NISTIR 7298 Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms

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NIST IR 7298 Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms Release Prefix – Prefix appended to the short title of U.S.-produced keying material to indicate its foreign releasability. "A" designates material that is releasable to specific allied nations, and "U.S." designates material intended exclusively for U. S. use. SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Relying Party – An entity that relies upon the subscriber’s credentials, typically to process a transaction or grant access to information or a system. SOURCE: SP 800-63; CNSSI-4009 Remanence – Residual information remaining on storage media after clearing. See magnetic remanence and clearing. SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Remediation – The act of correcting a vulnerability or eliminating a threat. Three possible types of remediation are installing a patch, adjusting configuration settings, or uninstalling a software application. SOURCE: SP 800-40 The act of mitigating a vulnerability or a threat. SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Remediation Plan – A plan to perform the remediation of one or more threats or vulnerabilities facing an organization’s systems. The plan typically includes options to remove threats and vulnerabilities and priorities for performing the remediation. SOURCE: SP 800-40 Remote Access – Access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system acting on behalf of a user) communicating through an external network (e.g., the Internet). SOURCE: SP 800-53 Access by users (or information systems) communicating external to an information system security perimeter. SOURCE: SP 800-18 The ability for an organization’s users to access its nonpublic computing resources from external locations other than the organization’s facilities. SOURCE: SP 800-46 Pg 154
NIST IR 7298 Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms Access to an organization's nonpublic information system by an authorized user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Remote Diagnostics/Maintenance – Maintenance activities conducted by authorized individuals communicating through an external network (e.g., the Internet). SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Remote Maintenance – Maintenance activities conducted by individuals communicating external to an information system security perimeter. SOURCE: SP 800-18 Maintenance activities conducted by individuals communicating through an external network (e.g., the Internet). SOURCE: SP 800-53 Remote Rekeying – Procedure by which a distant crypto-equipment is rekeyed electrically. See automatic remote rekeying and manual remote rekeying. SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Removable Media – Portable electronic storage media such as magnetic, optical, and solid-state devices, which can be inserted into and removed from a computing device, and that is used to store text, video, audio, and image information. Such devices have no independent processing capabilities. Examples include hard disks, floppy disks, zip drives, compact disks (CDs), thumb drives, pen drives, and similar USB storage devices. SOURCE: CNSSI-4009 Portable electronic storage media such as magnetic, optical, and Solid-state devices, which can be inserted into and removed from a computing device, and that is used to store text, video, audio, and image information. Examples include hard disks, floppy disks, zip drives, compact disks, thumb drives, pen drives, and similar USB storage devices. SOURCE: SP 800-53 Renew (a certificate) – The act or process of extending the validity of the data binding asserted by a public key certificate by issuing a new certificate. SOURCE: SP 800-32 Pg 155
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