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InfoSec Ch 10
Principles of Information Security 3e
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Undergraduate 2
03/02/2010

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Project Plan
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A program that delivers instructions to indevifuals for carrying out the implementation stage of the security systems development life cycle
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Deliverable
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A completed document or program module that can serve either as the beginning point for a later task or as an element in the finished product.
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Resource
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An individual or skill set whose function is detailed in a project plan.
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Milestone
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A specific point in the project plan when a task and its action stops are complete and have a noticable impact on the progress of the project plan as a whole.
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Predecessors
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In a project plan, that tasks or action steps that come before the sppecific task at hand.
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Successors
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In a project plan, that tasks or action steps that come after the task at hand
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Cost Benefit Analysis
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Synonymous with economic feasability study. The comparison of the cost of protecting an asset with the worth of the asset or the costs of the compromise of an asset.
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Negative Feedback Loop
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Synonymouse with cybernetic loop. A process to manage a project that ensures that progress is measured periodically and that measured results are compred to expected results.
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Direct Changeover
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A modification to work pratices that involves stopping the old method and beginning the new.
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Phased Implementation
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An approach to implementing new security systems that involes roling out a piece of a new system accross the entire organization
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Pilot Implementation
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The changing of work pratices that involves implementing all security improvments in a single office, department, or division, and resolving issues within that group before expanding to the rest of the organization.
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Paralel Operations
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A method of modifying work practices that involves using the new methods alongside the old methods.
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Bull's eye method
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A proven method for prioritizing a program of complex cange whose fundamental concept is that issues are addressed from the general to the specific and that the focus is on systemic solutions instead of indicidual problems.
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Technology Governance
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A complex process that an organization uses to manage the impacts and costs caused by technology implementation, innovtion, and obsolescense.
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Accredidation
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Authorizes an IT system to process, store, or transmit information.
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Certification
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The comprehensive evaluation of the technical and nontechnical security controls of an IT system to support the accredidation process that establishs the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements.
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