IT SECURITY TERMINOLOGY
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| Cloud Storage | Information is saved to the web.
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| Computer Network | Group of inter-conneted computers.
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| Data Theft | An employee that copies proprietary data for personal gain or use by another company.
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| Firewall | Blocks unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications.
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| FTP Backup | Backup done by File Transfer Protocol over the internet.
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| Hoaxes | Message warning the recipient of a non-existent computer virus threat.
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| Identity Theft | Fraud that involves someone pretending to be someone else in order to steal money or get other benefits.
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| IT Security | Field of computer science concerned with the control of risks related to computer use.
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| Laptop | Portable computer.
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| Local Backup | Backup where the storage medium is kept close at hand.
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| Memory Stick | Portable storage device.
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| Mirror Backup | Mirror of the source being backed up
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| Network Drive | Storage device on a local access network (LAN) within a business or home.
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| Offsite Backup | Backup storage media is kept at a different geographic location from the source.
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| Online Identity | Social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites
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| Phishing | Criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
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| Portable Device | Movable device such as a laptop, netbook. PDA or memory stick.
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| Privacy Policy | Legal document that discloses how a party retains, processes, discloses, and purges customer's data.
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| Public Network | Network that is shared by the public at large.
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| Remote Backup | A form of offsite backup with a difference being that you can access, restore or administer the backups while located at your source location or other location.
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| Rogue Diallers | Pieces of software secretly placed on your computer and when you connect to the internet, these diallers quietly disconnect you and dial a premium-rate phone number instead.
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| Spam | Abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
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| Spyware | Type of malware that is installed secretly on personal computers to collect information about users, their computer or browsing habits without their informed consent.
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| Trojan Horse | Program containing hidden codes which when it is invoked performs harmful actions such as deleting a user’s files and destroying data.
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| Virus | A written program intended to cause disruption and damage to computer systems.
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| Wireless Network | Type of computer network that is wireless.
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| Worm | Makes multiple copies of itself and send these copies from the computer.
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| Adware | Software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used
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| Encryption | Process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge or a key.
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| Bluetooth Connecivity | Devices communicate with each other using a variety of wires, cables, radio signals and infrared light beams, and an even greater variety of connectors, plugs and protocols.
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| Passowrd | A word or string of characters used for user authentication to prove identity or access approval to gain access to a resource
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| Data Corruption | Errors in computer data that occur during transmission or retrieval, introducing unintended changes to the original data
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