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Parent topics
- Cryptography [r]: A branch of mathematics concerned with obscuring information and then controlling who can retrieve the information. [e]
- Security policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Communications security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extranet [r]: A predefined set of networked computers, under the control of different enterprises, that can communicate with one another for well-defined, secure application processing. [e]
- Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world [e]
- Internet Protocol security architecture [r]: A structure and set of abstract techniques for implementing various security features, according to the requirements of a specific security policy, in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [e]
- Intranet [r]: A set of networked computers, under one administration, which can only communicate with one another. [e]
- Secure Sockets Layer [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Auditing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Internet [r]: International "network of networks" that connects computers together through the Internet Protocol Suite and supports applications like Email and the World Wide Web. [e]
- Risk analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virtual private network [r]: A communications system that interconnects one or more customer-defined set of sites with routed, data link, or physical connectivity, mapped through an underlying customer-owned or provider-provisioned backbone. It may provided connectivity alone, or connectivity with guarantees of security and quality of service. [e]
