ACPA (Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act) ✔✔An act that allows trademark owners
to challenge foreign cybersquatters otherwise beyond the
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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
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