Glossary
- 3DES
See Triple-DES (3DES).
- 802.11
See IEEE 802.11.
- acceptable use policy
Agreed-upon principles set forth by a company to govern how the employees of that company may use resources such as computers and Internet access.
- access control
The means of giving or restricting user access to network resources. This is usually accomplished through the use of an access control list (ACL).
- access control list (ACL)
A list of rights that an object has to resources in the network.
- accountability
The act of being responsible for an item. The administrator is often accountable for the network and the resources on it.
- acknowledgment (ACK)
A message confirming that a data packet was received. This occurs at the Transport layer of the OSI model.
- ACL
See access control ...
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