Terms starting with “B”

A special purpose computer on a network where the computer is specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks.

A collection of paper ballots gathered as a group for tabulation and auditing.

A unique ID associated with a batch of ballots, used for labeling the batch and for identifying the batch in the ballot manifest.

• An electronic voting device that: • accepts stacks of hand-marked or BMD-produced paper ballots and automatically processes them until the stack is empty; • is usually used at an...

A separate power source designed to allow for continued voting in the even of a power failure. "The voting system shall be a battery back-up system that will, as a minimum, retain...

. The environment, factors, and conditions that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes the air, land, sea,...

The card has an embedded chip and other security features that could potentially provide a secure voter authentication mechanism for remote Internet voting in the future. The BC Se...

Bcrypt is a widely used, computationally intensive password-hashing function based on the Blowfish cipher , designed to securely store passwords by being deliberately slow to thwar...

A process through which a system or program sends a message announcing its presence online. This term is typically used in a cyber threat context to indicate a compromised system c...

The act of examining malware interactions within its operating environment including file systems, the registry (if on Windows), the network, as well as other processes and Operati...

Observing activities of users, information systems, and processes and measuring the activities against organizational policies and rule, baselines of normal activity, thresholds, a...

What an individual who has completed the specific training module is expected to be able to accomplish in terms of IT security-related job performance. (SP 800-16) (NISTIR)

the extent to which an individual practices several types of cybersecurity measures to avoid or attenuate the types of cyber threats that they are vulnerable to

A "quantitative point of reference to which the measured performance of a system or device may be compared." VVSG.

A non-hostile location protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security countermeasures.

A cross domain device or system with the capability to provide both the transmission and reception of information or data between two or more different security domains (e.g., betw...

A legislative body having two branches or chambers.

A legislature made up of two houses, usually known as an upper house and a lower house.

Taking place every other year. Federal elections take place biennially in even-numbered years.

A specified period of two years.

data sets which are too big to process and manage with commodity software tools in a timely way, and require bespoke processing capabilities to manage their volumes, speed of deliv...

The list of laws and regulations that determine which election materials need to be available in languages other than English.

Abbreviation for MANAGER. BALLOT IMAGE

Process of associating two related elements of information.