Key Terms
The following acronyms and terms are used in this chapter. For the explanation and definition purpose of this chapter, these acronyms and terms are defined as follows:
- Access creep
The result of employees moving from one position to another within an organization without losing the privileges of the old position but gaining the additional access of the new position. Thus, over time, the employee builds up much more access than he or she should have.
- ACL
A table or list stored by a router to control access to and from a network by helping the device determine whether to forward or drop packets that are entering or exiting it.
- Base64
A coding process that is used to encode data in some email applications. Because it is not true encryption, ...
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