Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure

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:

Audit

An independent examination of records, actions, and activities to assess the adequacy of security controls and to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures.

Business continuity planning

A system or methodology to create a plan for how an organization will resume partially or completely interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or disruption occurs. The goal is to keep critical functions operational.

Clipping level

The point at which an alarm threshold or trigger occurs.

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