G
gap analysis examination of discrepancies between secu-
rity requirements and controls or safeguards in place
garbage collection particular class of strategies for
dynamically but transparently reallocating computer
memory in running applications. One such strategy
involves periodically scanning all the data in
memory: locations with useless data items are then
made available so the memory they occupy can be
recycled and used for another purpose. If the data is
not cleared from these locations before reallocation,
the information may be made available to processes
or users despite normal access restrictions.
General Public Virus pejorative or ironic name for some
versions of the GNU (Gnu’s Not UNIX) project
copyleft or General Public License (GPL),