Why a dictionary?
When I was allowed to join the august ranks of those facilitating
the (ISC)
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(International Information Systems Security
Certification Consortium) CISSP (Certified Information Systems
Security Professional) CBK (Common Body of Knowledge)
review seminar, one thing quickly became very clear: the des-
perate need for a dictionary. All fields of technology have their
own jargon.Those of us in security tend to be worse than those
in other fields, because we frequently take perfectly good words
or phrases and invest them with specialized meanings.
In fact, one of the CISSP study guides, the CISSP (Exam
Cram) by Mandy Andress, is essentially a glossary. It is in topical,
and not alphabetical, order, but is presented as a list of key terms
and phrases. ...