Chapter 4: Terms

• BSA- business software alliance
• CSS- content scramble system
• DRM- Digital rights management
• DVD- digital versatile disc
• IPR- intellectual property rights
• NDA- non-disclosure agreements
• NFC- Near field communications
• PM- private message
• Conceptual resources- are non-tangible and considered valuable for what they represent
• Copyright- a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to the creator of an original work
• data scrambling- done to hide sensitive information from unauthorized users
• digital rights - pertain to the permission of individuals to legitimately perform actions involving the use of a computer
• Digital rights management - used to describe to the process by which the author or publisher of a work exerts his right to control what the purchaser of work is entitled to do
• Facts- considered relevant truths which have been validated and identified
• Information- refers to processed data
• Information control- allowing those who have appropriate authority to access to and use of information on the basis of the authority that they holf
• Intellectual Property - a number of distinct types of intangible assets for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized
• Knowledge - refers to useful information
• Metadata- used to identify the owner's name, author and date of purchase
• Patent- a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for public disclosure
• Personal data breach- a subset of a security breach that actually leads to accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure
• Scrambling- accomplished by the addition of components to the original signal or the changing of some important components of the orginal signal
• Security incident - an event occurrence that affects or tends to affect data protection
• Software piracy - the unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software
• Trade secret- the term used for any method, formula, device or any information that gives the business a unique competitive advantage
• Trademark- a distinctive signs used by an individual, business organization or other legal entity to identify product to consumers