- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A key BLOB that contains the key of the symmetric cipher used to encrypt a file or message. The access block can only be opened with a private key.
Industry:Software
A string of characters entered by a user to verify his or her identity to a network or to a local computer or device.
Industry:Software
A security mechanism that determines which operations a user, group, service, or computer is authorized to perform on a computer or on a particular object, such as a file, printer, registry subkey, or directory service object.
Industry:Software
An entry in either a securable object\'s discretionary access control list (DACL) or an object\'s system access control list (SACL). In a DACL, the entry grants or denies permissions to a user or group. In a SACL, the entry specifies which security events to audit for a particular user or group or controls the Windows Integrity Level for the object.
Industry:Software
In Windows-based systems, a list of access control entries (ACE) that apply to an entire object, a set of the object\'s properties, or an individual property of an object, and that define the access granted to one or more security principals.
Industry:Software
A security role setting that determines for a given object type at which levels within the organization hierarchy a user can act on that object type.
Industry:Software
In Windows-based computers, a 32-bit value (a bitmask) that specifies the permissions that are assigned in an access control entry (ACE). An access mask is also part of the access request when an object is opened. The access mask in the request is compared to the access mask in each ACE to determine whether or not to grant the request.
Industry:Software
A circuit that allows one part of a computer system to send signals to another part.
Industry:Software
