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Fortress : Glossary
MaPS Console
In Fortress’s MaPS, a Java-based, configuration client interface for the Fortress Manage-
ment and Policy Server, through which all MaPS functions are accessed.
MaPS object
In Fortress’s MaPS, any entity on the secure network, including Fortress controller
devices, Secure Client devices, users, and network resources.
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network—a collection of interconnected computers within a town or
city.
MIB
Management Information Base—SNMP-compliant information that an SNMP agent
stores about itself and sends in response to SNMP server requests (PDUs).
MobileLink™
In GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, a proprietary method for wireless
transmission of serial output.
MITM
Man in the Middle attack—a network security breach in which an attacker is able to
intercept, read, insert and modify messages between two parties without their knowing
that the link between them has been compromised.
Multi-factor Authentication™
In Fortress Technologies products, the combination of network authentication (through
the network Access ID), device authentication (through the Device ID), and user
authentication (through user credentials), that guards the network against unwanted
access. (Device authentication can be implemented only on a MaPS-managed network.)
multiplexing The practice of transmitting multiple signal types over a single connection.
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System—an API that originally provided basic I/O services
for a PC-Network and that has been variously adapted and augmented to support cur-
rent LAN/WLAN technologies.
network authentication
In Fortress Technologies products, the requirement that all devices must authenticate
with the correct
Access ID in order to connect to the Fortress-secured network; one of
the factors in Fortress’s Multi-factor Authentication™.
network resource
In Fortress’s MaPS, one of a special class of MaPS object on the wired LAN that provides
a service or function, such as e-mail or printing, to devices and users on the WLAN.
NIAP
National Information Assurance Partnership—a collaboration between NIST and the
National Security Agency (NSA), in response to the Computer Security Act of 1987 (PL
100-235), to promote sound security requirements for IT products and systems and
appropriate measures for evaluating them.
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Government agency responsi-
ble for FIPS.
NTLM Windows NT LAN Manager—a user authentication protocol developed by Microsoft®.
operating mode
In Fortress Technologies products, the way in which access controls and cryptographic
processing are implemented on the Fortress-secured network.
OSI Model
Open System Interconnection Model—an ISO standard that defines a networking
framework for implementing data transfer and processing protocols in seven layers.
(Also see,
DLC.)
PAN Personal Area Network
partner
In Fortress Technologies, devices in communication with the Fortress controller device,
including redundant controller devices, access points and any configured Trusted
Devices, as well as the controller device’s Secure Clients.
PDU
Protocol Data Unit—often synonymous with packet, a unit of data and/or control infor-
mation as defined by an OSI layer protocol
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a system of digital certificates and other registration
authorities that authenticate the validity of each party involved in an Internet transac-
tion; sometimes, trusted hierarchy.
policy
In Fortress’s MaPS, the means by which access to the secure network and its resources
are controlled for users, devices and groups.
PPP
Point-to -Point Protocol—a method for communicating TCP/IP traffic over serial point-
to-point connections.