Terms starting with “O”

Ongoing monitoring sufficient to ensure and assure effectiveness of security controls related to systems, networks, and cyberspace, by assessing security control implementation and...

Limited maintenance performed by a user organization. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Entity within the public key infrastructure (PKI) that authenticates the identity and the organizational affiliation of the users.

An organizational employee or an individual the organization deems to have equivalent status of an employee (e.g., contractor, guest researcher, individual detailed from another or...

(opscan) A preprinted mark on an optical scan ballot that enables the scanner to determine the ballot's orientation.

A master document with information about measures, initiatives, referendums, or candidates used to gather signatures from registered voters.

optical scanner

One of a class of emergency situations that may result in the postponement of an election. An "occurrence caused by machines or people, such as fire, hazardous substance or nuclear...

sources were also consulted.

"Communication through some means other than the primary channel under discussion. If the primary communication channel is the Internet, then out-of-band channel might be via U.S....

A mechanism by which voters who are permanently or temporarily absent from a country are enabled to case a vote. See External voting . See also Remote voting .

A voting place for a precinct that is located outside that precinct. Such a place may be provided if there is no suitable place within the precinct. N.C. Gen. Stat. §163-130.1.

To be outside the physical boundaries of a particular state.

A voter who is out of his state of domicile but within the territorial limits of the United States. See, e.g., Wash. Rev. Code §29A.04.103.

An official envelope used to transport absentee and mailed ballots and protects voter privacy.

While this is not likely to be an issues of concern to most jurisdictions, Texas, home to the Johnson Space Center, specifically provides that astronauts may vote from outer space...

An unauthorized entity outside the security domain that has the potential to harm an information system through destruction, disclosure, modification of data, and/or denial of serv...

During ballot scanning, to direct some ballots into a separate bin, apart from the main stack of scanned ballots.

(opscan) An elliptical area on an optical scan ballot for the voter to mark to indicate a selection. Also "A mark that touches the oval on an optical scan ballot CANDIDATE OVAL. sh...

(opscan) The location of an on a ballot. OVAL

(opscan) Not the width of the per se, but the thickness of the oval's boundary line. OVAL

Providing electronic key via over-the-air rekeying, over-the-air key transfer, or cooperative key generation. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Providing electronic key via over-the-air rekeying, over-the-air key transfer, or cooperative key generation.

Electronically distributing key without changing traffic encryption key used on the secured communications path over which the transfer is accomplished. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)