CRISC - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control term definition - Part 3

Allocation entry

A recurring journal entry used to allocate revenues or costs.

Alpha

The use of alphabetic characters or an alphabetic character string

Alternate facilities

Locations and infrastructures from which emergency or backup processes are executed, when the main premises are unavailable or destroyed other buildings, offices or data processing centers

Alternate process

Automatic or manual process designed and established to continue critical business processes from point-of-failure to return-to-normal

Alternative routing

A service that allows the option of having an alternate route to complete a call when the marked destination is not available

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCII

Amortization

The process of cost allocation that assigns the original cost of an intangible asset to the periods benefited; calculated in the same way as depreciation.

Analog

A transmission signal that varies continuously in amplitude and time and is generated in wave formation.

Analytical technique

The examination of ratios, trends, and changes in balances and other values between periods to obtain a broad understanding of the enterprise's financial or operational position and to identify areas that may require further or closer investigation

Anomaly

Unusual or statistically rare.

Benefit

In business, an outcome whose nature and value (expressed in various ways) are considered advantageous by an enterprise.

Best practice

A proven activity or process that has been successfully used by multiple enterprises.

Binary code

A code whose representation is limited to 0 and 1.

Biometric locks

Door and entry locks that are activated by such biometric features as voice, eye retina, fingerprint or signature.

Biometrics

A security technique that verifies an individual’s identity by analyzing a unique physical attribute, such as a handprint.

Bit-stream image

Bit-stream backups, also referred to as mirror image backups, involve the backup of all areas of a computer hard disk drive or other type of storage media

Black box testing

A testing approach that focuses on the functionality of the application or product and does not require knowledge of the code intervals.

Broadband

Multiple channels are formed by dividing the transmission medium into discrete frequency segments

Brouter

Device that performs the functions of both a bridge and a router

Browser

A computer program that enables the user to retrieve information that has been made publicly available on the Internet; also, that permits multimedia (graphics) applications on the World Wide web