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 Under Construction.

Version 0.1 (just starting to pull together several old glossaries)

IT General:

SDLC - Software Development Lifecycle

Regulatory:

SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley
The Act has established a new paradigm for corporate responsibility and behavior
Section 302 (effective now) CEO/CFO certified to the integrity of the Frinancial
Reporting information

HIPAA - Health Information Portability and Accountability Act 
Move the Health Care Industry into the Digital Age
3 Major Components-Privacy Rule, Security Rule & Transaction Code Set
Assures the security of Personal Health Information (PHI) and the establishment
of an electronic payment  system for Health Care Coverage

GLB - Gramm Leach Bliley  - 
Act applies to financial institutions, their service providers and affiliates
Focus on Protecting PII in the Financial Industry

PII - personally identifiable information 


Security:
CA - Certification Authority
CAPI - Crypto API
Clipper Chip 
DAC - Discressonary Access Controldo.txt
DCE - Distributed Computing Environment
DFS - Distributed File System
Fortezza Initiative - 
FRAD - Frame Relay Assembler Disambeler
GSS - Generic Security Service
IPsec - IP Security
ISS Internet Security Systems
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LSA - Local Security Agent      image_aspect_ratio.html
NCSC - National Computer Security Centersk-top
NSDD 145 - National Security Decision Directivecd 
PAC - Principal Attribute Certificate
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
RAS - Remote Access Services
S/MIME - Secure MIME
SAM - Security Account Manager  
SET - Secure Electronic Transactions
SID - Security ID               
SIM Security Information Management
SMB - System Message Block    
SSL - Secure Socket Layer

Windows:
CIFS - Common Internet File System - The file sharing protocol used in Windows. 
It evolved out of SMB.  Submitted to the internet for standart by Microsoft but never accepted.
SMB - Server Message Block  file sharing protocol protocol in DOS (NetBIOS).

last updated 24 Apr 2005