Acronyms #2 Flashcards
BPA
Business Partners Agreement
A written agreement that details the relationship between business partners, including their obligations towards the partnership.
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device.
CA
Certificate Authority
CAC
Common Access Card
CAN
Controller Area Network
A standard that allows microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other without a host computer.
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
A GD mouth-full is what it is
Turing test: A test designed by Alan Turing to determine a machines ability to exhibit behaviour similar to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
CAR
Corrective Action Report
CCMP
Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol
CCMP is just simplier
Used with WPA2 for wireless security
CCTV
Closed Circuit Television
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
An authentication protocol where a server challenges a client.
More secure than PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) and uses PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol).
MS-CHAPv2 is an improvement over CHAP and uses Mutual authentication.
CIA
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Form the security Triad
CIO
Chief Information Officer
CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
COOP
Continuity of Operations Planning
