Statistical Terms Glossary

Is the technical underpinning of a content application, like a Content Management System or a Document Management System to be more specific. It functions as the logical storage facility for content.

The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks.

<storage> Main memory or RAM. This term dates from the days of ferrite core memory; now archaic most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. <processor> An integrated circuit design, usually for a microprocessor, which includes only the CPU and which is intended to form part of a complete circuit design which incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as cache, memory . <language> A varient on kernel as used to describe features built into a language as opposed to those provided by libraries.
management unit, I/O ports and timers.

The central part of a telecom network that provides various services to customers who are connected by the access network.

Method in which a fixed sum or a percentage of the total cost is added (as income or profit) to the cost of the product to arrive at its selling price

Entered into force in July 2004, is the only binding international treaty on the subject to have been adopted to date. It lays down guidelines for all governments wishing to develop legislation against cybercrime.
Open to signature by non-European states, the convention also provides a framework for international co-operation in this field. An additional Protocol outlaws acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems.

An Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country (a sovereign state or a dependent territory).

Calling party pays (CPP)

A type of fraud in which the numbers on a credit card are recorded and then transferred to a duplicate card. This is done without the knowledge of the original credit card holder.

A concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or nation.

The smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable material depends upon its nuclear properties (e.g. the nuclear fission cross-section), its density, its shape, its enrichment, its purity, its temperature, and its surroundings.

The application of mathematical theory to develop techniques and algorithms that can be applied to data to ensure goals such as confidentiality, data integrity and/or authentication.

A term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative, transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies. It is less a distinct field of law in the way that property or contract are, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation.

The global domain of electromagnetics as accessed and exploited through electronic technology and the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities.

An organization that facilitates online transactions without owning the products or services.

Describes an institution that teaches courses entirely or primarily through online methods. Though there are tens of thousands of commercial and non-accredited courses available online, the term "virtual school" is generally reserved for accredited schools that teach a full-time (or nearly full-time) course of instruction designed to lead to a degree.

A branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users.

The toolkit is intended to assist national government officials at the management level in examining their existing national policies, procedures, norms, institutions, and relationships in light of the Report. It
assists in identifying: major players involved in cybersecurity/critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) in a country; and their roles and their means of coordination, interaction, and cooperation. The toolkit assists policy makers and managers from relevant agencies and institutions to discuss among themselves their nation’s cybersecurity efforts and arrangements.

The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc

In computer science, data is anything in a form suitable for use with a computer.

In computing, a buffer is a region of memory used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved from one place to another.

A hardware signal defined by the RS-232-C standard that indicates that the device, usually a modem, is online and ready for transmission.

In telecommunication, data compaction is the reduction of the number of data elements, bandwidth, cost, and time for the generation, transmission, and storage of data without loss of information by eliminating unnecessary redundancy, removing irrelevancy, or using special coding.

Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. Sometimes backward compatibility is limited to being able to read old data but does not extend to being able to write data in a format that can be read by old versions.

Is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers. It is used to empirically measure productive efficiency of decision making units (or DMUs).