Cyber Security Glossary

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

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  • "A value corresponding to an outcome."
  • "Under label shift, the label distribution p(y) might change but the class-conditional distributions p(x|y) do not. ... We work with the label shift assumption, i.e., ps(x|y) = pt(x|y)"
  • Usually refers to a network of computers in a single building or other discrete location.
  • "A language model is an approximative description that captures patterns and regularities present in natural language and is used for making assumptions on previously unseen language fragments."
  • "a class of language models that use deep-learning algorithms and are trained on extremely large textual datasets that can be multiple terabytes in size. LLMs can be classed into two types: generative or discriminatory. Generative LLMs are models that output text, such as the answer to a(...)
  • "A procedure in artificial intelligence by which an artificial intelligence program improves its performance by gaining knowledge."
  • "The principle that a security architecture should be designed so that each entity is granted the minimum system resources and authorizations that the entity needs to perform its function."
  • Legacy Data is information in the development of which an organization may have invested significant resources and which has retained its importance, but which has been created or stored by the use of software and/or hardware that has been rendered outmoded or obsolete.
  • Definition: In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Provides legally sound advice and recommendations to leadership and staff on a variety of relevant topics within the pertinent subject domain; advocates legal and policy changes and makes a case on behalf of client via a(...)
  • A legal hold is a communication issued as a result of current or anticipated litigation, audit, government investigation or other such matter that suspends the normal disposition or processing of records. The specific communication to business or IT organizations may also be called a “hold,”(...)
  • "the process of grouping together the different inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item."
  • "[a supervised learning algorithm that uses] a simple formula to find a best-fit line through a set of data points."
  • "Mainly focus on explanation of individual data instances. Generates one explanation map g per data x in X."
  • "Creation of a national or specific regional version of a product."
  • "(logistic equation) The continuous version of the logistic model is described by the differential equation (dN)/(dt)=(rN(K-N))/K, (1) where r is the Malthusian parameter (rate of maximum population growth) and K is the so-called carrying capacity (i.e., the maximum sustainable population).(...)