Appendix C Glossary of Terms Related to the SSCP

6to4 Transition mechanism for migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. It allows systems to use IPv6 to communicate if their traffic has to transverse an IPv4 network.

Absolute addresses Hardware addresses used by the CPU.

Abstraction The capability to suppress unnecessary details so the important, inherent properties can be examined and reviewed.

Accepted ways for handling risk Accept, transfer, mitigate, avoid.

Access The flow of information between a subject and an object.

Access control matrix A table of subjects and objects indicating what actions individual subjects can take upon individual objects.

Access control model An access control model is a framework that dictates how subjects access objects. ...

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