Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Term
Description
Mission
A specific task or set of tasks given to an individual
or collection of individuals or entities, e.g.,
organization.
Mission entropy
When operations exceed acceptable deviation
parameters, operations have entered a state of
mission entropy.
Mission integrity
Mission integrity is maintained when all relevant
operations are working toward the fulfillment of the
mission within an acceptable level of deviation.
Mitigate (mitigation)
To make less harmful.
National Institute of
Standards and
Technology (NIST)
As stated on NIST's Web site (http://www.nist.gov/),
NIST is a nonregulatory federal agency within the
U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST's mission is to
promote U.S. innovation and industrial
competitiveness by advancing measurement
science, standards, and technology in ways that
enhance economic security and improve our quality
of life.
Nonrepudiation
The inability for a message sender to later deny
having sent the message.
Object
A logical or physical something that may be viewed,
sensed, or otherwise receive focus; a subject may
act upon an object.
Ontology
The philosophical definition is a discipline
concerned with nature, categories, and relations of
being; in context of technology, an ontology is a
specification of concepts to establish common
meaning to promote effective communications.
Operational construct
The combining of parts for a practical purpose
involving the application of processes.
Operations
Practical application of processes. Alternatively,
consider that policy describes the functional
parameters of business or mission, standards
describe what to use to enforce policy, and
procedures describe how to use the standards to
enforce policy; operations is the practical
application of procedures.
