https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/ 2026-07-18T18:12:27-0400 https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/ https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-07-14T16:20:23-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:c2&rev=1626294023&do=diff Command and control (C2) Return to Glossary Command and control (C2) is a “set of organizational and technical attributes and processes ... [that] employs human, physical, and information resources to solve problems and accomplish missions” to achieve the goals of an organization or enterprise. text/html 2021-07-14T16:20:23-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cat5&rev=1626294023&do=diff Category 5 (Cat-5) Return to Glossary Category 5 (Cat-5) is network cabling that consists of four twisted pairs of copper wire terminated by RJ45 connectors. Cat-5 cabling supports frequencies up to 100 MHz and speeds up to 1000 Mbps. It can be used for ATM, token ring, 1000Base-T, 100Base-T, and 10Base-Tnetworking. text/html 2021-07-14T16:20:23-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cat6&rev=1626294023&do=diff Category 6 (Cat-6) Return to Glossary Category 6 (Cat-6) network cabling is used as the cabling infrastructure for 10BASE-T (Ethernet), 100BASE-TX (Fast Ethernet), 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE) and 10GBASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet, or 10 GbE) networks. The Cat 6 standard provides performance of up to 250 text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:17-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cat7&rev=1626294437&do=diff Category 7 (Cat-7) Return to Glossary Category 7 (Cat-7) network cabling is used as a cabling infrastructure for 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE) and 10GBASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet, or 10 GbE) networks. The Cat 7 standard provides performance of up to 600 MHz (1000 MHz for the Cat-7a, or Augmented Category 7 standard) and can be used up to a maximum length of 100 meters. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:17-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cat8&rev=1626294437&do=diff Category 8 (Cat-8) Return to Glossary Category 8 (Cat-8) Ethernet cables different than previous versions because they support a frequency of 2 GHz. Cat-8 is limited to a 30-meter 2-connector channel and also require shielding around the wire structures. Cat-8 can support speeds of 25 Gbps or in some cases 40 Gbps. The looks and physical appearance of cat8 are similar to the previous cables and can be terminated with RJ-45 or non-RJ-45 connections. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:17-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cisc&rev=1626294437&do=diff Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) Return to Glossary Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) is a computer in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store) or are capable of multi-step operations or addressing modes within single instructions. The term was retroactively coined in contrast to text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:17-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:claim&rev=1626294437&do=diff Claim Return to Glossary A Claim is a statement asserting some characteristic, property, or behavior of the software or system that can be evaluated for truthfulness, is demonstrable, and is supported by arguments based on objective evidence. A claim may be further decomposed into text/html 2021-07-14T15:55:04-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:client-server&rev=1626292504&do=diff Client-Server The Client-Server model helped developers address the scalability issues of the Point-to-Point communication model. Client-server networks designate one special server node that connects simultaneously to many client nodes, as illustrated below. Client-server is a “many-to-one” communications architecture. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:24-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cmmi&rev=1626294444&do=diff Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Return to Glossary Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) is a capability improvement model that can be adapted to solve any performance issue at any level of the organization in any industry. The Model provides guidelines and recommendations for helping your organization diagnose problems and improve performance. Used by over 10,000 organizations from more than 106 countries all over the world, CMMI helps you to identify and achieve measur… text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:24-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cntrgrid&rev=1626294444&do=diff Central Microgrid Return to Glossary Central Microgrid locate all the generators and power is fanned out to all the structures (i.e., tents) through distribution network of cables. It combines the first positive characteristics of the Spot Generation and Consolidated Generation providing some backup power generation capability. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:24-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:codebase&rev=1626294444&do=diff Codebase Return to Glossary Codebase refers to the human-written programming code specifically made for a program. Codebase may be stored in various source code repositories and manipulated by various code editors. It generally does not include generic library files. Codebase is the complete source code required to maintain application functionality, or the implementation of that source code. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:24-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:coi&rev=1626294444&do=diff Community of Interest (CoI) Return to Glossary Community of Interest (CoI) is a collaborative group of users who exchange information in pursuit of their shared goals, interests, missions, or business processes, and who therefore must have a shared vocabulary for the information they exchange. The group exchanges information within and between systems to include security domains. text/html 2021-07-14T16:27:24-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:com&rev=1626294444&do=diff Component Object Model (COM) Return to Glossary Component Object Model (COM) is a simple Microsoft specification method that defines a binary standard for exchanging code between two systems, regardless of the OS or programming language. COM provides access to distributed client object services and is used to share cross-platform binary code and text/html 2021-07-14T15:53:23-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:communications_model&rev=1626292403&do=diff Communications Model The Communications Model underlying the network middleware is the most important factor in how applications communicate. The communications model impacts the performance, the ease to accomplish different communication transactions, the nature of detecting errors, and the robustness to different error conditions. Unfortunately, there is no “one size fits all” approach to text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:02-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:compiler&rev=1626295022&do=diff Compiler Return to Glossary A Compiler is a software program that transforms high-level source code that is written by a developer in a high-level programming language into a low level object code (binary code) in machine language, which can be understood by the processor. The process of converting high-level programming into machine language is known as compilation. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:02-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:computerplaform&rev=1626295022&do=diff Computing Platform Return to Glossary A Computing Platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the Operating System (OS), even a web browser and associated application programming interfaces, or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed with it. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an text/html 2021-07-14T15:56:54-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:condition&rev=1626292614&do=diff Condition An object attached to a WaitSet which allows a thread to block until one or more of the attached condition objects evaluates to true or until the timeout occurs. Each Condition has a trigger_value that can be true or false and is set by the Data Distribution Service. Conditions can be of type: text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:25-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:confidentiality&rev=1626295045&do=diff Confidentiality Return to Glossary See 2.2.4.1 Confidentiality Confidentiality is the degree to which a product or system ensures that data are accessible only to those authorized to have access. Integrity - Degree to which a system, product or component prevents unauthorized access to, or modification of, computer programs or data. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:25-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:consgen&rev=1626295045&do=diff Consolidated Generation Return to Glossary Consolidate Generation attempts to improve on the inefficiency of Spot Generation, by running distribution cables to multiple structures (such as tents). It improves the efficiency by better matching the load to the source. However, that optimization ends up being more complicated, as a result, it is not widely used. text/html 2021-07-17T15:38:02-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:container&rev=1626550682&do=diff Container Return to Glossary A Container is a class, a data structure, or an Abstract Data Type (ADT) whose instances are collections of other objects. In other words, they store objects in an organized way that follows specific access rules. The size of the container depends on the number of objects (elements) it contains. Underlying (inherited) implementations of various container types may vary in size and complexity, and provide flexibility in choosing the right implementation for any gi… text/html 2021-07-14T16:17:10-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:control_level&rev=1626293830&do=diff Control Level Return to Glossary The Control Level is the second level up in the Automation Pyramid. It uses the the control devices to “run” the devices in the Field Level. The Control Devices make decisions based on information provided by sensors, switches, and other input devices to complete the programmed task. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:25-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:corba&rev=1626295045&do=diff Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Return to Glossary The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a specification developed by the Object Management Group® (OMG). CORBA describes a messaging mechanism by which objects distributed over a network can communicate with each other irrespective of the platform and language used to develop those objects. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:03-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cots&rev=1626295023&do=diff Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Return to Glossary Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) is an adjective that describes software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale to the general public. For example, Microsoft Office is a COTS product that is a packaged software solution for businesses. COTS products are designed to be implemented easily into existing systems without the need for customization. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:03-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:cpu&rev=1626295023&do=diff Central Processing Unit (CPU) Return to Glossary Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the primary component of a computer that processes instructions. It runs the operating system and applications, constantly receiving input from the user or active software programs. It processes the data and produces output, which may stored by an application or displayed on the screen. text/html 2021-07-14T16:37:03-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:critinfra&rev=1626295023&do=diff Critical Infrastructure Sectors Return to Glossary There are 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof. Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national p… text/html 2021-07-21T09:21:47-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php?id=ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:c:start&rev=1626873707&do=diff Glossary C Terms Return to Glossary Note: You can add new terms beginning with 'C' here List of Words Return to Top * Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) * Category 5 (Cat-5) * Category 6 (Cat-6) * Category 7 (Cat-7) * Category 8 (Cat-8) * Central Microgrid * Central Processing Unit (CPU) * Claim * Client-Server * Codebase * Command and control (C2) * Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) * Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) * Communications Model * Communi…