Terms starting with “C”

BRIBERY, COERCION, DISCHARGING EMPLOYEE, DISCLOSURE BY VOTER, DISTURBING ELECTORS, DISTURBING POLLING PLACE, ELECTIONEERING, FALSE INFORMATION IN REGISTERING AND VOTING, FALSE SWEA...

a class of malware designed specifically to automate cybercrime

A part, component or assembly, including software, is considered critical if its may FAILURE result in certain fatal defects in performance, such as faulty recording of a vote. VVS...

A component which is or contains information and communications technology (ICT), including hardware, software, and firmware, whether custom, commercial, or otherwise developed, an...

System and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the U.S. that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, nat...

critical infrastructure

Council established by DHS under 6 U.S.C. §451 to facilitate effective interaction and coordination of critical infrastructure activities among the Federal Government, the private...

A proposed strategy that will set programmatic and budgetary priorities for a five-year national risk management cycle.

A logical collection of assets, systems, or networks that provide a common function to the economy, government, or society; NIPP 2013 addresses 16 critical infrastructure sectors,...

Information technology; telecommunications; chemical; transportation systems, including mass transit, aviation, maritime, ground/surface, and rail and pipeline systems; emergency s...

Security-related information (e.g., secret and private cryptographic keys, and authentication data such as passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs)) whose disclosure or...

Security-related information (e.g., secret and private cryptographic keys, and authentication data such as passwords and Personal Identification Numbers [PINs]) whose disclosure or...

Proposed entities/programs that provide the U.S. government with the capacity to test the security of critical technologies and, when appropriate, assist in identifying vulnerabili...

A measure of the degree to which an organization depends on the information or information system for the success of a mission or of a business function. Source: NIST SP 800-60 Vol...

An end-to-end functional decomposition performed by systems engineers to identify mission critical functions and components. Includes identification of system missions, decompositi...

Refers to the (consequences of) incorrect behavior of a system. The more serious the expected direct and indirect effects of incorrect behavior, the higher the criticality level.

A type of acceptable mark on a paper or mark-sense ballot. See also CHECK MARK.

A certificate issued from a certificate authority (CA) that signs the public key of another CA not within its trust hierarchy that establishes a trust relationship between the two...

The act of manually and/or automatically accessing and/or transferring information between different security domains. Source: DoDI 8540.01

A list managed by the unified cross domain services management office (UCDSMO) that identifies CDSs that are available for deployment within the Department of Defense (DoD) and int...

The set of functions that enable the transfer of information between security domains in accordance with the policies of the security domains involved.

Applications/services that exist on and are capable of interacting across two or more different security domains.

A single web-site providing access to cross domain services.

Services that provide access and/or transfer of information between different security domains.