Glossary and Acronyms
Glossary and Acronyms
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- [assurance][1. The act of assuring or the condition of being
assured... 2. A statement of indication that inspires confidence...;
guarantee... 3a. Freedom from doubt..., b. Self-confidence... 4.
Boldness...]
- [assure][1. To inform confidently, with a view to removing
doubt... 2. To cause to feel sure; convince... 3. To give confidence
to; reassure... 4. To make certain...]
- [availability][assured level of service, capacity, quality,
timeliness, reliability.]
- [Corruption][The opposite of information integrity.]
- [COTS][Commercial-Off-The-Shelf]
- [Denial of Services][The opposite of service availability]
- [DII][Defense Information Infrastructure]
- [DISA][Defense Information Systems Agency - the sponsor of this
study.]
- [DISN][Defense Information System Network]
- [Disruption][Uncertainty - denial of services, information
corruption.]
- [DoD][Department of Defense]
- [GOTS][Government-Off-The-Shelf]
- [integrity][``1. Strict personal honesty and independence... 2.
Completeness; unity... 3. The state of being unimpaired;
soundness...'']
- [Legacy][Existing.]
- [NII][National Information Infrastructure]
- [Open Systems][A system which can be interconnected to others
according to established standards. Systems which use stable,
publicly-defined, vendor-independent interfaces and allow interoperation
between various computers, regardless of make or model. Current
examples include AT\&T Unix, Open Software Foundation OSF/1, POSIX, and
GOSIP.]
- [Stovepiped][Vertically integrated systems that perform the whole
range of functions required for a particular application.]
- [US][United States]