CSP Unit 1 Vocabulary

innovation(s)

security breach

algorithm

flow patterns

sequencing

iteration

selection

condition (Boolean)

loop

indefinite loops

definite loops

flowchart

imperative statement

descriptive qualifier

cryptography

plaintext

ciphertext

Caesar cipher

Vigenère cipher

cybersecurity

CIA Triad

confidentiality

integrity

availability

authentication

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

digital certificate

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack

firewall

public key encryption

viruses

symmetric encryption

social engineering

phishing

malware

ambiguity

natural language

artificial language

visual programming language

high-level language

low-level language

source code

machine code

compilation

compiler

hardware

RAM

secondary storage

primary storage

Central Processing Unit

pseudocode

sequential execution

unsolvable problem

Halting Problem

undecidable problem

scalability

Big-O Notation

sequential search

binary search

logarithmic behavior

brute forcing

Moore's Law

heuristics

distributed computing

botnets

bitcoin mining