Security Glossary Published

Having trouble differentiating your accreditation package from your accreding authority? Or your object identifier from your online certification status profile? Or, for that matter, your one-way hash from your optional topography?

What all of these terms have in common are that they all deal with security. But these are the a tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of basic security terms. To help you keep all these terms straight, and to ensure that you and others are on the same frequency, the NIST has published its Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, a glossary of basic security terms for the security industry.

The terms included are not all inclusive of terms found in these publications, but are a subset of basic terms that are most frequently used. The purpose of the glossary is to provide a central resource of definitions most commonly used in NIST security publications.

Each entry in the glossary points to one or more source NIST publications, and in addition, supplemental sources where appropriate. A list of the supplemental (non-NIST) sources is also provided.

Finally, the glossary will be updated with new definitions as needed, and updated versions will be posted at Computer Security Resource Center .

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