Access Control: grants various levels of file or directory permissions to users.

Active Server Page (ASP): an HTML page that includes one or more scripts that are processed on a Microsoft Web server before the page is sent to the user.

ActiveX: a component program object that can be re-used by many application programs within a computer or among computers in a network.

Authentication: Proves identity upon presentation.

Browser: an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.

Business to Business (B2B): the exchange of products, services, or information between businesses rather than between businesses and consumers.

Business to Consumer (B2C): conducted between the Business and the consumer.

Client/Server: the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI): a standard way for a Web server to pass a Web user’s request to an application program and to receive data back to forward to the user.

Consumer to Consumer (C2C): consumer to consumer.

CSS

Data Confidentiality: provides protection of data on a system or host from unauthorized access.

Data Integrity: provides protection against active threats.

Database

Decryption: the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood.

DHTML: a collective term for a combination of new HTML tags and options, that will let you create Web pages more animated and more responsive to user interaction.

Digital Certificate: an electronic “credit card” that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web.

Digital Signatures: an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document.

E-Commerce: the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): the inter-organization exchange of documents in standardized electronic form directly between participating computers.

Email: the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication.

Encryption: the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.

Firewall: a set of related programs, located at a network gateway server that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.

Framework

FTP: the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet.

HTML: identifies the document type as HTML. Also the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page.

HTTP

Hypertext: the organization of information units into connected associations that a user can choose to make.

Hyper Links: a link is a selectable connection from one word, picture, or information object to another.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC): a system for chatting that involves a set of rules and conventions and client/ server software.

Java

Java Server Page (JSP): a technology for controlling the content o r appearance of Web pages through the use of servlets.

JavaScript: an interpreted programming or script language.

Nonrepudiation: when two systems interact, if one later denies that the transactions occurred, this action is repudiation.

Secure Electronic Transactions (SET): it is not widely used currently because it has recently emerged from the test phase, it offers significant security capabilities.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL): a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.

Server: the computer handling the request and sending back the HTML file.

TCP/IP

Telnet: the way you can access someone else’s computer, with the assumption that they have given you permission.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator): the unique address for a file that is accessible on the internet.

VBScript: an interpreted script language from Microsoft that is a subset of its Visual Basic programming language.

Virus: a piece of programming code usually disguised as something else that causes some unexpected and usually undesirable event.

Voice over IP (VOIP): a set of facilities for managing the delivery of voice information using the Internet Protocol.

Web Server:a program that, using the client/ server model and the World Wide Web’s Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users.

What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG): editors that enable you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed.

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): a specification for a set of communicationprotocols to standardize the way thatwirelessdevices, such as cellular telephones and radio transceivers, can be used for Internet access, including e-mail, the World Wide Web, newsgroups, and Internet Relay Chat.

XML: a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere.