Definitions

TERM	COMMON PHRASES	DEFINITION
Authorization	Approval, permission	The function of establishing an individual’s privilege levels to access and/or handle information.
Availability	Accessibility	Ensuring that information is ready and suitable for use.
Confidential / Confidentiality	Private, limited	Ensuring that information is kept in strict privacy.
Integrity	Accurate, complete, consistent	Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of information.
Unauthorized access	Breach	Looking up, reviewing, copying, modifying, deleting, analyzing, or handling information without proper authorization and legitimate business need.
Restricted information	Protected information	Information with a high confidentiality level that requires special protection for legal and/or policy reasons.
University information	University data	Information that Princeton University collects, possesses, or has access to, regardless of its source. This includes information contained in hard copy documents or other media, communicated over voice or data networks, or exchanged in conversation.

TERM	COMMON PHRASES	DEFINITION
Access	Use, handle	Looking up, reviewing, copying, modifying, deleting, analyzing, or otherwise handling information.
Encrypt	Cipher	Cryptographic transformation of plaintext into cipher text to conceal its meaning.
Exposure	Leak, compromise	When information has been made accessible / released to an unauthorized party.
External devices	Storage, external drive	Storage and other devices not housed within a computer, such as USB devices or external hard drives.
Hard copy	Physical copy, permanent reproduction	Printed or otherwise permanent reproduction of data.
Information at rest	Data at rest, stored data, inactive data	Data stored in databases, programs, the Information Warehouse or elsewhere.
Information in transit	Data in motion, information in motion	Data being accessed over Princeton's network.
Soft copy	Digital copy	Unprinted, editable data file in an email, computer display or other format.