Terms starting with “E”

The management role that is responsible for assigning user identities to management and non-management roles.

An organization with a defined mission/goal and a defined boundary, using information systems to execute that mission, and with responsibility for managing its own risks and perfor...

A strategic information asset base that defines the mission, the information necessary to perform the mission, the technologies necessary for performing the mission, and the transi...

A cross domain solution provided as a system across an enterprise infrastructure, fully integrated to provide the ability to access or transfer information between two or more secu...

An organization that establishes, manages and maintains the overall infrastructure and security posture offering automated capabilities to users and applications within an enterpri...

The methods and processes used by an enterprise to manage risks to its mission and to establish the trust necessary for the enterprise to support shared missions. It involves the i...

A set of one or more computer applications and middleware systems hosted on computer hardware that provides standard information systems capabilities to end users and hosted missio...

A point-to-point cross domain solution (CDS) that is managed by an enterprise cross domain service (ECDS) provider that may be available to additional users within the enterprise w...

Access rights assigned to employees base on job title, department, or other established criteria.

Either a subject (an active element that operates on information or the system state) or an object (a passive element that contains or receives information). (SP 800-27) (NISTIR) A...

Entity-relationship diagram is a data modeling technique that creates a graphical representation of the entities, and the relationships between entities, within an information syst...

Deliberate planting of apparent flaws in an IS for the purpose of detecting attempted penetrations. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

A measure of the amount of uncertainty that an Attacker faces to determine the value of a secret. Entropy is usually stated in bits. (SP 800-63) (NISTIR)

Source: NIST SP 800-126 Rev 2

An envelope used in administering absentee voting. Identifiable information about the voter is written on the outside of the envelope. A secrecy envelope containing a

Aggregate of external procedures, conditions, and objects affecting the development, operation, and maintenance of an information system. (FIPS 200; CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

The physical, technical, and organizational setting in which an information system operates, including but not limited to: missions/business functions; mission/business processes;...

End of Life

A cryptographic key that is generated for each execution of a key establishment process and that meets other requirements of the key type (e.g., unique to each message or session)....

ELECTION QUALIFICATION CODE.

Source: NSA/CSS Manual Number 3-16 (COMSEC)

Process intended to render magnetically stored information irretrievable by normal means. Source: NIST SP 800-88 Rev 1

MANAGER. ELECTION REPORTING

Used in response messages. RequestRejection includes this class to describe the errors that caused the rejection. Attribute Multiplicity Type Attribute Description OtherError 0..1...