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Contingency
An emergency response plan, including backup operations and post-disaster recovery that might be maintained with activity as a part of its security program, guaranteeing the accessibility of critical resources and making the continuity of operations in an emergency situation possible. See also disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan.
Cookie
A small piece of data, originally intended to keep state between web browser accesses to a server. Now used in many SSL Secured servers .
Cost-Benefit Analysis
The evaluation of the costs of supplying data protection for a system against the cost of losing or compromising the data.
Countermeasure
A countermeasure is any action, device, procedure or technique which reduces the susceptibility of or danger to a system. See also safeguard.
Covert Channel
A communications channel allowing two cooperating procedures to transmit information in a way violating the system's security policy, hurting intranet security and online security.