The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CCSP CBK, 2nd Edition

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. Then it uses the information dispersal algorithm (IDA) to split the blocks into m shares that are distributed to different cloud storage services (the same as in Secret Sharing Made Short [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 (XaaS)

XaaS refers to the growing diversity of services available ...