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Whistleblower Protection Act

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is a law that protects federal government employees in the United States from ...
smart contract

A smart contract, also known as a cryptocontract, is a computer program that directly controls the transfer of digital currencies...
risk map (risk heat map)

A risk map, also known as a risk heat map, is a data visualization tool for communicating specific risks an organization faces. A...

certificate authority (CA)

A certificate authority (CA) is a trusted entity that issues digital certificates, which are data files used to cryptographically...
hacktivism

Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purpose.
advanced persistent threat (APT)

An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a prolonged and targeted cyberattack in which an intruder gains access to a network and ...

Cerner Corp.

Cerner Corp. is a public company in North Kansas City, Mo., that provides various health information technologies, ranging from ...
clinical decision support system (CDSS)

A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is an application that analyzes data to help healthcare providers make decisions and ...
Health IT (health information technology)

Health IT (health information technology) is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of ...

tabletop exercise (TTX)

A tabletop exercise (TTX) is a disaster preparedness activity that takes participants through the process of dealing with a ...
risk mitigation

Risk mitigation is a strategy to prepare for and lessen the effects of threats faced by a data center.
ransomware recovery

Ransomware recovery is the process of resuming options following a cyberattack that demands payment in exchange for unlocking ...

SSD (solid-state drive)

An SSD (solid-state drive) is a type of nonvolatile storage media that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory.
file system

In a computer, a file system -- sometimes written filesystem -- is the way in which files are named and where they are placed ...
storage virtualization

Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage ...