Technology terms starting with I

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Information Architecture Designing, categorizing, organizing, and structuring content in a useful and meaningful way.
Information Architecture (IA) A description of the information that is needed to support command and control decision making and battle management, where it comes from, the processing…
Information Assurance Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and…
information bit See user information bit.
information digit(s) A single-digit data element in the 7-digit format that is outpulsed by the network to indicate the numbering plan digit (NPD) and CESID (caller's…
information extraction A type of concept extraction that automatically recognizes significant vocabulary items, such as names, terms, and expressions, in text documents.
information feedback The return of received data to the source, usually for the purpose of checking the accuracy of transmission by comparison with the original data.
information field In data transmission, a field assigned to contain user information. Note: The contents of the information field are not interpreted at the link level.
information flow See Covert Channel [CESG].
information flow control [In COMSEC, a] procedure to ensure that information transfers within an information system (IS) are not made from a higher security level object to an…
information hiding The practice of ensuring that only as much information is revealed about the implementation of a class as is strictly required.
information integrity In a frame-relaying network, the condition when all frames relayed by the network satisfy the frame check sequence check. [After T1.606-1990]
information label The item visible at the POSIX.6/D13.1 interface that is used for associating labeling information with object data.
information label floating The operation whereby one information label is combined with another information label.
information label policy The implementation-defined policy that determines to what degree information labels associated with data are automatically adjusted as data flows through…
information management The application of planning and standards to the creation, use, retrieval, retention, conversion, disposition, and preservation of information resources…
information origination/termination equipment Equipment used to input into or receive output from the telecommunications network. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]
Information Owner Official with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the controls for its generation…
information processing Synonym data processing.
information processing center (IPC) A facility staffed and equipped for processing and distributing information. Note: An IPC may be geographically distributed.
information provider A "helper" software component that collects or formats resource information, for use in WS MDS by an aggregator source or by a WSRF service when creating…
information rate For a frame relay logical connection, the average number of end user bits transferred per second, in one direction, across a user-network interface as…
Information Resources Information and related resources, such as personnel, equipment, funds, and information technology.
Information Resources Management The planning, budgeting, organizing, directing, training, promoting, controlling, and management activities associated with the burden, collection…
Information Retrieval The field of science based on sorting or searching through large data sets to find relevant information.
Information Security The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to…
Information Security (INFOSEC) Those measures and administrative procedures for identifying, controlling, and protecting against unauthorized disclosure of classified information or…
Information Security Policy Aggregate of directives, regulations, rules, and practices that prescribes how an organization manages, protects, and distributes information.
information service A tool that enables Exchange and foreign systems to exchange mail. [Exchange 5.5]
information services See information systems (IS).
Information Sharing The requirements for information sharing by an IT system with one or more other IT systems or applications, for information sharing to support multiple…
information source Synonym source user.
information store An Exchange core component that stores users' mailboxes and folders. See also public information store, private information store. [Exchange 5.5]
Information Store Viewer A tool that shows the properties available for each message, how you can use them, and in what format they appear.
information superhighway Synonym National Information Infrastructure.
information system A system which provides input, storage, processing, communications, output, and control functions in relation to information and data.
Information System Owner Official responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, or operation and maintenance of an information system.
Information System Owner (or Program Manager) Official responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, or operation and maintenance of an information system.
Information System Security Officer (ISSO) Individual assigned responsibility by the senior agency information security officer, authorizing official, management official, or information system…
information systems security (INFOSEC and/or ISS) [The] protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing or transit, and…
Information Technology Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement…
information technology (IT) The branch of technology devoted to (a) the study and application of data and the processing thereof; i.e.
information technology security evaluation criteria (ITSEC) The European ITSEC represent the harmonized evaluation criteria for secure products and systems for use within the European Community (EC).
information technology systems (IT Systems) Synonymous with EIP Systems (qv) [CESG].
information transfer The process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink.
information transfer capability The capability associated with the transfer of different types of information through the ISDN.
information transfer interface Establishment of a communication (signaling) path and any required bearer path between the RPT/RT and the radio port.
information transfer mode The operational mode for transferring (transportation and switching) user information through the ISDN.
information transfer rate The transfer of digital information between two access points or reference points.
Information Type A specific category of information (e.g., privacy, medical, proprietary, financial, investigative, contractor sensitive, security management), defined by…
information-bearer channel A channel capable of transmitting all the information required for communication, such as user data, synchronizing sequences, and control signals.
information-transfer phase In an information-transfer transaction, the phase during which user information blocks are transferred from the source user to a destination user.
information-transfer transaction A coordinated sequence of user and telecommunications system actions that cause information present at a source user to become present at a destination…
informational announcement An audio message that is played when a user first dials in to a Unified Messaging system that describes some temporary condition of interest to all users.
informational value The value of records that derive form the information they contain. See also administrative value, evidential value.
INFORMIX A relational database management system to which ARC/INFO has access through the DATABASE INTEGRATOR.
INFOSEC Acronym for information systems security.
Infrared The range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 700 nm, just longer than red in the visible spectrum, to 1 mm, on the border of the microwave…
Infrared (IR) Electromagnetic radiations of wavelength between the longest visible red (7,000 Angstroms or 7 x 10E4 millimeter) and about 1 millimeter.
Infrared (IR) Electro-Optics Technologies/techniques employed by optical sensors in the wavelength spectrum slightly longer than visible but shorter than radio. 139
Infrared Imagery That imagery produced as a result of sensing electromagnetic radiations emitted or reflected from a given target surface in the infrared position of the…
Infrared Sensor A sensor designed to detect the electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength region of 1 to 40 microns.
infrastructure An basic underlying framework or features of a system.
Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) A cloud computing service model that delivers computing, storage and network resources to users via the cloud.
infrastructure assurance Preemptive or reactive risk-management techniques designed to increase confidence that disruption of a system will be minimized if its critical…
Infrastructure Master Manages two critical tasks: Update of references from objects in its domain to objects in other domains and update and modification of group members…
infrastructure protection Preemptive or reactive risk-management techniques designed to prevent disruption of a system after its critical infrastructure is attacked.
ingest The process of moving records into the ERA system.
Ingestion rate The number of documents per unit time that an enterprise search platform can process.
INGRES A relational database management system to which ARC/INFO has access through the DATABASE INTEGRATOR.
Ingress Filtering The process of blocking incoming packets that use obviously false IP addresses, such as reserved source addresses.
inheritance The transmission of genes and phenotypes from generation to generation.
inheritance hierarchy The relationship between super classes and sub classes is known as an inheritance hierarchy.
inhibiting signal A signal that prevents the occurrence of an event. Note: An inhibiting signal may be used, for example, to disable an AND gate, thus preventing any…
initial alignment A procedure used to qualify a signaling link for carriage of signaling traffic, either for the first time or after failure has occurred. [T1.226-1992]
Initial Configuration Tasks A window that, by default, opens immediately after operating system installation is complete and each time a member of the Administrators group logs on to…
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) A common data format used for transfer of CAD data. IGES files can be converted to and from ARC/INFO coverages.
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) The first attainment of the capability to employ effectively a weapon, item of equipment, or system of approved specific characteristics, and which is…
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) All operational test and evaluation conducted on production or production representative articles, to support the decision to proceed beyond low-rate…
initial system security policy A preliminary statement of the basic security-relevant facts about a system [CESG].
initial text sequence In cryptography, a 64-bit binary sector that may be attached to the beginning of a message. [After X9.23]
initialization parameter A parameter that initializes the context associated with a servlet.
initialization vector In encryption, a nonsecret binary vector used as the initializing input algorithm for the encryption of a plaintext block sequence to increase security by…
Initialization Vector (IV) A vector used in defining the starting point of an encryption process within a cryptographic algorithm.
initialize Setting the state of a cryptographic logic prior to key generation, encryption, or other operating mode. [INFOSEC-99]
initializer A block defined at the outermost level of a class - similar to a method without a header.
initiating MSC The mobile switching center (MSC) (switch) that obtains routing information (i.e., LRN). [T1.708-1998]
Initiator The entity that initiates an authentication exchange.
initiator access control decision information (initiator ADI) ADI associated with the initiator [10181-3].
initiator access control information (initiator ACI) Access control information relating to the initiator [10181-3].
injection fiber Synonym launching fiber.
injection laser diode (ILD) A laser that uses a forward-biased semiconductor junction as the active medium.
ink vapor recording Recording in which vaporized ink particles are deposited directly upon the record medium.
Inktomi Search engine which pioneered the paid inclusion business model. Inktomi was bought by Yahoo! at the end of 2002. Internal Navigation (see Navigation)
inline An image on a web page that is displayed directly to the viewer rather than being made available only as a hot link.
Inlinks A synonym for back links. Popularized by Yahoo!
INMARAT International Maritime Satellite (a UHF communications satellite).
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite (a UHF communications satellite).
inner class A class defined inside an enclosing class or method. We use the term to refer to non-static nested classes.
Inoperative Is where an individual circuit will not function in service (e.g., open, shorted) or cannot transmit address signaling in either direction