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TermTypeDefinitionClassificationsUpdated
Primary Health CarenounMWEhealth care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care systemverified
Primary QuillnounMWEone of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wingverified
Primary Services NodenounMWEA Key Management Infrastructure core node that provides the users’ central point of access to KMI products, services, and information.verified
Primary Sex CharacternounMWEthe genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)verified
Primary Sex CharacteristicnounMWEthe genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)verified
Primary Sexual CharacteristicnounMWEthe genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)verified
Primary Solid SolutionnounMWEa homogeneous solid that can exist over a range of component chemicalsverified
Primary Subtractive Color for LightnounMWEany of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white lightverified
Primary Subtractive Colour for LightnounMWEany of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white lightverified
Primary ToothnounMWEone of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)verified
Primary WindingnounMWEcoil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuitverified
Prime FactornounMWEthe prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantityverified
Prime Interest RatenounMWEthe interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratingsverified
Prime MeridiannounMWEmeridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)verified
Prime numbernounMWEA natural number greater than 1 that can only be divided by 1 and itself.verified
Primitive ArtnounMWEa genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artistsverified
Primordial DwarfnounMWEan achondroplastic dwarf whose small size is the result of a genetic defectverified
Primum MobilenounMWEan agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a causeverified
Princess FeathernounMWEannual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowersverified
Principal Accrediting AuthoritynounMWESenior official with authority and responsibility for all intelligence systems within an agency.verified
Principal AxisnounMWEa line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refractedverified
Principal Certification AuthoritynounMWEThe Principal Certification Authority is a CA designated by an agency to interoperate with the FBCA. An agency may designate multiple Principal CAs to interoperate with the FBCA.verified
Principal DiagonalnounMWEthe diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entryverified
principal system objectivesnounMWESystem objectives that relate to the trust services category or categories addressed by the examination and that could reasonably be expected to influence the relevant decisions of intended users. (See system objectives .)verified
Principle of EquivalencenounMWE(physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of referenceverified
Principle of least privilegenounMWEThe security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.verified
Principle of least privilege/accessnounMWEControls used to allow the least privilege access needed to complete a taskverified
Principle of Liquid DisplacementnounMWE(hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluidverified
Principle of ParsimonynounMWEthe principle that entities should not be multiplied needlesslyverified
Principle of RelativitynounMWE(physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referredverified
Principle of SuperpositionnounMWEthe displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that pointverified
Print SuppressionnounMWEEliminating the display of characters in order to preserve their secrecy.verified
prior tonounMWEThis limits a Control or Mandate's secondary verb to be put into play before the event takes place.verified
prior usernounMWEA relational security concept used to identify the source side of a resource-reuse threat: any principal — whether a human user, an assigned role, or a process acting on behalf of either — whose session has ended and whose allocated system resources (memory, cache, disk sectors, registers, etc.) have been returned to the system for reassignment. The concern is that information produced by the actions of prior users or roles may remain accessible to any current users or roles that obtain access to those shared system resources after the resources have been released back to the system. The phrase appears consistently in the object-reuse and residual-information-protection family of controls, where it anchors the threat model by naming the unintended originator of residual data, as opposed to the successor principal who must be denied access to it. This problem domain is commonly referred to as object reuse and residual information protection, covering shared resources such as registers, cache memory, main memory, and hard disks.verified
Priority ProcessingnounMWEAny operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated meansverified
Prison HousenounMWEa correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishmentverified
Prisoner of War CensorshipnounMWEmilitary censorship of communication to and from prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the armed forcesverified
Privacy breachnounMWEA data privacy breach occurs when an individual or organization breaks into systems or locations where PI was collected, created, used or stored in an unauthorized manner (without the explicit permission of the data subjects or the entity controlling or processing the data) and causes the data to be disclosed in ways that are not under the entity's policies, applicable laws or regulations.verified
privacy commitmentsnounMWEDeclarations made by management regarding the performance of a system processing personal information. Such commitments can be communicated in written agreements, standardized contracts, service-level agreements, or published statements (for example, a privacy practices statement). In addition, privacy commitments may be made on many different aspects of the service being provided.verified
Privacy Impact AssessmentnounMWEAn analysis of how information is handled: 1) to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; 2) to determine the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information in identifiable form in an electronic information system; and 3) to examine and evaluate protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks.verified
privacy noticenounMWEA written communication by entities that collect personal information, to the individuals about whom personal information is collected, about the entity's ( a ) policies regarding the nature of the information that they will collect and how that information will be used, retained, disclosed, and disposed of or anonymized and ( b ) commitment to adhere to those policies. A privacy notice also includes information about such matters as the purpose of collecting the information, the choices that individuals have related to their personal information, the security of such information, and how individuals can contact the entity with inquiries, complaints, and disputes related to their personal information. When a user entity collects personal information from individuals, it typically provides a privacy notice to those individuals.verified
Privacy programnounMWEThe organization, people, policies, procedures and preventive and detective controls placed into effect that allow a legal entity to manage and protect the PI collected from data subjects according to its agreements, business needs and applicable laws and regulations.verified
Privacy SystemnounMWECommercial encryption system that affords telecommunications limited protection to deter a casual listener, but cannot withstand a technically competent cryptanalytic attack.verified
Privacy-Enhancing TechnologynounMWEA coherent system of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) measures that protects privacy by eliminating or reducing personal data or by preventing unnecessary and/or undesired processing of personal data, all without losing the functionality of the information system.verified
Private AddressingnounMWEIANA has set aside three address ranges for use by private or non-Internet connected networks. This is referred to as Private Address Space and is defined in RFC 1918. The reserved address blocks are: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)verified
Private branch exchange (PBX)nounMWEA telephone system within an enterprise that switches calls between enterprise users on local lines while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines.verified