Terms starting with “I”

Individual assigned responsibility for conducting information system security engineering activities. (SP 800-37; CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

(ISSE) - Process of capturing and refining information protection requirements to ensure their integration into information systems acquisition and information systems development...

Process that captures and refines information security requirements and ensures their integration into information technology component products and information systems through pur...

Modification of any fielded hardware, firmware, software, or portion thereof, under NSA configuration control. There are three classes of modifications: mandatory (to include human...

Individual responsible for the information assurance of a program, organization, system, or enclave.

Individual assigned responsibility for maintaining the appropriate operational security posture for an information system or program. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR) Individual assigned resp...

In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Oversees the information assurance program of an information system in or outside the network environment; may include pro...

Item (chip, module, assembly, or equipment), technique, or service that performs or relates to information systems security. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that processes, transmits, receives, or interchanges data or information.

Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching...

See information system component.

A specific category of information (e.g., privacy, medical, proprietary, financial, investigative, contractor sensitive, security management), defined by an organization or in some...

A qualitative measure of the importance of the information based upon factors such as the level of robustness of the information assurance (IA) controls allocated to the protection...

Information Security

Signals sent by infrared light from one device to another device. This is how most television remote controls function; the remote sends infrared (a/k/a IR) signals to the televisi...

The framework of interdependent networks and systems comprising identifiable industries, institutions (including people and procedures), and distribution capabilities that provide...

A software application of Hart InterCivic that converts external data for importation into BOSS.

See security control inheritance.

The process of tabulating ballots before any RECOUNT. 8 N.C. Admin. Code §09.0107(a). Cf. RECOUNT. SECOND

The preliminary counting of some or all ballots cast in a jurisdiction with results subject to final count; typically conducted at the end of general voting day; does not typically...

"All steps taken to prepare for tabulation, except for the reading of ballots ABSENTEE BALLOTS by an electronic vote tallying system. Initial processing includes, but is not limite...

A preliminary to which a candidate is entitled by law if certain grounds are present. RECOUNT Texas Elec. Code §212.022. In Texas, no ground is required to obtain an initial recoun...

The "time taken from when the voter performs some detectible action (such as pressing a button) to when the voting system begins responding in some obvious way (such as an audible...

A vector used in defining the starting point of an encryption process within a cryptographic algorithm. (FIPS 140-2) (NISTIR)