Terms starting with “D”

A tool, or set of tools, used to decrypt encrypted files. Either for recovery or anti-ransomware purposes.

A telephone line connected to a single telephone device or modem and used only for communication of election information. VVSG.

Information systems security mode of operation wherein each user, with direct or indirect access to the system, its peripherals, remote terminals, or remote hosts, has all of the f...

A Chinese-government-sponsored threat group

A digital picture or video that has been maliciously edited using an algorithm in a way that makes the video appear authentic.

Defense Readiness Condition

A ballot containing marks ultimately not desired by the voter, usually the result of an error or change of mind. Virtually the equivalent of BALLOT. See Ky. Rev. Stat. 117.385(1)....

Classification reflecting the highest classification being processed in an information system. Default classification is included in the caution statement affixed to an object.

A ballot not prepared in accordance with the election law. Me. Rev. Stat. §21-A-696.3. A ballot in which there is a discrepancy between the printed list of candidates and the offic...

The proactive observing, pursuing, and countering of adversary operations and imposing of costs in day-to-day competition to disrupt and defeat ongoing malicious adversary cyber ca...

"[T]hat person whose election or qualification is contested or those persons receiving an equal or larger number of votes, other than the CONTESTANT, when the body canvassing the r...

A planned, systematic set of multi-disciplinary activities that seek to identify, manage, and reduce risk of exploitable vulnerabilities at every stage of the system, network, or s...

Information Security strategy integrating people, technology, and operations capabilities to establish variable barriers across multiple layers and missions of the organization. So...

A coordinated set of actions across the U.S. government, utilizing any or all available instruments of U.S. national power, to respond to an adversary cyber campaign, mitigate its...

Missions to preserve the ability to utilize one's own network capabilities and protect data, computers, cyberspace-enabled devices, and other designated systems by defeating ongoin...

Missions to preserve the ability to utilize one's own network capabilities and protect data, computers, cyberspace-enabled devices, and other designated systems by defeating ongoin...

Deliberate, authorized defensive measures or activities taken outside of the defended network to protect and defend Department of Defense (DoD) cyberspace capabilities or other des...

Passive and active cyberspace operations intended to preserve the ability to utilize friendly cyberspace capabilities and protect data, networks, net-centric capabilities, and othe...

To reduce the magnetic flux to virtual zero by applying a reverse magnetizing field. Also called demagnetizing. Source: NIST SP 800-88 Rev 1

"Each voter shall vote without undue delay." Mo. Rev. Stat. §115.441.

An authorized person sent to represent others, in particular an elective representative.

A held for the purpose of choosing DELEGATES. PRIMARY ELECTION

INFOSEC program in which the Director, NSA, delegates, on a caseby-case basis, the development and/or production of an entire telecommunications product, including the INFOSEC port...

A file that has been logically, but not necessarily physically, erased from the operating system, perhaps to eliminate potentially incriminating evidence. Deleting files does not a...