Glossary terms from IT security

Access Control Entries : The individual access permissions per object that make up the ACL Access Control List (ACL) : It is a way of defining permissions or authorizations for objects Accounting : Keeping records of what resources and services your users access or what they did when they were using your systems Auditing : It involves reviewing records to ensure that nothing is out of the ordinary Authentication : A crucial application for cryptographic hash functions Authentication server (AS) : It includes the user ID of the authenticating user Authorization : It pertains to describing what the user account has access to or doesn't have access to Bind : It is how clients authenticate to the server Biometric authentication : Authentication that uses Biometric data Certificate Revocation List (CRL) : A means to distribute a list of certificates that are no longer valid Client certificates : They operate very similarly to server certificates but are presented by clients and allow server