Across
- 1. A location on the World Wide Web, accessed by typing its address (URL) into a web browser. A website always includes a home page and may contain additional documents or pages.
- 3. A string of characters used to verify or “authenticate” a person’s identity.
- 5. thing that you are on
- 9. Methods for differentiating humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits such as fingerprints or facial geometry.
- 10. An individual that is authorized by the information owner to access the resource, in accordance with the information owner’s procedures and rules. The user is any person who has been authorized by the information owner to read, enter, or update that information. The user is the single most effective control for providing adequate security. See OP 44.00 and OP 44.01 for a list of duties and responsibilities.
- 11. A computer virus refers to a program that enters your computer—often through email or Internet downloads—and makes copies of itself, spreading throughout your computer and files. There is a wide range of computer viruses out there. They can be anything from merely annoying to horribly damaging—deleting files or making your computer inoperable. Viruses attach themselves to an application on a computer and aren’t actually executed until that application is accessed or run.
- 14. The requirement that an asset or resource be accessible to authorized persons, entities, or devices.
- 16. An access control mechanism that acts as a barrier between two or more segments of a computer network or overall client/server architecture, used to protect internal networks or network segments from unauthorized users or processes. Such devices include hardware that is placed in the network to create separate security zones, provide NAT, and create a point of access control.
- 17. Personal computer
- 18. All associated equipment and media creating electronic transmission between any information system(s), such as wired, optical, wireless, IP, synchronous serial, telephony, etc.
- 20. A global system interconnecting computers and computer networks. The computers and networks are owned separately by a host of organizations, government agencies, companies, and colleges.
Down
- 2. In the context of IT, any device capable of performing complex functions to provide services by use of hardware, firmware, software, or other programming. Systems may include workstations, desktops, laptops, servers, routers, and switches.
- 4. Any computer providing a service over the network. Services include, but are not limited to: website publishing, SSH, chat, printing, wireless access, and file sharing.
- 6. The combination of user name and password that provides an individual, group, or service with access to a computer system or computer network.
- 7. A pseudonym used by a user to access a computer system - typically based on the user’s legal name or some derivative thereof.
- 8. Artificial Intelligence
- 12. Copy of files and applications made to avoid loss of data and facilitate recovery in the event of a system failure.
- 13. A data communications network spanning a limited geographical area. It provides communication between computers and peripherals at relatively high data rates and relatively low error rates.
- 15. Any set of circumstances in which the anticipated and configured delivery of a service is interrupted, delayed, or otherwise unavailable.
- 19. World Wide Web