Appendix A. Glossary
THESE DEFINITIONS WILL GIVE YOU A BASIC understanding of the terms used throughout this book. As with many technical definitions, more information may be required to fully understand the concepts. A good place to find detailed definitions to these and other technical terms is at http://www.whatis.com.
- Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
-
A policy that the user agrees to follow before being allowed to access a network.
- access control list (ACL)
-
A table used by systems and systems software to define access rights.
- ActiveX
-
The object-oriented language from Microsoft used to create mobile code.
- air gap
-
A term used to ...
Get Writing Information Security Policies now with O’Reilly online learning.
O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers.