TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT

The Basics: A Glossary of Federal Technology

• The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
  That's a question many people have been asking ever since President George W. Bush issued National Security ...
• Networx
  The largest government telecommunications program in history, Networx is a 10-year governmentwide contract valued at...
• Cybersecurity
  Cybersecurity is the protection of all things Internet -- from the networks themselves to the information stored in ...
• Information Sharing
  Information sharing is one of those rare technology terms that actually sound like what they mean. Information ...
• Service-Oriented Architecture
  Although it has been discussed in the information technology industry for a decade or more, service-oriented ...
• Identity Management
  One way to think about identity management is by imagining an enormous blueprint of an office building. It shows the...
• Enterprise Risk Management
  Enterprise risk management, or ERM as it is called, uses an integrated or holistic approach to understand and manage...
• IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge
  First, here's the technical definition: The IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge, or EBK, is an established ...
• Telework
  Performing your job from a location other than a traditional office, away from the traditional supervision of ...
• Internet Protocol Version 6
  IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol version 6. It also is referred to as the Next Generation Internet. IPv6 will ...
• FISMA
  During the 1990s, the government transitioned from mainframe computers to networked computing, connecting federal ...
• Virtualization
  Virtualization is software that separates an application from the underlying physical hardware on which it runs. It ...
• Continuity of Operations
  Continuity of operations are guidelines that ensure that the government can carry on all essential functions in case of ...
• Performance-Based Contracting
  Performance-based acquisition was designed to help agencies reap the benefits of private sector innovation. ...
• Lines of Business
  When corporations merge, executives routinely consolidate functions that are duplicative. These functions include ...
• HSPD-12
  Universal identification standards streamline access to buildings and computer networks, but not without some glitches...
• Encryption
  Encryption is the process of turning computer data into code that can be read only by someone with a key to the ...
• Business Intelligence
  Business intelligence uses software programs to analyze huge amounts of electronic data collected by a federal ...