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Glossary
- AES
- Advanced Encryption Standard
- API
- application programming interface
- DES
- Data Encryption Standard
- DHCP
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS
- A Domain Name System (DNS) is an Internet database that translates domain names that are meaningful and recognizable by people into the numeric IP addresses that the Internet uses.
- EAP-FAST
- Extensible Authentication Protocol Flexible Authentication via
Secure Tunneling
- EAP-GTC
- Extensible Authentication Protocol Generic Token Card
- EAP-TLS
- Extensible Authentication Protocol Transport Layer Security
- EAP-TTLS
- Extensible Authentication Protocol Tunneled Transport Layer
Security
- EAP
- Extensible Authentication Protocol
- ETP
- Email Transfer Protocol
- GPO
- Group Policy Object
- GPS
- Global Positioning System
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer
- IP address
- An Internet Protocol (IP) address is an identification number that
each computer or mobile device uses when it sends or receives information over
a network, such as the Internet. This identification number identifies the
specific computer or mobile device on the network.
- IPsec
- Internet Protocol Security
- IT administration command
- An IT administration command is a command that you can send over the wireless network to protect sensitive information on a BlackBerry device or delete all BlackBerry device data.
- IT policy
- An IT policy consists of various IT policy rules that control the security features and behavior of BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, the BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager.
- IT policy rule
- An IT policy rule permits you to
customize and control the actions that BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook
tablets, the BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager can
perform.
- LEAP
- Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
- MAC
- message authentication code
- messaging server
- A messaging server sends and processes messages and provides
collaboration services, such as updating and communicating calendar
and address book information.
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- PAC
- proxy auto-configuration
- PEAP
- Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
- PIN
- personal identification number
- PKI
- Public Key Infrastructure
- PSK
- pre-shared key
- RTF
- Rich Text Format
- SAN
- subject alternative name
- S/MIME
- Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- SMS
- Short Message Service
- SQL
- Structured Query Language
- SSID
- service set identifier
- SSL
- Secure Sockets Layer
- TCP
- Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a set
of communication protocols that is used to transmit data over networks, such as
the Internet.
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security
- Triple DES
- Triple Data Encryption Standard
- UID
- unique identifier
- USB
- Universal Serial Bus
- VPN
- virtual private network
- WAP
- Wireless Application Protocol
- WEP
- Wired Equivalent Privacy
- WLAN
- wireless local area network
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
Last updated: 2012-08-30
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