Wireless Operational Security
This comprehensive wireless network book addresses the operational and day-to-day security management requirements of 21st century companies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Wireless Operational Security
Glossary
| Note | Some of the material presented herein was taken from the Cybersecurity Operations Handbook by Dr. John W. Rittinghouse and Dr. William M. Hancock, Boston, MA: Digital Press, 2003. Reprinted with permission. |
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Data typically made up of a list of principals, a list of resources, and a list of permissions.
- ACL-based authorization
- A scheme where the authorization agent consults an ACL to grant or deny access to a principal.
See also Centralized authorization.
- Address spoofing
- A type of attack in which the attacker steals a legitimate network address of a system and uses it to impersonate the system that owns the address.
- Administrator
- A person responsible for the day-to-day operation of system and network resources. This is most often several individuals or an organization comprised of several individuals with admin rights.
- Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
- The standard system for analog cellular telephone service in the United States. AMPS allocates frequency ranges within the 800- to 900- MHz spectrum to cellular telephones. Signals cover an area called a cell. Signals are passed into adjacent cells as the user moves to another cell. The analog service of AMPS has been updated to include digital service.
- Agent
- A program used in DDoS attacks that sends malicious traffic to hosts based on the instructions of a handler.
- Alert
- Notification that a specific attack has been directed at the information system of an organization.
- Anonymity
- Anonymity is the act of being anonymous. To provide anonymity, a...
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