Cyber-Career Terminology
the practice of allowing those within a community to use their own devices for work purposes.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
an address identifying where documents can be found on the internet.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A branch of morals and principles concerning behavior within an online environment.
Ethics
Video/Graphics Card
a logical identification system assigned by software to recognize a device on a network.
IP Address
the legal protection for code meant to be read by a machine.
Copyright
small files of information that a web server generates and sends to a web browser.
Cookies
The rights given to persons over the creations of their minds.
Intellectual Property Rights
A computer's main component that acts as its "control unit".
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
an electronic communications network that connects computer networks around the world.
Internet
The management of legal access to digital content.
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
an electronic document used to prove the validity of a public key.
Digitial Certificate
Law which permits limited use of copyrighted material without permission under some circumstances
Fair use doctrine
a storage device containing nonvolatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed.
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
the interconnection computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data.
Internet of Things (IoT)
business-oriented information technology that is critical to a company's operations.
Enterprise Computing
foundation of the world wide web, used to load webpages using hypertext links.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
legal rights that allow individuals to access, create, and publish digital media or use for electronic devices.
Digital Rights
a continual power system that provides automated backup electric power to a load when the input power source or mains power fails.
Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
A website that enables users to store and share their multimedia files (photos, videos, music) with others.
Media sharing site
An American character encoding standard for electronic communication.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
a communication protocol that encrypts and securely transmits information between a user's web browser and a website.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Plagiarism
physical parts of a computer, includes external devices such as a monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers.
Hardware
a set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by an organization.
Website