| The Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) Industry is full of acronyms. Listed here are brief explanations
/ expansions to some of the acronyms listed on the Volante website.
ICT – Information and Communications Technology
IT – Information Technology
IP Telephony – Internet Protocol Telephony
LAN – Local Area Network
WAN – Wide Area Network
ILM – Information Lifecycle Management
SNIA – Storage Networking Industry Association
ROI – Return on Investment
DR – Disaster Recovery
SAN – Storage Area Network
BC – Business Continuity
SRM – Storage Resource Management
TCO – Total Cost of Ownership
PC – Personal Computer
PDA – Personal Digital Assistant
SOE – Standard Operating Environment
MOE – Managed Operating Environment
OS – Open Source or Operating System
SBC – Server Based Computing
CRM – Customer Relationship Management
CC – CustomerConnect
SC – SoftwareConnect
ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
SLA – Service Level Agreements
SOA – Service Oriented Architecture
CLERP 9 – Corporate Law Economic Reform
Program 9 Act
SOX – Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
ITIL – Information Technology Infrastructure
Library
ASCI33 – Australian Communications-Electronics
Security Instruction 33.
ISO17799 – International Standard ISO17799
for Information Security Management
COBIT – Control Objectives for Information
and related technology. COBIT stands for Control Objectives for
Information and related Technology and is an open standard for
control over information technology, developed and promoted by
Governance Institute. This framework identifies 34 information
technology (IT) processes, a high-level approach to control over
these processes, as well as 318 detailed control objectives and
audit guidelines to assess the 34 IT processes. It provides a
generally applicable and accepted standard for good IT security
and control practices to support management's needs in determining
and monitoring the appropriate level of IT security and control
for their organizations.
HB231:2000 – Best Practice Guide to Information
Security Risk Management (Standards Australia supplement to As/NZS
4444)
AS4360 – Risk management . Australian/NZ
standard defining elements of the risk management process
VPN – Virtual Private Networks
TRA – Threats and Risk Assessment
ASX – Australian Stock Exchange.
SAM – Software Assets Management
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