Terms starting with “M”

See Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. Mimicking - See Spoofing.

A measure of the difficulty that an Attacker has to guess the most commonly chosen password used in a system. (SP 800-63) (NISTIR)

Cryptography that can be implemented on devices with very limited memory and computing capabilities, such as RFID tags. (SP 800-98) (NISTIR)

The lowest level of quality or achievement that is acceptable.

The age established by law that a person must attain before they become eligible to vote in a public election.

An application, other than a major application, that requires attention to security due to the risk and magnitude of harm resulting from the loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to...

An application, other than a major application, that requires attention to security due to the risk and magnitude of harm resulting from the loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to...

A political party that does not meet the requirements to be recognized as a major party, but otherwise is recognized typically because its candidates have received a certain percen...

A "political organization whose candidate for any one (1) of the offices of the United States house of representatives, governor or secretary of state, received not less than two p...

"[T]he political party whose members hold the second largest number of seats in the combined houses of the general assembly." Tenn. Code §2-1-104(12). That "political party whose c...

In general, replicating copies of ballots to guard against machine or memory failure. "Keeping two or more memory systems or computers identical at all times, so that if one fails...

(opscan) The failure of an optical scanner to accept a physical BALLOT. A misfeed can be caused by misadjustment of the scanner or a defect in the itself (such as a crumpled BALLOT...

(opscan) The "ratio of the misfeed total to the total volume." VVSG. The BALLOT 2007 acceptable misfeed rate is capped at 1 in 500.

Information that is false but not created or shared with the intention of causing harm

"A on a ballot that is misinterpreted by a vote tabulating machine; this term includes MARK both and MARKS." Jones. FALSE POSITIVE FALSE NEGATIVE

An error, mistake, omission, or intentional act that results in a voter's intent not counting towards the final election result.

A technique used to disguise a file's content by changing the file's name to something innocuous or altering its extension to a different type of file, forcing the examiner to iden...

A ballot that causes a ballot reader to produce an error indication. A ballot that is misread twice is considered a in some jurisdictions. N.M. Admin Code §1.10.12.14. SPOILED BALL...

(MAC) A Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) term primarily used to determine the requirements for availability and integrit...

A Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) term primarily used to determine the requirements for availability and integrit...

Any telecommunications or information system that is defined as a national security system (Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002) or processes any informatio...

A system component or subsystem that delivers mission critical functionality to a system or that may, by virtue of system design, introduce vulnerability to mission critical functi...

Any system function, the compromise of which would degrade the effectiveness of that system in achieving the core mission for which it was designed. Source: CNSSD No. 505

Elements of organizations describing mission areas, common/shared business services, and organization-wide services. Mission/business segments can be identified with one or more in...