Terms starting with “F”

Function as a Service

Federal Advisory Committee Act

Joining allows Facebook users who share common interests to be connected and communicate in one place

For business accounts and public figures to create an online presence; offers advertising features

COMSEC facility located in an immobile structure or aboard a ship. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

A mode of termination of system functions that prevents damage to specified system resources and system entities (i.e., specified data, property, and life) when a failure occurs or...

A mode of termination of system functions that prevents loss of secure state when a failure occurs or is detected in the system (but the failure still might cause damage to some sy...

Selective termination of affected, non-essential system functions when a failure occurs or is detected in the system. See fail safe and fail secure for comparison. Source: IETF RFC...

A ballot cast by a voter who was not on the list of eligible voters, whose information was incomplete or not accurate, or who had already received a ballot in the mail and was allo...

A voter who was not on the list of eligible voters, whose information was incomplete or not accurate, or who had already received a ballot in the mail but was allowed to vote. Fail...

A method under the "by which a registered voter who has changed his address within NVRA the same jurisdiction may vote at any polling place within that jurisdiction, even if his na...

The capability to switch over automatically (typically without human intervention or warning) to a redundant or standby information system upon the failure or abnormal termination...

A ballot for use in VOTING. "There must be provided for each voting place a FAIL-SAFE number of failsafe ballots, or ballots containing only the races for federal, statewide, count...

An "event that results in (a) loss of one or more functions, (b) degradation of performance such that the device is unable to perform its intended function for longer than 10 secon...

Type of incident in which unauthorized access to data results from hardware or software failure.

Methodology used to detect imminent hardware or software failure and provide fail safe or fail soft recovery.

The "ratio of the number of that occur to the volume of data processed. ... Failures FAILURES may be divided, for example, into user-serviceable and non-user-serviceable categories...

A "method by which a registered voter who has changed his address within the same jurisdiction may vote at any polling place within that jurisdiction, even if his name is not on th...

Proportion of verification transactions with wrongful claims of identity that are incorrectly confirmed. Source: ISO/IEC 19795-1:2006

When a biometric system incorrectly identifies a biometric subject or incorrectly authenticates a biometric subject against a claimed identity. Source: DoD Biometrics Enterprise Ar...

The probability that a biometric system will incorrectly identify an individual or will fail to reject an impostor. The rate given normally assumes passive impostor attempts. SOURC...

A covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual sour...

A crime defined in HAVA. "Any individual who knowingly commits fraud or knowingly makes a false statement with respect to the naturalization, citizenry, or alien registry of such i...

"A on a ballot that meets the legal definition of an but that is, on MARK ACCEPTABBLE MARK some occasion, not detected by a vote tabulating machine as a vote. False negative marks...