The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CCSP CBK

Appendix B Glossary

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All-or-Nothing-Transform with Reed-Solomon (AONT-RS)

Integrates the AONT and erasure coding. This method first encrypts and transforms the information and the encryption key into blocks in a way that the information cannot be recovered without using all the blocks, and then it uses the IDA to split the blocks into m shares that are distributed to different cloud storage services (the same as in SSMS).

Anonymization

The act of permanently and completely removing personal identifiers from data, such as converting personally identifiable information (PII) into aggregated data.

Anything-as-a-Service

Anything-as-a-service, or “XaaS,” refers to the growing diversity of services available over the Internet via cloud computing ...