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Reactive Control
Reactive controls are used to respond to undesirable events that have occurred.
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Registration Authority
An entity trusted to register other entities in applying for certificate and revoking their certificates. The authority may assign each applicant a relative distinguished value or name for the new certificate applied.
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Remote File Inclusion
Remote file inclusion is a technique used by attacker to include hostile code and data to a web application.
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Replay Attack
A replay attack is an attack in which the attacker intercepted a communication session from a legitimate user and then repeated in a later time the captured session in an attempt to impersonate the legitimate user.
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Repudiation
Denial by an entity involved in a communication / transaction that s/he has participated in the activity.
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Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) Algorithm
RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is an algorithm for asymmetric cryptography invented in 1977.
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Robot (or Bot)
A robot is a computer program that runs over the Internet to perform specific task. An example is search engine robot that searches the web for content and links.
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Rogue Device
It refers to devices introduced into the network that are not authorised.
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Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Role-based access control (RBAC) is an authorisation mechanism in which access decisions are based on the roles that individual users have as part of an organisation.
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Rootkit
A rootkit is a program/tool designed to gain the root / administrator access of a system. It often refers to that of malicious intent without going through proper authorization and/or authentication processes.
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