Dictionary of Information Security

Science makes progress through the process of hypothesis,

experiment, analysis, and description. Engineering builds on sci-

entific results.To clearly convey those results and establish a

common frame of reference requires clarity, precision, and

agreed-upon language. Mathematics provides one such system of

communication, but it doesn’t convey everything we might wish

to express. It is left to human language to express concepts and

relationships fundamental to our shared progress.

Computing is a discipline that has matured over the last half-

century as a new field of science and engineering.Within that

discipline, we have witnessed the emergence of new specializa-

tions, each with its own particular constructs, terms, ground

truths, formalisms, and challenges. ...