Cyber Security Glossary

Find definitions for IT security and compliance in our online glossary of key terms, acronyms, and vocabulary.

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  • "Fitting is the process of verifying whether the data item value is in the previously specified interval."
  • Once the standard and now an increasingly rare storage medium consisting of a thin magnetic film disk housed in a protective sleeve. 
  • "Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the project's future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. The information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance, and includes information that could impact the project(...)
  • The internal structure of a file, which defines the way it is stored and used. Specific applications may define unique formats for their data (i.e., “MS Word document file format”). Many files may only be viewed or printed using their originating application or an application designed to work(...)
  • "a rule of thumb under which [federal enforcement agencies] will generally consider a selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less than four-fifths (4/5ths) or eighty percent (80%) of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate as a substantially(...)
  • Fragmented data is live data that has been broken up and stored in various locations on a single hard drive or disk.
  • "Monitoring the behavior of populations of users in order to estimate, detect, or avoid undesirable behavior."
  • An Internet protocol that enables you to transfer files between computers on the Internet. 
  • "Accomplishes its assigned mission, within a defined scope, without human intervention while adapting to operational and environmental conditions"