Terms starting with “H”

(HIE) A health information organization that brings together healthcare stakeholders within a defined geographic area and governs health information exchange among them for the pur...

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Cybersecurity Glossary

An opportunity to state one's case through a formal administrative process.

An individual who is authorized to apply a legal process, conduct hearings, resolve administrative disputes, facilitate negotiations between opposing parties, and issue legal decis...

The rules and series of actions that govern how hearings are administered.

Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002 to make sweeping reforms to the nation’s voting process . HAVA addresses improvements to voting systems and voter access that were identifie...

An act passed by the United States Congress in 2002 to reform the nation's voting processes and procedures. HAVA required improvements to voting systems and voter access following...

A federal statute, Public Law 107-252, now codified at 42 U.S.C. §15301ff, passed in the wake of the Florida voting disaster of 2000, that establishes the ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMI...

The Help America Vote Act, also known as HAVA, was enacted by Congress in 2002. HAVA establishes minimum standards for states to follow in several key aspects of administration of...

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) Guide discusses the minimum standards created by HAVA for states to follow in several key areas of election administration.

A program authorized under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to encourage student participation as poll workers or assistants, to foster student interest in the elections process, a...

A federally chartered nonprofit charitable corporation established under HAVA, at 42 U.S.C. §15526, to, among other objectives, to "mobilize secondary school students (including st...

A "a small mark made by resting a pen or pencil on the ballot." Iowa Admin. Code §721- 26.1(49). Similarly, VVSG. Hesitation marks may be difficult to distinguish from votes, parti...

An electoral district in which, either by design or as a result of the operation of other criteria for boundary delimitation, the electorate manifests social, ethnic, religious or...

An environment consisting of multiple types of systems.

A printing imperfection resulting from dirt on the press or foreign matter in the paper.

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

An enclave boundary protection device that controls access between a local area network that an enterprise system has a requirement to protect, and an external network that is outs...

Device that provides networking, traffic protection, and management features that provide information assurance (IA) services in an IPv4/IPv6 network. Source: CNSSP No. 19

Suite of documents containing the traffic protection, networking, and interoperability functional requirements necessary to ensure the interoperability of HAIPE compliant devices....

A failover feature to ensure availability during device or component interruptions. (SP 800-113) (NISTIR)

The loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability that could be expected to have a severe or catastrophic adverse effect on organizational operations, organizational assets,...

A geographical unit for the local administration of secondary schools. It is a special-purpose government entity with elected board members.

An information system in which at least one security objective (i.e., confidentiality, integrity, or availability) is assigned a FIPS PUB 199 potential impact value of high. Note:...