DIDO Wiki dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c

Certificate Authority (CA)

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Certificate Authority (CA) Return to Glossary A Certificate Authority (CA) is a trusted entity that manages and issues security certificates and public keys that are used for secure communication in a public network. The CA is part of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) along with the Registration Authority (RA) who verifies the information provided by a requester of a

Cable Subscriber Protection

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Cable Subscriber Protection Return to Glossary Cable Subscriber Protection 47 U.S. Code § 551 provides access to all Personal Identifiable Information (PII) regarding that subscriber which is collected and maintained by a cable operator. Such information shall be made available to the subscriber at reasonable times and at a convenient place designated by such cable operator. A cable subscriber shall be provided reasonable opportunity to correct any error in such information.

Cardano

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-10T21:50:36-0400

Cardano Return to Glossary Cardano is a Public Network DIDO Platform. It is Open Source Software (OSS) and a Decentralized Application, using a Proof of Stake (PoS) Consensus Algorithm. It can facilitate Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Transactions with its internal Cryptocurrency, ADA. Cardano was founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. The development of the project is overseen and supervised by the Cardano Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland. It is the largest cryptocurrency to u…

Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)

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Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Return to Glossary The Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) are a set of 19 standards and rules promulgated by the U.S. government to be used in establishing costs on negotiated procurements. CAS differs from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) because the FAR applies to most contractors, while CAS applies primarily to the larger ones.

Category 5 (Cat-5)

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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.

Category 6 (Cat-6)

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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

Category 7 (Cat-7)

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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.

Category 8 (Cat-8)

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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.

China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-02T18:46:25-0400

China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Return to Glossary The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) is an agency of the People's Republic of China (PRC) authorized by the State Council to regulate the banking sector of the PRC except the territories of Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are special administrative regions.

California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCCRA)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-30T20:51:48-0400

California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCCRA) Return to Glossary The California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCCRA) was passed in 1975 as the state's version of the U.S. federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. The act regulates consumer credit reporting agencies as well as any users of credit reports. The act also provides a narrower definition of

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Return to Glossary California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information that businesses collect about them and the CCPA regulations provide guidance on how to implement the law. This landmark law secures new privacy rights for California consumers, including:

Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act

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Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act Return to Glossary The Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act was passed in 2007 as an amendment to the FCRA. The act required that account numbers printed on receipts have to be shortened to five digits in order to protect consumer privacy

Customer Due Diligence

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-31T17:58:23-0400

Customer Due Diligence Return to Glossary Customer Due Diligence is integral to the KYC process, for example by ensuring the information a potential customer provides is accurate and legitimate. But it is also a constant process, extending to customers old and new, and their transactions.

Central Ledger

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Central Ledger Return to Glossary Central Ledger is a ledger maintained by a central agency. Source:

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Return to Glossary The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a regulatory agency charged with overseeing financial products and services that are offered to consumers. The CFPB is divided into several units—research, community affairs, consumer complaints, the Office of Fair Lending, and the Office of Financial Opportunity. These units work together to protect and educate consumers about the various types of financial products and services…

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Return to Glossary The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent federal agency that regulates the derivatives markets, including futures contracts, options, and swaps, in the United States. Its goals include the promotion of competitive and efficient markets and the protection of investors against manipulation, abusive trade practices, and fraud. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act established the CFTC in 1974.

Chain Linking

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Chain Linking Return to Glossary Chain Linking is the process of connecting two blockchains with each other, thus allowing transactions between the chains to take place. This will allow blockchains like Bitcoin to communicate with other sidechains, allowing the exchange of assets between them.

Charge Card

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Charge Card Return to Glossary A Charge Card is a type of electronic payment card that charges no interest but requires that you pay the statement balance in full, usually monthly. Charge cards are offered by a limited number of issuers. They have an uncapped spending limit with generous reward benefits for the cardholder, but typically charge a high annual fee.

Charter

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Charter Return to Glossary A Charter is a legal document that creates for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Frequently called articles of incorporation, a charter brings the organization into existence as a legal entity. Charters must be filed with an approval authority such as the secretary of state for the state where the organization is located.

Checksum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T09:33:23-0400

Checksum Return to Glossary A Checksum is a value that represents the number of bits in a transmission message and is used by IT professionals to detect high-level errors within data transmissions. Prior to transmission, every piece of data or file can be assigned a

Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA Triad)

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Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA Triad) Return to Glossary Confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA triad) is a model designed to guide policies for information security within an organization. The model is also sometimes referred to as the AIC triad

Competition In Contracting Act (CICA)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-26T18:17:12-0400

Competition In Contracting Act (CICA) Return to Glossary The Competition In Contracting Act (CICA) is a policy established by Congress in 1984 to encourage competition for government contracts. The idea behind the policy is that the increased competition will result in improved savings to the government through more competitive pricing. The Act applies to all solicitations for bids issued after April 1, 1985.

Common Intermediate Language (CIL)

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Common Intermediate Language (CIL) Return to Glossary Common Intermediate Language (CIL), formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Intermediate Language (IL),[1] is the intermediate language binary instruction set defined within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification.[2] CIL instructions are executed by a CLI-compatible runtime environment such as the

Cipher

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Cipher Return to Glossary A Cipher refers to the Cryptographic Algorithm used in the encryption and/or decryption of information. In common language, Cipher is also used to refer to an encrypted message (i.e., Ciphertext, also known as ‘code’. Source:

Ciphertext

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Ciphertext Return to Glossary Ciphertext is Data in its encrypted form . Ciphertext is encrypted text transformed from

Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA)

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Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) Return to Glossary The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA), is a United States federal law enacted in 2002 as Title V of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub.L. 107–347 (text) (PDF), 116 Stat. 2899, 44 U.S.C. § 101).

China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-02T18:58:26-0400

China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) Return to Glossary The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) was an agency of China authorized by the State Council to regulate the Chinese insurance products and services market and maintain legal and stable operations of insurance industry. It was founded on November 18, 1998, upgraded from a semi-ministerial to a ministerial institution in 2003, and currently has 31 local offices in every province.

Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC)

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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

Claim

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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

Class

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-28T01:29:22-0400

Class Return to Glossary A Class, in Programming Languages, are a user-defined data type, which holds its own data members and member functions, which can be accessed and used by creating an instance of that class. A class is like a blueprint for an object. For Example: Consider the Class of Cars. There may be many cars with different names and brands but all of them will share some common properties like all of them will have 4 wheels, Speed Limit, Mileage range, etc. So here, Car is the …

Clearinghouse

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Clearinghouse Return to Glossary Clearinghouse is a designated intermediary between a buyer and seller in a Financial Market. The Clearinghouse validates and finalizes the transaction, ensuring that both the buyer and the seller honor their contractual obligations. Every Financial Market has a designated

Cleartext

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Cleartext Return to Glossary Cleartext is transmitted or stored text that has not been subjected to encryption and is not meant to be encrypted. As such, Cleartext does not require decryption in order to be displayed. In its simplest form, Cleartext is rendered as American Standard for Information Interchange (ASCII) that can be read by any word processor or text editor. However,

Command Line Interface (CLI)

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Command Line Interface (CLI) Return to Glossary Command Line Interface (CLI) is is a text-based interface that is used to operate software and operating systems while allowing the user to respond to visual prompts by typing single commands into the interface and receiving a reply in the same way.

Client-Server

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Client-Server Return to Glossary 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.

Client

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Client Return to Glossary A Client is the receiving end of a service or the requestor of a service in a Client-Server model type of system. The client is most often located on another system or computer, which can be accessed via a network. This term was first used for devices that could not run their own programs, and were connected to remote computers that could via a network. These were called dumb terminals and they were served by time-sharing mainframe computers.

Cloud Service

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Cloud Service Return to Glossary Cloud Service is a broad category that encompasses the myriad Information Technology (IT) resources provided over the Internet. The expression may also be used to describe professional services that support the selection, deployment and ongoing management of various cloud-based resources.

Cloud Storage

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Cloud Storage Return to Glossary Cloud Storage is a service model in which data is transmitted and stored on remote storage systems, where it is maintained, managed, backed up and made available to users over a network -- typically, the internet. Users generally pay for their cloud data storage on a per-consumption, monthly rate.

Cloud Elasticity

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Cloud Elasticity Return to Glossary See 4.2.5 Elasticity Cloud Elasticity refers to the ability of a cloud service to provide on-demand offerings, nimbly switching resources when demand goes up or down. It is often an immediate reaction to clients dropping or adding services in real time.

Common Language Runtime (CLR)

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Common Language Runtime (CLR) Return to Glossary Common Language Runtime (CLR) is is a managed execution environment that is part of Microsoft’s .NET framework. CLR manages the execution of programs written in different supported languages. CLR transforms source code into a form of bytecode known as

Configuration Management (CM)

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Configuration Management (CM) Return to Glossary Configuration Management (CM) is a process for maintaining computer systems, servers, and software in a desired, consistent state. It’s a way to make sure that a system performs as expected as changes are made over time.

Command Shell

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Command Shell Return to Glossary The Command Shell is the command processor interface. The command processor is the program that executes operating system commands. The shell therefore, is the part of the command processor that accepts commands. After verifying that the commands are valid, the shell sends them to another part of the command processor to be executed.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

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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…

Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)

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Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Return to Glossary Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a specialized Internet application Protocol for constrained devices, as defined in RFC7252 - The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). It enables those constrained devices called “ Nodes” to communicate with the wider Internet using similar protocols.

Community of Interest (CoI)

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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.

Coins

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Coins Return to Glossary Coins (also often called altcoins or alternative cryptocurrency coins) are digital money, created using encryption techniques, that store value over time. Basically they are the digital equivalent of money. Bitcoin is the most famous example. Bitcoin is based on blockchain — public and distributed digital

Cold Boot Attack

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-07T17:42:27-0400

Cold Boot Attack Return to Glossary Cold Boot Attack or a platform reset attack, is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access (see Physical Security) to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer's Random Access Memory (RAM) by performing a hard reset of the target machine. Typically, Cold Boot Attacks can retrieve encryption keys from a running

Communication Protocol

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Communication Protocol Return to Glossary Communication protocols are formal descriptions of digital message formats and rules. They are required to exchange messages in or between computing systems and are required in telecommunications. Communication protocols cover

Communications Model

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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

Compiler

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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.

Component

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Component Return to Glossary A Component is a functionally independent part of any system. It performs some function and may require some input or produce some output. A component can be either a Hardware (H/W) or a Software (SW) component. A Software Component is a software program or module that contains computer instructions to be executed, e.g., an operating system, Internet application, or device driver.

Computer Architecture

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Computer Architecture Return to Glossary Computer Architecture is a science or a set of rules stating how computer software and hardware are joined together and interact to make a computer work. It not only determines how the computer works but also of which technologies the computer is capable.

Computer System

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Computer System Return to Glossary A Computer System is a basic, complete and functional hardware and software setup with everything needed to implement computing performance. Source:

Computing Platform

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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

Conceptual Schema

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Conceptual Schema Return to Glossary The Conceptual Schema offers a single, integrated view of the important information content elements, as well as the major interconnections among them. It is not tied to any specific modeling or definition language; rather, it is sufficiently general that it can be used in conjunction with a wide variety of such languages. The schema is based on fundamental, common notions of processes, and employs simple, natural language terminology.

Condition

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Condition Return to Glossary A Condition is 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:

Confidentiality

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Confidentiality Return to Glossary See 4.2.4.1 Confidentiality Definition #1 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.

Confidentiality Agreement

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Confidentiality Agreement Return to Glossary A Confidentiality Agreement is a legal agreement that binds one or more parties to non-disclosure of confidentiality or proprietary information. A confidentiality agreement is often used in situations wherein sensitive corporate information or proprietary knowledge is not to be made available to the general public or to competitors. A

Confirmation

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Confirmation Return to Glossary Confirmation is the blockchain transaction has been verified by the network. This happens through a process known as mining, in a proof-of-work system (e.g. Bitcoin). Once a transaction is confirmed, it cannot be reversed or double spent. The more confirmations a transaction has, the harder it becomes to perform a

Conformance Specification

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Conformance Specification Return to Glossary Conformance Specification defines requirements when the buyer specifies what they want, how they want it, and the supplier has to meet these specifications. In contraast, see Performance or Functional Specifications. Examples of conformance specification are:

Consensus Algorithm

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Consensus Algorithm Return to Glossary A Consensus Algorithm is a process in computer science used to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or systems. Consensus algorithms are designed to achieve reliability in a network involving multiple unreliable nodes. Solving that issue

Consensus Process

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Consensus Process Return to Glossary Consensus Process is a group of peers responsible for maintaining a distributed ledger use to reach consensus on the ledger’s contents.. Source:

Console

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Console Return to Glossary Console, also known as a Computer Console, a System Console or as a Terminal, is generally considered to be a combination of a display monitor and an input device (i.e., a keyboard and/or a mouse), allowing a person to type in commands and receive visual output from a computer or computer system.

Consortium Blockchain

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Consortium Blockchain Return to Glossary Consortium Blockchain is a blockchain where the consensus process is controlled by a pre-selected set of nodes; for example, one might imagine a consortium of 15 financial institutions, each of which operates a node and of which ten must sign every block for the block to be valid. The right to read the blockchain may be public or restricted to the participants. There are also hybrid routes such as the root hashes of the blocks being public together wi…

Container

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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…

Container Host

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Container Host Return to Glossary A Container Host or Host OS is the Host Operating System on which the Container client and Container daemon run. In the case of Linux and non-Hyper-V containers, the Host OS shares its kernel with running containers. For Hyper-V each container has its own Hyper-V kernel.

Container OS

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Container OS Return to Glossary Container OS or Base OS refers to an image that contains an operating system such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or windowsservercore. Typically, the local image is built on top of a Base OS image so that it can take use parts of the OS. Note that windows containers require a Base

Container Engine

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Container Engine Return to Glossary A Container Engine is a piece of software that accepts user requests, including command line options, pulls images, and from the end user’s perspective runs the container. There are many container engines, including docker, RKT, CRI-O, and LXD. Also, many cloud providers, Platforms as a Service (PaaS), and Container Platforms have their own built-in container engines which consume Docker or OCI compliant Container Images. Having an industry standard Contai…

Control Flow

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T05:19:09-0400

Control Flow Return to Glossary The Control Flow is the order in which the computer executes statements in a script. Code is run in order from the first line in the file to the last line, unless the computer runs across the (extremely frequent) structures that change the control flow, such as conditionals and loops.

Control Level

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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.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

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Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Return to Glossary The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) (15 U.S. Code § 6501) protects children's information at the federal level, which prohibits the collection of any information from a child under the age of 13 online and from digitally connected devices, and requires publication of privacy notices and collection of verifiable parental consent when information from children is being collected.

Copyleft

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Copyleft Return to Glossary Copyleft refers to licenses that allow derivative works but require them to use the same license as the original work. For example, if you write some software and release it under the GNU General Public License (a widely-used copyleft license), and then someone else modifies that software and distributes their modified version, the modified version must be licensed under the GNU

Copyright

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Copyright Return to Glossary Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of Intellectual Property (IP). In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.

Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

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Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Return to Glossary The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard developed by the Object Management Group® (OMG®) to provide interoperability among distributed objects. CORBA is the world's leading middleware solution enabling the exchange of information, independent of hardware platforms, programming languages, and operating systems. CORBA is essentially a design specification for an Object Request Broker (ORB), where a…

Core Dump

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-26T17:24:20-0400

Core Dump Return to Glossary Core Dump, also known as Memory Dump, Crash Dump, System Dump, or ABEND Dump, consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has crashed or otherwise terminated abnormally. In practice, other key pieces of program state are usually dumped at the same time, including the processor registers, which may include the program counter and stack pointer, memory management information, and other pr…

Corruption

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-01T19:02:39-0400

Corruption Return to Glossary Corruption is dishonest behavior by those in positions of power, such as managers or government officials. Corruption can include giving or accepting bribes or inappropriate gifts, double-dealing, under-the-table transactions, manipulating elections, diverting funds,

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:09-0400

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.

California Privacy Act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-10-17T17:39:01-0400

California Privacy Act Return to Glossary The California Privacy Act is a state level privacy act that provides protection of consumer information. The act is described as a stricter version of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The California Privacy Act provides narrower definitions of some language found in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. For example, financial institutions that are regulated under the act only include institutions that are

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T02:05:23-0400

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.

Crash

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T06:13:36-0400

Crash Return to Glossary A Crash, also known as a System Crash or Application Crash, is an event wherein the Operating System (OS) or a computer Application stops functioning properly. It mostly occurs when: Hardware (H/W) has failed in a non-recoverable fashionOperating System (OS) data have become corruptedRecovery from an error is not possible without loss of data

Credit Card

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-03T19:16:45-0400

Credit Card Return to Glossary A Credit Card is a type of payment card in which charges are made against a line of credit instead of the account holder’s cash deposits. When someone uses a credit card to make a purchase, that person’s account accrues a balance that must be paid off each month. Although failure to pay off the credit card on time could result in interest charges and late fees, credit cards can also help users build a positive credit history.

California Right to Financial Privacy Act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-30T20:56:48-0400

California Right to Financial Privacy Act Return to Glossary The California Right to Financial Privacy Act is the California version of the U.S. Federal Right to Financial Privacy Act, but was two years before the federal government passed an act of the same name in 1976. The act regulated the state's government agencies' abilities to access nonpublic consumer information. As a result of the act, California's government agencies are not authorized to access financial records unless the consu…

Crowdfunding

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-14T13:27:51-0400

Crowdfunding Return to Glossary Crowdfunding is the use of small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals to finance a new business venture. Crowdfunding makes use of the easy accessibility of vast networks of people through social media and crowdfunding websites to bring investors and entrepreneurs together, with the potential to increase entrepreneurship by expanding the pool of investors beyond the traditional circle of owners, relatives, and venture capitalists.

Cryptocurrency Addresses

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:09-0400

Cryptocurrency Addresses Return to Glossary Cryptocurrency Addresses is used to receive and send transactions on the network. An address is a string of alphanumeric characters, but can also be represented as a scannable QR code. Source:

Cryptoanalysis

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:09-0400

Cryptoanalysis Return to Glossary Cryptoanalysis is the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information, without access to the secret information that is normally required to do so.. Source:

Cryptocurrency

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:09-0400

Cryptocurrency Return to Glossary A Cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend. Many cryptocurrencies are decentralized networks based on blockchain technology—a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers.

Cryptographic Algorithm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T08:00:40-0400

Cryptographic Algorithm Return to Glossary A Cryptographic Algorithm, or cipher or Encryption Algorithm or Decryption Algorithm, the means of altering data from a readable form (also known as plaintext) to a protected form (also known as ciphertext), and back to the readable form. Changing

Cryptographic Checksum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T09:34:57-0400

Cryptographic Checksum Return to Glossary Cryptographic Checksum is generated by a Cryptographic Algorithm, a Cryptographic Checksum is a mathematical value assigned to a file sent through a network for verifying that the data contained in that file is unchanged. The algorithm performs numerous mathematical operations to create a hash value, or fixed string of digits. This hash value is then used as a

Cryptographic Key

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T09:37:33-0400

Cryptographic Key Return to Glossary Cryptographic Key is a parameter used in conjunction with a Cryptographic Algorithm that determines its operation in such a way that an entity with knowledge of the key can reproduce, reverse or verify the operation while an entity without knowledge of the

Cryptography

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T12:06:49-0400

Cryptography Return to Glossary Cryptography is the process of Encrypting and Decrypting information. Source:

California Song-Beverly Credit Card Act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-30T21:00:43-0400

California Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Return to Glossary The California Song-Beverly Credit Card Act was passed in 1971 to protect consumer information in credit card transactions. Under the act, companies may not collect personally identifiable information from consumers who purchase goods or services using credit cards. Companies cannot set conditions in which consumers must consent to sharing their information in order to use their credit cards for a transaction. However, consumer infor…

China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-02T19:02:12-0400

China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Return to Glossary The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is the national regulatory body that oversees the securities and futures industry of the country. The CSRC is the functional equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the U.S., charged with maintaining orderly and fair markets. The CSRC includes 36 regulatory bureaus that cover different geographic regions1 of the country, and two supervisory bureaus at the n…

Comma Separated Values (CSV)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T10:55:17-0400

Comma Separated Values (CSV) Return to Glossary A Comma Separated Values (CSV) file contains different values separated by a delimiter, which acts as a database table or an intermediate form of a database table. In other words, a CSV file is a set of database rows and columns stored in a text file such that the rows are separated by a new line while the columns are separated by a semicolon or a comma. A CSV file is primarily used to transport data between two databases of different formats t…

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-25T11:20:54-0400

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Return to Glossary Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) is a community-developed list of common software and hardware weakness types that have security ramifications. “Weaknesses” are flaws, faults, bugs, or other errors in software or hardware implementation, code, design, or architecture that if left unaddressed could result in systems, networks, or hardware being vulnerable to attack. The CWE List and associated classification taxonomy serve as a language t…

Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-21T19:16:45-0400

Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) Return to Glossary The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) specifies interfaces that can be used to enable the easy interchange of warehouse and business intelligence metadata between warehouse tools, warehouse platforms, and warehouse metadata repositories in distributed heterogeneous environments. CWM is based on three standards:

Cyber Resiliency

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-11T15:45:23-0400

Cyber Resiliency Return to Glossary Cyber Resiliency is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources. Cyber resiliency is intended to enable mission or business objectives that depend on cyber resources to be achieved in a contested cyber environment.

Cybersecurity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T12:28:41-0400

Cybersecurity Return to Glossary Cybersecurity is the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks. It's also known as Information Technology (IT) security or electronic information security. The term applies in a variety of contexts, from business to mobile computing, and can be divided into a few common categories:

Cyclomatic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T04:34:13-0400

Cyclomatic Return to Glossary Cyclomatic is ... Definition #1 Graph Theory It is used to describe the number of edges that must be removed from a graph to ensure that no graph cycle remains; equal to the number of edges, minus the number of nodes plus one. Definition #2 Network Analysis

Cyclomatic Complexity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T04:34:51-0400

Cyclomatic Complexity Return to Glossary Cyclomatic Complexity, in Software Testing, is a testing metric used for measuring the complexity of a software program. It is a quantitative measure of independent paths in the source code of a software program. Cyclomatic Complexity can be calculated by using control flow graphs or with respect to functions, modules, methods or classes within a software program.

CyberSecurity Culture (CSC)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-19T11:24:19-0400

CyberSecurity Culture (CSC) Return to Glossary CyberSecurity Culture (CSC) of organizations refers to the knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, norms and values of people regarding Cybersecurity and how these manifest in people’s behavior with information technologies.

Glossary C Terms

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:09-0400

Glossary C Terms Return to Glossary Note: You can add new terms beginning with 'C' here List of Words Return to Top * Cable Subscriber Protection * California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCCRA) * California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) * California Privacy Act * California Right to Financial Privacy Act * California Song-Beverly Credit Card Act * Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) * Cardano * Category 5 (Cat-5) * Category 6 (Cat-6) * Category 7 (Cat-7) * C…