Dictionary of Information Security

acceptable level of protection for data. Synonymous

with procedural security. More commonly referred to

as administrative controls.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) standard devel-

oped by the United States National Institute of

Standards and Technology to succeed DES. Intended

to specify an unclassified, publicly disclosed, sym-

metric encryption algorithm, available royalty-free

worldwide.

adversary entity that attacks, or is a threat to, a system

adware while not necessarily malware, adware is considered

to go beyond the reasonable advertising one might

expect from freeware or shareware.Typically, a separate

program that is installed at the same time as a share-

ware or similar program, adware will usually con-

tinue to generate advertising even when ...