Definition

shovelware

Shovelware is content taken from any source and put on the Web as fast as possible with little regard for appearance and usability.

This was last updated in April 2005

Information governance is a holistic approach to managing corporate information by implementing processes, roles, controls and ...

Enterprise document management (EDM) is a strategy for overseeing an organization's paper and electronic documents so they can be...

Risk assessment is the identification of hazards that could negatively impact an organization's ability to conduct business.

Unified threat management (UTM) describes an information security (infosec) system that provides a single point of protection ...

Physical security is the protection of personnel, hardware, software, networks and data from physical actions and events that ...

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Protected health information (PHI), also referred to as personal health information, is the demographic information, medical ...

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HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is United States legislation that provides data privacy and security ...

Risk mitigation is a strategy to prepare for and lessen the effects of threats faced by a business.

A call tree is a layered hierarchical communication model that is used to notify specific individuals of an event and coordinate ...

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide ...

Cloud storage is a service model in which data is transmitted and stored on remote storage systems, where it is maintained, ...

Cloud testing is the process of using the cloud computing resources of a third-party service provider to test software ...

Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage ...