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accessibility

With reference to point code, the ability of a local MTP (message transfer part) to send a message to the MTP at the remote signaling point. [T1.11
0. 2-1999]

account

1. Typically corresponds 1-to-1 to Subscriber.
2. Typically corresponds 1-to-1 to IPTV Customer.

accountability

1. The property that ensures that the actions of an individual or an institution may be traced uniquely to that individual or institution. [After X9.57]
2. In information systems (IS), the process of tracing IS activities to a responsible source. [INFOSEC-99]
3. In COMSEC, the principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equipment, keying material, and information… (Read More →)

Accounting

1. Recording of the exercise of access rights to types of information specified in the System Security policy.
Note: The term "security accounting" may be used to avoid ambiguity. See also: Audit Trail.
2. A mechanism that keeps accurate track of a user's profile, usage, and service charges.

accounting management

In network management, a set of functions that (a) enables network service use to be measured and the costs for such use to be determined and (b) includes all the resources consumed, the facilities used to collect accounting data, the facilities used to set billing parameters for the services used by customers, maintenance of the data bases used for billing… (Read More →)

accreditation

1. In computer security, the authorization and approval--granted by a designated authority to a data processing system, computer network, organization, or individual--to process sensitive information or data. [2382-pt.8]
2. Formal declaration by a designated approving authority that an information system (IS) is approved to operate in a particular security mode using a prescribed set of safeguards at an acceptable level… (Read More →)

accumulator

1. A register in which one operand can be stored and subsequently replaced by the result of an arithmetic or logic operation.
2. A storage register.
3. A storage battery.

accuracy

The degree of conformity of a measured or calculated value to its actual or specified value.

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