Definitions beginning with U

User Initialization - permalink - collapse

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A stage in the lifecycle of keying material; the process whereby a user initializes its cryptographic application (e.g., installing and initializing software and hardware).
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Browse Related Terms: Automated Password Generator, FIPS Approved Security Method, Key Generation Material, Nonce, Pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), Public Seed, Random Number Generator (RNG), SALT, Secret Seed

user interface - permalink - collapse

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The portion of a program with which a user interacts. Types of user interfaces include command-line interfaces, menu-driven interfaces, and graphical user interfaces.
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Browse Related Terms: command-line program, command-line tool, Recovery Console, Server Manager command line tool, ServerManagerCmd.exe, UI

User Interface Privilege Isolation - permalink - collapse

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A window manager subsystem that blocks applications at a lower UI privilege level from sending messages to or hooking threads belonging to processes with a higher UI privilege level.
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Browse Related Terms: privilege isolation, UI Privilege Isolation, UI privilege level, UIPI, user interface privilege level, Windows Resource Protection, WRP

user interface privilege level - permalink - collapse

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The integrity level that is stored in the access token of a process and that is used by the UI Privilege Isolation (UIPI) feature to determine if an application or process is permitted to send Windows messages to another application or process.
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Browse Related Terms: privilege isolation, UI Privilege Isolation, UI privilege level, UIPI, User Interface Privilege Isolation, Windows Resource Protection, WRP

User interface (UI) - permalink - collapse

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The end-user application linking a person to a computer program.Â Most modern applications leverage a Graphical UI (GUI) to accept input and display information in various forms.
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Browse Related Terms: access control list, administrative role, enterprise search administrator, Search Engine, User agent

user line - permalink - collapse

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Synonym loop.
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Browse Related Terms: access line, access loop, customer service unit (CSU), local line, Loop, universal digital loop carrier, working loop

user locale - permalink - collapse

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Setting that determines formats and sort orders for date, time, currency, and so on. Also known as regional settings.
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Browse Related Terms: Ascending Order, Descending Order, locale ID (LCID), Provision, stemming

user mapping - permalink - collapse

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A method of assigning identities between UNIX and NTFS, where one identity is mapped to another.
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Browse Related Terms: Authentication, CIFS authentication mode, CIFS cred, CIFS share, cred, NTLM credential, share, UNIX cred, WAFL credential cache (WCC), WCC

user-network interface (UNI) - permalink - collapse

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The point of demarcation between a common carrier's facilities and customer's installation, which demarcation establishes both the technical interface and the division of operational responsibility. In this context, "customer" refers to the end-user. [J.Beaty FAA] 2. The term used to refer to the network interface (NI) as well as to interfaces within the customer installation (CI). [T1.640-1996]
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Browse Related Terms: demarc, demarcation point (demarc), internetwork interface (INI), network interface, network node (NN), network terminating interface (NTI)

User Operational Evaluation System (UOES) - permalink - collapse

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Prototypical system developed and tested as part of the early phases of the development process. A UOES has two objectives: (1) testing, evaluation, and training for a system proceeding through the normal acquisition process; and (2) contingency defense capability should the need arise prior to completion of the normal acquisition cycle.
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Browse Related Terms: Development Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Force Development Test and Evaluation, Joint Test and Evaluation, Joint Test and Evaluation Program, Life Cycle of a Weapon System, Operational Assessment, STINFO Center, Technical Evaluation, Test and Evaluation (T&E)

user overhead information - permalink - collapse

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See overhead information.
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Browse Related Terms: DCA, Information, information bit, intelligible crosstalk, matte, MIS, reference model, system overhead information, user information block

user part - permalink - collapse

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A functional part of the common channel signaling system that transfers signaling messages via the message transfer part. Different types of user parts exist (e.g., for telephone and data services), each of which is specified to a particular use of the signaling system. [T1.110-1987]
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Browse Related Terms: Accessibility, FLASH message, mandatory fixed part, mandatory variable part, message type code, signaling end point, signaling message distribution

user privacy - permalink - collapse

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Protection of information about users from uninvited and possibly illegal access. [T1.Rpt34-1994]
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Browse Related Terms: data-dependent protection, linking protection (LP), protection equipment, protection mapping, protection profile family, selective field protection, sneak current protection, write protection label, zone of protection

user profile - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > E-mail > Microsoft Email > Microsoft Exchange > Microsoft Exchange 5.5

A group of settings that provides the operating system with information about a client's configuration. [Exchange 5.5]
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Browse Related Terms: Administrator program, delegate, Fault Tolerance, messaging profile, multiple password policy, profile

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1. The profile that includes the service profile and contains all the data associated with the user, e.g., incoming call handling information, selection of service provider/service area coverage, service subscriptions, service parameters, etc. [T1.Rpt34-1994] 2. A description of a user, typically used for access control. [2382-pt.8] Note: A user profile may include data such as user ID, user name, password, access rights, and other attributes. [2382-pt.8] 3. A pattern of a user's activity that can be used to detect changes in the activity. [2382-pt.8] 4. Patterns of a user's activity that can show changes from normal behavior. [INFOSEC-99]
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Browse Related Terms: access period, access permission, access profile, access type, availability, boundary, failure access, network weaving, real-time reaction, secure state, surrogate access, ticket-oriented

User Profile database (_PROFDB) - permalink - collapse

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The user profile database contains all the information relating to user's profiles, including those imported from the Active Directory.
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Browse Related Terms: Activity Feed, Audience, Audiences, Default View, personal view, Privacy Level, shared view

user-provided number (UPN) - permalink - collapse

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An ISDN number, supplied completely or partially by the calling user or the redirecting user, that is associated with the calling user or the redirecting user. The UPN may also be accompanied by a subaddress. [T1.625-1993]
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Browse Related Terms: calling line identification (CLI), calling party number (CPN), network provided number (NPN), personal identification number, redirecting number (RN)

User Registration - permalink - collapse

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A stage in the lifecycle of keying material; a process whereby an entity becomes a member of a security domain.
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Browse Related Terms: Identifier, Naming Authority, Pseudonym, Verified Name

user representative - permalink - collapse

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[A] person authorized by an organization to order COMSEC keying material and interface with the keying system; providing information to key users and ensuring the correct type of key is ordered. [INFOSEC-99]
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Browse Related Terms: COMSEC boundary, COMSEC material, COMSEC system data, data transfer device, electronic key management system (EKMS), electronically generated key, key distribution center (KDC), protective packaging, protective technologies, rekeying, test key, updating

user rights - permalink - collapse

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Tasks that a user is permitted to perform on a Windows-based computer or domain. There are two types of user rights: privileges and logon rights. An example of a privilege is the right to shut down the system. An example of a logon right is the right to log on to a computer interactively. Both types are assigned by administrators to individual users or groups as part of the security settings for the computer.
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Browse Related Terms: Anonymous user access, local administrators group, network domain name, Permissions, rights, Site Membership