Electronic Content Discovery - Electronic discovery ...
- Electronic Data Discovery - Electronic discovery (also ...
- Electronic Data Management - Electronic discovery (als...
- electronic discovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-d...
- electronic discovery (e-discovery or ediscovery)
- Electronic Document Discovery - Electronic discover...
- Electronic Evidence - Electronic discovery (also called e-dis...
- Electronic Evidence Discovery - Electronic discover...
- Electronic Information Discovery - Electronic di...
- Electronic-discovery - Electronic discovery (also called e-d...
- Elk Cloner - Elk Cloner was the first computer virus known to have spr...
- elliptical curve cryptography - Elliptical curve cr...
- elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) - Ellipti...
- Email Discoverability - Electronic discovery (also called e...
- eMail Evidence Discovery - Electronic discovery (also ca...
- eMail Search and Discovery - Electronic discovery (als...
- email spoofing - E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail heade...
- emanation monitoring - Tempest was the name of a classified ...
- emergency management plan - An emergency management pla...
- EMR-shielding - Tempest was the name of a classified (secret) U.S. ...
- encoding - Encoding is the process of putting a sequence of characters (...
- encoding and decoding - Encoding is the process of putting ...
- encoding/decoding - Encoding is the process of putting a sequen...
- encrypt - Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciph...
- Encrypting File System - The Encrypting File System (EFS) ...
- Encrypting File System (EFS) - The Encrypting File S...
- encryption - Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called ...
- encryption/decryption IC - A data encryption/decryption ...
- endpoint fingerprinting - Endpoint fingerprinting is a fe...
- endpoint security - Endpoint security is an approach to network...
- Enterprise Search and Discovery - Electronic disc...
- Escrowed Encryption Standard - The Escrowed Encrypti...
- Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) - The Escro...
- ethical hacker - An ethical hacker is a computer and network exper...
- ethical hacking - An ethical hacker is a computer and network exp...
- ethical worm - An ethical worm is a program that automates network-b...
- evil twin - In security, an evil twin is a home-made wireless access po...
- exploit - In computing, an exploit is an attack on a computer system, esp...
- exponential key exchange - Diffie-Hellman key exchange, ...
- extrusion prevention - Extrusion prevention is the practice ...
- FACTA - FACTA (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act) is an amendment t...
- FACTA (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act)
- Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act - FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting...
- false acceptance - False acceptance, also called a type II error...
- false acceptance (type II error) - False accepta...
- false rejection - False rejection, also called a type I error, is...
- false rejection (type I error) - False rejection, ...
- false rejection rate - False rejection, also called a type I...
- FAR - False acceptance, also called a type II error, is a mistake occasionall...
- Faraday cage - A Faraday cage is a metallic enclosure that prevents ...
- fast flux DNS - Fast flux DNS is a technique that a cybercriminal c...
- FCRA - FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) is a United States Law that regulate...
- FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) - FCRA (Fair Cr...
- Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
- federated identity management - Federated Identity ...
- federated identity management (FIM) - Federat...
- FFIEC compliance - FFIEC compliance is conformance to a set of s...
- FFIEC compliance (Federal Financial Institution...
- FH-CDMA - Frequency hopping is one of two basic modulation techniques use...
- FIM - Federated Identity Management (FIM) is an arrangement that can be made ...
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - Finan...
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
- FinCEN - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the ...
- finger image - Fingerscanning, also called fingerprint scanning, is ...
- fingernail storage - Fingernail storage is a method of writing...
- fingerprint scanning - Fingerscanning, also called fingerpri...
- fingerscanning - Fingerscanning, also called fingerprint scanning,...
- fingerscanning (fingerprint scanning) - Fin...
- FIPS PUB 197 - The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encrypti...
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- Apple Authorized Service Provider (Apple ASP)
  
  An Apple Authorized Service Provider (Apple ASP) is an individual or organization that can legally service Apple products although their warranties are held by other entities. Service by anyone other than an authorized service provider (ASP) will render a product's warranty void.
- 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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- Kronos Inc.
  
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- BPaaS (Business Process as a Service)
  
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- Microsoft FIM (Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager)
  
  Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is a self-service identity management software suite.
- Microsoft Software Assurance (SA)
  
  Microsoft Assurance Software is a program that was introduced in 2002 to help users with the maintenance of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and applications for the server and desktop.
- DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter)
  
  DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter) is a tool in Active Directory that installs and removes Active Directory Domain Services and promotes domain controllers.
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- Opscode Chef
  
  Chef is an open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework created by Opscode. Devops can use Chef to deploy and manage servers and applications in-house and in the cloud.
- Zabbix
  
  Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.
- bare-metal provisioning
  
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- SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud)
  
  SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud) is the convergence of collaborative, on-the-go technologies that allow users to access data and applications from anywhere at any time.
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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
  
  Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces, and stored across a set of different locations, such as disks, storage nodes or geographic locations.
- 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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