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  1. protected distribution system (PDS) [A] wireline or fiber-optic distribution system used to transmit unencrypted classified national security information through an area of lesser…
  2. Protected Forest Root Domain (PFRD) Contains critical forest-wide management groups and users as well as critical forest-wide services.
  3. protected frequency A frequency that is not to be deliberately jammed by friendly forces, usually during a specified period. [From Weik '89]
  4. protected statement A statement within the try clause of a try statement.
  5. Protection For purposes of the National System of MPAs, must have existing laws or regulations that are designed and applied to afford the site with increased…
  6. protection channel The channel allocated to transport the working traffic during diversity routing.
  7. protection equipment Type 2 product or data encryption standard equipment that the National Security Agency has endorsed to meet applicable standards for the protection of…
  8. protection interval (PI) In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the period between changes in the time-of-day portion of the time-varying randomization data…
  9. protection level The Microsoft implementation of an integrity level. In particular, a protection level, refers to an integrity label that contains only level information…
  10. protection mapping Information that relates a protection requirement to a security transformation that is used to satisfy the specification. [After X9.41]
  11. protection philosophy An informal description of the overall design of a system that delineates each of the protection mechanisms employed.
  12. Protection Priorities The aggregated value for each impact point prediction specifying the order of protection.
  13. protection profile (PP) An implementation-independent set of security requirements for a family or category of targets of evaluation (TOEs) that meet specified consumer needs.
  14. protection profile family Privileges that allow an entity to act on behalf of another entity [ECMA138].
  15. protection ratio The minimum value of the wanted-to-unwanted signal ratio, usually expressed in decibels, at the receiver input determined under specified conditions such…
  16. protection ring One of a hierarchy of privileged modes of an information system (IS) that gives certain access rights to user programs and processes that are authorized…
  17. protection switching (PS) A feature of a transmission entity that enables data on a failed facility to be moved to an alternate facility.
  18. protection-critical portion of the TCB Those portions of the TCB whose normal function is to deal with the control of access between subjects and objects [TCSEC].
  19. Protective Distribution System Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g.
  20. protective packaging [In INFOSEC,] packaging techniques for COMSEC material that discourage penetration, reveal a penetration has occurred or was attempted, or inhibit viewing…
  21. protective storage use of special fire-resistant and environmentally controlled records protection equipment and vaults designed for the protection of the media being stored
  22. protective technologies Special tamper-evident features and materials employed for the purpose of detecting tampering and deterring attempts to compromise, modify, penetrate…
  23. protector In telecommunications systems, a device used to protect facilities and equipment from abnormally high voltages or currents.
  24. Proto Prototype. 236
  25. protocol An action plan for a clinical trial. The plan states what the study will do, how, and why.
  26. protocol abnormality In ISDN, a protocol event (a protocol error or other event) that indicates that a potential trouble condition exists on the ISDN interface.
  27. Protocol Analysis agent The underlying agent that is used by the Sender Reputation feature in Exchange Server 2007.
  28. protocol converter A functional unit that uses a specified algorithm to translate a bit stream from one protocol to another, for interoperation.
  29. Protocol Data Unit A unit of data specified in a protocol and consisting of protocol information and, possibly, user data.
  30. protocol data unit (PDU) Information that is delivered as a unit among peer entities of a network and that may contain control information, address information, or data. 2.
  31. protocol discriminator (PD) field The first octet of the packet header that identifies the protocol used to transport the frame. [T1.509-1995]
  32. Protocol Entity Entity that follows a set of rules and formats (semantic and syntactic) that determines the communication behavior of other entities.
  33. Protocol farm A collection of virtual servers that are used as the primary connection point for users in an organization.
  34. protocol hierarchy In open systems architecture, the distribution of network protocol among the various layers of the network. [From Weik '89]
  35. Protocol Run An instance of the exchange of messages between a claimant and a verifier in a defined authentication protocol that results in the authentication (or…
  36. protocol translator In a communications system, the collection of hardware, software, firmware, or any combination of these, that is required or used to convert the protocols…
  37. protocol-control information The queries and replies among communications equipment to determine the respective capabilities of each end of the communications link. 2.
  38. prototype An optional part of a "subroutine" declaration telling the Perl compiler how many and what flavor of arguments may be passed as "actual arguments", so…
  39. provenance The geographical and/or genetic origin of an individual.
  40. provisioned IOPS A storage option designed to deliver fast, predictable, and consistent I/O performance.
  41. Provisioning Provisioning is the act of putting a grid component into the active state so that it is available to a consumer of the service or resource it supplies.
  42. proximal tolerance The minimum distance in ground units separating all point locations on the horizontal plane.
  43. Proximity A measure of how close words are to one another. A page which has words near one another may be deemed to be more likely to satisfy a search query…
  44. Proximity boosting Documents that contain the query terms closer together are ranked higher than documents that contain these terms distributed throughout the document.
  45. Proximity search An extension to Boolean searching, this technique checks the position of terms and only matches those within the specified distance.
  46. Proxy If you own common stock in a US corporation, you have the right to vote on certain company policies and elect the board of directors by casting a proxy…
  47. Proxy Agent A proxy agent is a software application running on a firewall or on a dedicated proxy server that is capable of filtering a protocol and routing it to…
  48. proxy certificate A short lived certificate issued using a EEC. A proxy certificate typically has the same effective subject as the EEC that issued it and can thus be used…
  49. proxy credentials The combination of a proxy certificate and its corresponding private key. GSI typically stores proxy credentials in /tmp/x509up_u<uid> , where <uid> is…
  50. proxy mode The default mode of operation for NetCache in which the cache serves all users who set up their browsers to use NetCache as their proxy.
  51. proxy server A server that receives requests intended for another server and that acts on the client's behalf (as the client's proxy) to obtain the requested service.
  52. PRP Personnel Reliability Program (ILS term).
  53. PRR Production Readiness Review.
  54. PRS See primary reference source.
  55. PS (1) Physical Security. (2) Product Service.
  56. PSA A substance produced by the prostate. It may be found in higher levels in the blood of men who have prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia…
  57. PSAC Presidents Science Advisory Committee.
  58. PSC Principle Subordinate Command.
  59. PSCC Physical Security Control Center.
  60. PSD Power System Demonstrator.
  61. PSE Peculiar Support Element.
  62. pseudo bit-error ratio See PBER.
  63. pseudo node A node where two, and only two, arcs intersect, or a single arc that connects with itself.
  64. pseudo parameter A predefined setting, such as AWS:StackName that can be used in AWS CloudFormation templates without having to declare them.
  65. pseudofunction A construct that sometimes looks like a function but really isn't. Usually reserved for "lvalue" modifiers like my, for "context" modifiers like scalar…
  66. pseudohash A reference to an array whose initial element happens to hold a reference to a hash.
  67. pseudoliteral An "operator" that looks something like a "literal", such as the output-grabbing operator, `command`.
  68. Pseudonym A subscriber name that has been chosen by the subscriber that is not verified as meaningful by identity proofing.
  69. pseudorandom noise Noise that satisfies one or more of the standard tests for statistical randomness.
  70. pseudorandom number generator A device that produces a stream of unpredictable, unbiased, and usually independent bits. 2.
  71. Pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) An algorithm that produces a sequence of bits that are uniquely determined from an initial value called a seed.
  72. pseudorandom number sequence An ordered set of numbers that has been determined by some defined arithmetic process but is effectively a random number sequence for the purpose for…
  73. Psi Pounds of pressure per square inch.
  74. PSK Abbreviation for phase-shift keying.
  75. PSM Portable Space Model.
  76. PSN Packet Switching Node.
  77. PSO An Active Directory object that is stored in the Password Settings Container. The Password Settings object holds the attributes of a certain fine-grained…
  78. psophometer An instrument that provides a visual indication of the audible effects of disturbing voltages of various frequencies.
  79. psophometric voltage Circuit noise voltage measured with a psophometer that includes a CCIF-1951 weighting network.
  80. psophometric weighting A noise weighting established by the International Consultative Committee for Telephony (CCIF, which became CCITT and, more recently, ITU-T), designated…
  81. psophometrically weighted dBm See dBm(psoph), dBm0p.
  82. PSP Program Support Plan.
  83. PSRR Preliminary System Requirements Review.
  84. PSS (1) Passive Sensor System. (2) Passive Surveillance Sensor (Project 1106 term).
  85. PSSC Preliminary System Security Concept.
  86. PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
  87. PSTN (public service telephone network) The public service telephone network (PSTN) is the traditional, land-line based system for exchanging phone calls.
  88. PSU Power supply unit. The replaceable device that supplies power to a NetApp appliance.
  89. PSW Packet Switching.
  90. PSYOP Psychological Operations.
  91. PsyOps Psychological Operations.
  92. PTBT Partial Test Ban Treaty.
  93. PTDB Problem Tracking Data Base.
  94. PTE Patent Term Extension -- see MPEP 2700 for more -- see PTE Calculation for more
  95. PTF Abbreviation for patch and test facility.
  96. PTI Pacific Telecom, Incorporated.
  97. PTM Abbreviation for pulse-time modulation.
  98. PTO Patent and Trademark Office, former designation for USPTO also a type of form designation for forms generated by the USPTO (as in PTO-892)
  99. PTP (Pass-Through-Port) allows cartridges to be passed between StorageTek robotic units.
  100. PTPM Product Transition Procedure Manual.

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