NISTIR 7298 Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms

NIST IR 7298 Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms
Easter Egg – Hidden functionality within an application program, which becomes
activated when an undocumented, and often convoluted, set of
commands and keystrokes are entered. Easter eggs are typically used
to display the credits for the development team and are intended to be
nonthreatening.
SOURCE: SP 800-28
Education (Information Security) – Education integrates all of the security skills and competencies of the
various functional specialties into a common body of knowledge . . .
and strives to produce IT security specialists and professionals
capable of vision and proactive response.
SOURCE: SP 800-50
Egress Filtering – Filtering of outgoing network traffic.
SOURCE: SP 800-41
Electronic Authentication –
(E-authentication)
Electronic Business (e-business) – Doing business online.
SOURCE: CNSSI-4009
The process of blocking outgoing packets that use obviously false
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, such as source addresses from
internal networks.
SOURCE: SP 800-61
The process of establishing confidence in user identities
electronically presented to an information system.
SOURCE: SP 800-63; CNSSI-4009
Electronic Credentials – Digital documents used in authentication that bind an identity or an
attribute to a subscriber's token.
SOURCE: SP 800-63; CNSSI-4009
Electronic Evidence – Information and data of investigative value that is stored on or
transmitted by an electronic device.
SOURCE: SP 800-72
Electronic Key Entry – The entry of cryptographic keys into a cryptographic module using
electronic methods such as a smart card or a key-loading device. (The
operator of the key may have no knowledge of the value of the key
being entered.)
SOURCE: FIPS 140-2
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