Terms starting with “U”

Automatic or manual cryptographic process that irreversibly modifies the state of a COMSEC key. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Transfer data from a smaller computer or device to a larger computer.

One of the two chambers in a bicameral legislature, often seen either as containing `the representatives of regions/federal states' or as `a chamber of review'. The less powerful c...

UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY

to provide someone, such as an employee, with more advanced skills through additional education and training

(ES&S, opscan) A component of certain models of ES&S optical scanners used to adjust the guide arm that holds ballots in place as the input hopper rises while ballots are being rea...

Uniform Resource Locator

United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team

A partnership between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the public and private sectors, established to protect the nation's internet infrastructure. US-CERT coordinates...

The "effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular environment." ISO 9421. Usability in the co...

An objective, performance-based measure of the of a voting system. The USABILITY 2007 define five such benchmarks. See VVSG AVERAGE VOTER CONFIDENCE, AVERAGE VOTING SESSION TIME, P...

Testing which "encompasses a range of methods that examine how users in the target audience actually interact with a system, in contrast to analytic techniques such as usability in...

universal serial bus

United States Commission on Civil Rights

U.S. Coast Guard

United States Conference of Mayors

Department of Agriculture

A naive person who is persuaded by a group (usually through deception) to further its political agenda without fully comprehending the goal or its ramifications

1. Individual, or (system) process acting on behalf of an individual, authorized to access an information system. Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4 2. An individual who is required to u...

The technical capability to observe and record the actions and activities of an individual, at any time, on any device accessing U.S. Government information in order to detect insi...

"Electronic or printed material that provides information for the election officials or voters chief election officials of each county and municipality responsible for preparation...

Unique symbol or character string used by an information system to identify a specific user.

A function in the life cycle of keying material; the process whereby a user initializes its cryptographic application (e.g., installing and initializing software and hardware). (SP...

A "list of the chief election officials of each county and municipality responsible for preparation of a program to be used with an electronic voting system or for administration o...