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Prince's-Feathernountall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purpleverified
Prince's-Plumenountall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purpleverified
Princess FeathernounMWEannual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowersverified
Princewoodnounlarge tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable woodverified
Principal Accrediting AuthoritynounMWESenior official with authority and responsibility for all intelligence systems within an agency.RoleRestrictedCUI
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.IdentityRegulatedCUI
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 .)RequirementInternal
Principlenoun(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)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.Requirement
Principle of least privilege/accessnounMWEControls used to allow the least privilege access needed to complete a taskControl
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.ControlRegulated
Prionnoun(microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acidverified
prior tonounMWEThis limits a Control or Mandate's secondary verb to be put into play before the event takes place.RequirementRegulated
prioritynounA category based on impact and urgency used to identify the relative importance of an incident, problem, or change and the required time for action to be taken. For example, the SLA may state that priority 2 incidents must be resolved within 12 hours.Metric
Priority ProcessingnounMWEAny operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated meansProcessRegulatedPII
Priorynounreligious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioressverified
Prismnouna polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces and whose lateral faces are parallelogramsverified
Prismatoidnouna polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planesverified
Prismoidnouna prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelogramsverified
Prisonnouna correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishmentverified
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
PrivacynounThe rights and obligations of individuals and organizations concerning the collection, creation, use, retention, disclosure and destruction of PI.Requirement
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.EventRegulatedPII
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.ArtifactRegulatedPII
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.ArtifactConfidentialPII
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.ArtifactRegulatedPII
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.Organizational FunctionRegulatedPII
Privacy SystemnounMWECommercial encryption system that affords telecommunications limited protection to deter a casual listener, but cannot withstand a technically competent cryptanalytic attack.SystemRegulated
Privacy-By-DesignnounEmbedding privacy measures and privacy enhancing technologies directly into the design of information technologies and systems.ControlRegulated
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.CapabilityRegulatedPII
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)Network
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.System
Private EnterprisenounMWEan economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine pricesverified
Private FoundationnounMWEa charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the publicverified