Chapter 2 Key Concepts and Terms

Question 1

Anything as a Service (AaaS)

Answer 1

A new technology offering a solution that is hosted by a third-party vendor typically within a cloud infrastructure. By hosting within a cloud infrastructure, a one-to-many delivery solution can be supported. This type of delivery solution allows for a recurring revenue model where the customer pays a monthly fee for the use of the technology, hardware, or software solution.

Question 2

Application Service Provider (ASP)

Answer 2

A software company that builds applications hosted in the cloud and on the internet and commercially sells that application in a one-to-many delivery model

Question 3

Availability

Answer 3

A mathematical formula that quantifies the amount of uptime for a system compared to the amount of downtime. Usually displayed as a ratio

Question 4

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Answer 4

An organizational policy of allowing or even encouraging employees, contractors, and others to connect their own personal equipment to the corporate network; this offers cost savings but requires proper security controls, policies, and procedures.

Question 5

Business-to-business (B2B)

Answer 5

A term used to describe a business that builds online systems with links for conducting business-to-business transactions, usually for integrated supply-chain purchases and deliveries.

Question 6

Business-to-consumer (B2C)

Answer 6

A term used to describe online storefront for consumers to purchase goods and services directly.

Question 7

Collaboration

Answer 7

A software-based application like WebEx that supports audio conferencing and sharing of documents (text, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.) for real time decisions with team members or colleagues.

Question 8

Confidentiality

Answer 8

The requirement to keep information private or secret

Question 9

De-Identified Data

Answer 9

data about an individual that contains no information that could be linked to a specific individuals identity (e.g. name, address, date of birth, etc.)

Question 10

Digital Media

Answer 10

Any digitally recorded or captured audio, video, or image file.

Question 11

End of Life

Answer 11

A term used to describe the data by which the vendor or manufacturer ceases to support and provide software updates and patches for a product or software application

Question 12

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Answer 12

A US federal law that protects the private data of students, including their transcripts and grades, with which K-12 and higher education institutions must comply

Question 13

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)

Answer 13

An interagency body of five U.S. regulatory agencies that exist to “promote uniformity & consistency in the supervision of financial institutions.

Question 14

Integrity

Answer 14

The validity of information or data. Data with high integrity has not been altered or modified.

Question 15

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Answer 15

A standards organization that develops and promotes internet standards

Question 16

Interoperability

Answer 16

A term used to describe computers, devices, or applications that can be configured to work together.

Question 17

Metadata

Answer 17

A term used to refer to data about data (e.g. there are 100 entries in the database table, of the 100 entries, 99 were inputted manually and 1 was inputted automatically, etc.)

Question 18

Mobile IP

Answer 18

a protocol for allowing mobile devices to transparently switch LAN segments

Question 19

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Answer 19

A standard, not a compliance law, for merchants and service providers regarding safeguarding the processing, storage, and transmission of cardholder data

Question 20

Privacy

Answer 20

The protection of individual rights to non-disclosure

Question 21

Radio Frequency Identification

Answer 21

A technology that exchanges data through a wireless connection between a reader and a tag attached to a product to track the movement of the product

Question 22

Real-time communication

Answer 22

A communication method in which messages are sent directly to the recipient immediately

Question 23

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Answer 23

Refers to the strategies used to make a site more browser-friendly

Question 24

Security

Answer 24

A control such as a policy, procedure, and physical thing like a gate that is used to protect something from risks, threats, and vulnerabilities

Question 25

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Answer 25

A model of software deployment or service where customers use applications on demand.

Question 26

Store-and-forward communications

Answer 26

The technique of relaying communications between two or more users by intermediate storage. Delivery from sender to a central storage is immediate, but the final transmission to the recipient depends upon availability and a request for the stored information.

Question 27

Unified Messaging

Answer 27

The storage of fax, email, and voice communications in a single location