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Parent topics
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
- Risk assessment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Privacy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auditing [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Access control [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Authentication [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. [e]
- Cryptanalysis [r]: The sub-field of cryptology which deals with breaking into existing codes and ciphers. [e]
- Cryptography [r]: A field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the security of information, typically the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of some message. [e]
- Digital certificate [r]: A means by which the user of a public key can obtain it from a central repository, with high confidence that key is correct and has not been revoked [e]
- Low probability of intercept [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. [e]
- Miscreant [r]: One who enters a computer or computer network without authorization by the owner or administrator, regardless of the motivation for entry [e]
- Official Secrets Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bank Secrecy Act [r]: A piece of legislation with a somewhat confusing name, as it is intended to strip secrecy from certain bank customers who engage in possibly illegal activities, suggestive of money laundering or tax evasion [e]
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [r]: a 1996 U.S. statute protecting the confidentiality of medical records [e]
- Patriot Act [r]: a controversial law expanding the ability of the U.S. government to surveil both U. S. citizens and foreign nationals around the world, passed immediately after the 9/11 attack [e]
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
- Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. [e]
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act [r]: Enacted in 2002 in response to major accounting scandals resulting in the collapse of major U.S. corporations, a strict set of rules for financial responsibility and audit in public companies; currently being challenged as overkill [e]
- Social engineering [r]: Subverting a security system by deceiving its users. [e]
- Transborder data flow [r]: Add brief definition or description