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WGU C961- Acronym Worksheet Terms Latest 2022 ACPA (Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act) ✔✔An act that allows trademark owners to challenge foreign cybersquatters otherwise beyond the j... urisdiction of U.S. courts. AI ✔✔Artificial Intelligence AIA (Leahy-Smith America Invents Act) ✔✔An act that changed the U.S. patent system so that the first person to file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will receive the patent, not necessarily the person who actually invented the item first. APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) ✔✔A network attack in which an intruder gains access to a network and stays there—undetected—with the intention of stealing data over a long period of time (weeks or even months). AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) ✔✔A document that stipulates restrictions and practices that a user must agree in order to use organizational computing and network resources. BSA | The Software Alliance (Business Software Alliance) ✔✔The trade groups that represent the world's largest software and hardware manufacturers. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) ✔✔A business policy that permits—and in some cases, encourages—employees to use their own mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, or laptops) to access company computing resources and applications, including email, corporate databases, the corporate intranet, and the internet.CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart): ✔✔Software that generates and grades tests that humans can pass and all but the most sophisticated computer programs cannot. CDS (Clinical Decision Support) ✔✔A process and a set of tools designed to enhance healthcarerelated decision making through the use of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to improve healthcare delivery. CDA (Communications Decency Act): ✔✔Title V of the Telecommunications Act, it aimed at protecting children from pornography, including imposing $250,000 fines and prison terms of up to two years for the transmission of "indecent" material over the internet. COPA (Child Online Protection Act) ✔✔An act signed into law in 1998 with the aim of prohibiting the making of harmful material available to minors via the internet; the law was ultimately ruled largely unconstitutional. COPPA: (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) ✔✔An act that requires U.S.-based websites that collect personal information from people under the age of 13 to obtain permission from parents or guardians before asking for such data. CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) ✔✔An act passed in 2000; it required federally financed schools and libraries to use some form of technological protection (such as an internet filter) to block computer access to obscene material, pornography, and anything else considered harmful to minors. CIA Security Triad ✔✔Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability CPOE System (Computerized Provider Order Entry System) ✔✔A system that enables physicians to place orders—for drugs, laboratory tests, radiology, or physical therapy—electronically, with the orders transmitted directly to the recipient.CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) ✔✔A law specifying that it is legal to spam, provided the messages meet a few basic requirements: spammers cannot disguise their identity by using a false return address, the email must include a label specifying that it is an ad or a solicitation, and the email must include a way for recipients to indicate that they do not want future mass mailings. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) ✔✔The concept that an organization should act ethically by taking responsibility for the impact of its actions on its shareholders, consumers, employees, community, environment, and suppliers. CPC (Cost Per Click) ✔✔One of the two common methods of charging for paid media in which ads are paid for only when someone actually clicks on them. CPM (Post Per Thousand Impressions) ✔✔One of the two common methods of charging for paid media in which ads are billed at a flat rate per 1,000 impressions, which is a measure of the number of times an ad is displayed whether it was actually clicked on or not. DSS (Decision Support System) ✔✔A business information system used to improve decision making in a variety of industries. A ___ can develop accurate forecasts of customer demand, recommend stocks and bonds, or schedule shift workers to minimize cost while meeting customer service goals. DHS (Department of Homeland Security) ✔✔A large federal agency with more than 240,000 employees and a budget of almost $65 billion whose goal is to provide for a "safer, more secure America, which is resilient against terrorism and other potential threats." DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) ✔✔Signed into law in 1998, the act addresses a number of copyright-related issues, with Title II of the act providing limitations on the liability of an Internet service provider for copyright infringement.DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack) ✔✔An attack in which a malicious hacker takes over computers via the internet and causes them to flood a target site with demands for data and other small tasks. DTSA (Defend Trade Secrets Act) ✔✔Amended the EEA (see below) to create a federal civil remedy for trade secret misappropriation EEA (Economic Espionage Act) ✔✔An act passed in 1996 to help law enforcement agencies pursue economic espionage. It imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets. EHR (Electronic Health Record) ✔✔A comprehensive view of the patient's complete medical history designed to be shared with authorized providers and staff from more than one organization. EMR (Electronic Medical Record) ✔✔A collection of health-related information on an individual that is created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within a single healthcare organization. EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) ✔✔A system that enables purchasers to evaluate, compare, and select electronic products based on a total of 51 environmental criteria. FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) ✔✔An act that makes it a crime to bribe a foreign official, a foreign political party official, or a candidate for foreign political office. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) [Show More]

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