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relying party In a federated environment, this is the party that relies on

security claims authenticated by an identity provider.

rich Internet application (RIA) An RIA is a web application with an
extensive feature set rivaling that of traditional desktop software.

risk management This is an analysis of items that have a potential
negative impact on an organization and the possible mitigating strategies.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) The SOA is a set of American laws whereby
organizations must prove they have control of their assets in order to verify
the accuracy of financial records.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) SSL is a security protocol that protects
network transmissions using encryption and digital signatures.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) SAML is an XML
method of exchanging user or computer authentication and authorization
messages between identity providers and relying parties.

service level agreement (SLA) An SLA is a contractual document

stipulating the terms surrounding cloud provider services, including the
termination of cloud services.

single sign-on (SSO) SSO passes authentication information from a single
authentication sequence to computing services that would each normally
require their own separate authentication.

social engineering This is the manipulation of people to disclose
confidential information.

Software as a Service (SaaS) This type of provider makes application

software available over a network any time, from any place, using any
device.

storage area network (SAN) A SAN is a communication network
dedicated to transmitting disk input and output traffic.

time-sharing This is when multiple users consume computing resources at
the same time on the same system using independent computing sessions.

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