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  • New Glossary Term: De-identification

    De-identification: A non-destructive process by which sensitive data (PII, PHI, Business Confidential, etc.) within a data set is removed or transformed to a degree by which one could not reconstructed the data to its original form with the goal of it being de-classified or usable for other purposes...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by ebreece on 05-16-2007
  • Re: New Glossary Term: Risk

    The problem I have encountered currently and in the past with the NIST definitions is that they blend terms together when you read through their documents, which causes a bit of confusion, even among the security professional, let along the end users or system/data owners. So, we have had to break them...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by ebreece on 05-15-2007
  • Re: New Glossary Term: Physical Controls

    [quote user="mcurphey"] I am not sure about simply adopting other glossaries ... cross-referencing and adopting terms where they make sense ... [/quote] This is really what I was getting at; as opposed to verbatim reuse of an existing body of work. I would suggest that most projects require...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by dave on 05-10-2007
  • Re: New Glossary Term: Threat

    I think this definition needs to be expanded to include a threat source. If you talk with secure software developers they have a practice called threat modeling, which is well defined by some of the big industry vendors. In terms of threat modeling developers consider "SQL Injection" a threat...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by Jason on 05-09-2007
  • Glossary Project - How To Add / Request a New Defintion

    Project Purpose It seems that naming things should be so easy and is such a fundamental requirement to human communication, yet today many information security people are still talking about one term and or using a specific definition which is interpreted by someone else as something quite different...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by mcurphey on 05-03-2007
  • Help Wanted for Glossary Project

    I have posted the Excel spreadsheet that Paul Zedeck kindly put together in the file area. The idea was to create a good reusable "Glossary of Terms" that we could all use in work. Consultants, Corporations etc can then all reference something that works for them. Like other ISM Community Projects...
    Posted to Commons (Forum) by mcurphey on 05-03-2007
  • Info Sec Glossary Temp

    This file is a raw dump of terms from various places. We can use it a a starting point to assemble a good working glossary.
    Posted to Release (FileGallery) by mcurphey on 05-03-2007
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