Acronyms (Page 13)

Question 1

PHI

Answer 1

Personal Health Information

Any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to a specific individual.

Question 2

PII

Answer 2

Personally Identifiable Information

Information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

Question 3

PIV

Answer 3

Personal Identity Verification

A United States federal government standard for reliable identification and access control card.

Question 4

PKCS

Answer 4

Public Key Cryptography Standards

A set of standards for public-key cryptography that were established by RSA Data Security, Inc.

Question 5

PKI

Answer 5

Public Key Infrastructure

A set of roles, policies, hardware, software, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption.

Question 6

POP

Answer 6

Post Office Protocol

An Internet standard protocol used by local email clients to retrieve email from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection.

Question 7

POTS

Answer 7

Plain Old Telephone Service

The voice-grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in most parts of the world.

Question 8

PPP

Answer 8

Point-to-Point Protocol

A data link protocol commonly used to establish a direct connection between two networking nodes.

Question 9

PPTP

Answer 9

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

A method for implementing virtual private networks.

Question 10

PSK

Answer 10

Pre-shared Key

A shared secret which was previously shared between the two parties using some secure channel before it needs to be used.

Question 11

PTZ

Answer 11

Pan-tilt-zoom

A type of camera that is capable of remote directional and zoom control.

Question 12

PUP

Answer 12

Potentially Unwanted Program

A program that a user may perceive as unwanted.

Question 13

RA

Answer 13

Recovery Agent

An entity that has the ability to recover a key, certificate, or encrypted data.

Question 14

RA

Answer 14

Registration Authority

An authority in a network that verifies user requests for a digital certificate and tells the Certificate Authority (CA) to issue it.

Question 15

RACE

Answer 15

Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe

A former European Union research and development program focused on developing advanced telecommunications networks.

Question 16

RAD

Answer 16

Rapid Application Development

A type of software development methodology that prioritizes rapid prototype releases and iterations.

Question 17

RADIUS

Answer 17

Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service

A networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA or Triple A) management for users who connect and use a network service.