Glossary

Data that would cause limited through to exceptionally grave damage to Australia’s national interests, the Australian Government generally or to an individual Commonwealth entity if compromised (i.e. data assessed as OFFICIAL: Sensitive, PROTECTED, SECRET or TOP SECRET).

Large groups of low paid workers whose job it is to click on links, surf around target websites, perhaps signing up for newsletters and then moving on to another link. It is very hard for an automated filter to analyse this simulated traffic and detect that it is invalid as it has the same profile as a real visitor.

Using a compromised computer to click website ads without the user’s awareness to generate revenue for the website, or drain resources from the advertiser.

A form of false advertisement which uses links that are designed to attract attention and entice users to follow that link and read, view or listen to the linked content, with a defining characteristic of being deceptive, typically sensationalised or misleading.

A network of remote servers hosted on the internet and used to store, manage, and process data in place of local servers or personal computers.

Model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

A company that offers some component of cloud computing to other businesses or individuals, typically infrastructure-as-a-service (laaS), platform-as-a-service (PasS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Content Management System

Commercial National Security Algorithm

A set of instructions written in a programming language that a computer can understand and execute.