- Industry: Telecommunications
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
1. Information, other than cryptographic keys, that is needed to establish and describe the protection mechanisms that secure the communications between two entities. 2. A security attribute is a piece of security information which is associated with an entity in a distributed system. 3. Attributes associated with processes and files and used to determine access rights of a subject to an object.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The ultimate user of a telecommunications service. 2. A person in contact with a Target of Evaluation who makes use only of its operational capacity.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The type of computer on which a given operating system or application runs. Synonym hardware platform. 2. The operating system in use on a given computer. Synonym operating system platform. 3. The application program in use on a given computer and operating system. Synonym application platform. Note 1: The term platform, usually with some kind of accompanying qualifying verbiage, may also be applied to any combination of the foregoing. Note 2: The term cross-platform may be used to characterize an application program or operating system that may be run on more than one platform.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The totality of all of the Internet facilities—http, ftp, etc. —offered by an individual or an organization. 2. A Web location where Web pages are found. Synonym (in this sense) Web site. Note: A Web site describes only those resources available through the World Wide Web.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second. Note: A periodic phenomenon that has a period of one second has a frequency of one hertz. 2. A unit of frequency which is equivalent to one cycle per second.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The served user's (or controller's) reference to a particular party within the context of a call. Note 1: Multiple parties may be associated with a given call, e. G. , a conference call. Moreover, there may be multiple connections associated with a single party, e. G. , a simultaneous voice and video call. Note 2: This service description assumes that there exists only one connection to a given party. 2. In a teleconference, any participant.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The rights granted to a user to access, read, modify, insert, or delete certain data, or to execute certain programs. 2. Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process. 3. The granting of access to a security object. 4. The process by which an access control decision is made and enforced. 5. The granting of rights, which includes the granting of access based on access rights.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The profile that includes the service profile and contains all the data associated with the user, e. G. , incoming call handling information, selection of service provider/service area coverage, service subscriptions, service parameters, etc. 2. A description of a user, typically used for access control. Note: A user profile may include data such as user ID, user name, password, access rights, and other attributes. 3. A pattern of a user's activity that can be used to detect changes in the activity. 4. Patterns of a user's activity that can show changes from normal behavior.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The possibility that a particular threat will exploit a particular vulnerability of a data processing system. 2. The likelihood that a successful attack will be mounted against a computer system. Risk is a function of both vulnerability and threat.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. The linking together of interoperable systems. 2. The linkage used to join two or more communications units, such as systems, networks, links, nodes, equipment, circuits, and devices.
Industry:Telecommunications
