Acronyms (Page 13) - Reverse

Question 1

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

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PHI

Personal Health Information

Question 2

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.

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PII

Personally Identifiable Information

Question 3

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

Answer 3

PIV

Personal Identity Verification

Question 4

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

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PKCS

Public Key Cryptography Standards

Question 5

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.

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PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

Question 6

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

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POP

Post Office Protocol

Question 7

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.

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POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

Question 8

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

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PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

Question 9

A method for implementing virtual private networks.

Answer 9

PPTP

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

Question 10

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

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PSK

Pre-shared Key

Question 11

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

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PTZ

Pan-tilt-zoom

Question 12

A program that a user may perceive as unwanted.

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PUP

Potentially Unwanted Program

Question 13

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

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RA

Recovery Agent

Question 14

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

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RA

Registration Authority

Question 15

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

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RACE

Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe

Question 16

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

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RAD

Rapid Application Development

Question 17

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

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RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service