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Reliability Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.

Reliability is an attribute of any computer-related component (software, or hardware, or a network, for example) that consistently performsaccording to its specifications and can be trustworthy.

Integrity Internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data.


Integrity, in terms of data and network security, is the assurance that information can only be accessed or modified by those authorized to do so.

Security
In information technology, security is the protection of information assets through the use of technology, processes, and training.

Refers to techniques for ensuring that data stored in a computer cannot be read or compromised by any individuals without authorization.

Privacy The state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion, with the creation of an users name. Freedom from unauthorized intrusion in the users personal data, by the use of an account.

Anonymity The quality or state of being (of unknown authorship or origin), through an internet account.

Anonymity refers to the state of being nameless or unexposed in a webpage, with a password; people cannot identified you from any source.

Intellectual Property Refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. Results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation.

Authenticity The quality of being authentic (of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine). The process of ensuring that a message received is the same message that was sent and has not been tampered with or altered.

Digital division

-A term used to describe the discrepancy between people who have access to and the resources to use new information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and people who do not have the resources and access to the technology. -The Digital Divide, or the digital split, is a social issue referring to the differing amount of information between those who have access to the Internet (specially broadband access) and those who do not have access.

Equality of access - All people should and must have equal balance of access Internet. - All population must have a same treatment about the ease of use to technology.

Surveillance
-Computer surveillance is the act of performing surveillance (the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting.) of computer activity, and of data stored on a hard drive or being transferred over the Internet. -"Computer surveillance" often refers to a type of spying that tracks all activity on a computer. The term also might refer to the use of a computer to monitor security cameras and audio feeds.

GLOBALIZATION

-Globalization is the tendency of technologies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen.
-Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities
and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

- The definition of cultural diversity spans far wider than ethnicity where technology is concerned; it is the quality of diverse or different cultures, which affects the use of IT Systems in the workplace and encompasses a number of factors, ranging from age and generation to socioeconomic status and income. - Many types of cultures and religions, connected through a technological communication, but must of times affected by racial discrimination.

Policies

- The rules, laws and practices for computer network access, saved in a security policy. -The rules and regulations set by the organization, that determine the type of internal and external information resources employees can access, the kinds of programs they may install on their own computers as well as their authority for reserving network resources.

Standards

-Computer hardware and software standards are technical principles instituted for compatibility and interoperability between software, systems, platforms and devices. - Definitions or formats that have been approved by a recognized standards organization or is accepted as a de facto standard by the industry; standards exist for programming languages, operating systems, data formats, communications protocols, and electrical interfaces.

Protocols

- Set of rules or language use by computer and networking devices to communicate with one another. - An agreed-upon format for transmitting data between two devices.

People and machines -The influx of machines in a humans daily life, and the growing dependence and relationship between the two. -How machines are becoming more present in the average humans daily life, and on the reliance humans have with technology and the relationship.

Digital citizenship -A digital citizen commonly refers to a person utilizing information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government participation. -Digital Citizenship is the concept of educating students (and all technology users) about how to use technology appropriately.

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