Terms starting with “T”

An election for tribal government pursuant to 25 C.F.R. §81.1(s).

The land within the jurisdiction of a federally recognized Indian tribes for which the United States government has a trust responsibility to a Native American tribe or a member of...

1) insider threat A set of logic statements to be applied to a data stream that produces an alert when an anomalous incident or behavior occurs Source - CNSSD No. 504 (2014) 2) An...

An approved cryptographic algorithm as required by FIPS PUB 140-2. TDEA specifies both the DEA cryptographic engine employed by TDEA and the TDEA algorithm itself. Source: NIST SP...

An implementation of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm that uses three passes of the DES algorithm instead of one as used in ordinary DES applications. Triple DES provid...

An implementation of the data encryption standard (DES) algorithm that uses three passes of the DES algorithm instead of one as used in ordinary DES applications. Triple DES provid...

a type of malware that conceals its true content to fool a user into thinking it's a harmless file

A computer program that appears to have a useful function, but also has a hidden and potentially malicious function that evades security mechanisms, sometimes by exploiting legitim...

Trojan, Trojan Horse

To convert into a Trojan

A person or group of people that invites discord on the internet by starting arguments or posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the de...

An organization whose members or employees engage in online behavior that is meant to disrupt, distract, cause conflict, and influence conversations/behavior for nefarious purposes

An established point of trust (usually based on the authority of some person, office, or organization) from which an entity begins the validation of an authorized process or author...

Collection of trusted certificates used by Relying Parties to authenticate other certificates. Source: NIST SP 800-32

Entity authorized to act as a representative of an agency in confirming Subscriber identification during the registration process. Trusted Agents do not have automated interfaces w...

1. An individual explicitly aligned with one or more registration authority (RA) officers who has been delegated the authority to perform a portion of the RA functions. A trusted a...

A witnessed software build where source code is converted into machine readable binary instructions (executable code) in a manner providing security measures which help ensure that...

A certificate that is trusted by the relying party on the basis of secure and authenticated delivery. The public keys included in trusted certificates are used to start certificati...

A channel where the endpoints are known and data integrity is protected in transit. Depending on the communications protocol used, data privacy may be protected in transit. Example...

A system that has the necessary security functions and assurance that the security policy will be enforced and that can process a range of information sensitivities (i.e. classifie...

Totality of protection mechanisms within a computer system, including hardware, firmware, and software, the combination responsible for enforcing a security policy.

Method for distributing trusted computing base (TCB) hardware, software, and firmware components that protects the TCB from modification during distribution. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Facility that produces integrated circuits with a higher level of integrity assurance.

Identification method used in information system networks whereby the sending host can verify an authorized user on its system is attempting a connection to another host. The sendi...