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

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• Key Definition: The numerical value used to control cryptographic operations, such as decryption, encryption, signature generation, or signature verification. Related Term(s): private key, public key, secret key, symmetric key
• Key Pair Definition: Two mathematically related keys having the property that one key can be used to encrypt a message that can only be decrypted using the other key.Related Term(s): private key, public key
• Key Resource Definition: A publicly or privately controlled asset necessary to sustain continuity of government and/or economic operations, or an asset that is of great historical significance.Related Term(s): critical infrastructure
• Keylogger Definition: Software or hardware that tracks keystrokes and keyboard events, usually surreptitiously / secretly, to monitor actions by the user of an information system.Related Term(s): spyware
• Keyword Search A search for documents containing one or more words that are specified by a user. 
• kill switch"a form of safety mechanism used to completely shut off a device in case of an emergency situation where it cannot be shut off using the normal process or if immediate shut off is required."
• Kilobyte (K) One thousand bytes of data is 1K of data.
• knowledge"The sum of all information derived from diagnostic, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics embedded in or available to or from a cognitive computing system."
• Knowledge Management Definition: In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Manages and administers processes and tools that enable the organization to identify, document, and access intellectual capital and information content.