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NF-110
Term | Definition |
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Audit | Process which an organization's accounts and records are verified |
Business continuity | An organization's ability to function after disaster |
Compliance | Fulfilling the requirements of the law |
Consistency | Stability; Regularity |
Data | Facts and Figures |
Data Processing | Converting facts and figures into useful information |
Decision Making | Choosing among alternatives |
Hack | Unauthorizes access to a computer system |
Information | Knowledge, Facts, or Data presented in a useful form |
Information management | the process of accessing, processing. maintaining, evaluating, and disseminating knowledge, facts or data for the purpose of assisting business decision making |
Information Overload | communication that is too much and/or comes too fast to process at one time |
Management Information System (MIS) | An Integrated technology that assists with an Organization's information Management needs |
Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outsourcing organization/consultants to obtain goods or services to accomplish business objectives or perform primary business activities |
Propriety information | Private Information that belongs to an organization and cannot be Released to the public |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act | A U.S. Regulation Mandating that public business comply with specific accounting requirements |
Spam | Junk email that the recipient did not request also known as unsolicited commercial email |
Trade secret | Undisclosed information within a particular business or industry |
Virus | A computer program that downloads to your computer or network without your permission |
Wireless network | A computer network connected without the use of wires or cables |