Information Security Management Principles, 4th Edition

GLOSSARY

Acceptable use: A policy used to identify what personal use of company resources is acceptable

Accountability: The attribute of having to answer for one’s actions

Accredited: Acknowledgement by an official body that an individual or entity has met predefined criteria

Adversary-in-the-middle attacks: When an attacker infiltrates a network so that they can extract network traffic and then use, replace or corrupt it in some way to achieve nefarious aims

Analysis: The detailed examination of the elements or structure of an entity

Anti-virus: Software designed to negate or destroy a computer virus

Assessment: An estimation of the nature or quality of an entity

Asset: Something that has a value to an organisation

Assurance: A positive ...