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| | Information and Network Security Terms - T |
 | | Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA), formed by Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, defines specifications through the collaboration of HW, SW, communications, and technology vendors, and drives and implement TCPA specifications for an enhanced HW and OS based trusted computing platform that implements trust into client, server, networking, and communication platforms. |
 | | A computer program that appears to have a useful function, but also has a hidden and potentially malicious function that evades security mechanisms, sometimes by exploiting legitimate authorizations of a system entity that invokes the program. |
 | | A communication channel created in a computer network by encapsulating a communication protocol's data packets in (on top of) a second protocol that normally would be carried above, or at the same layer as, the first one. |
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