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ENCRYPTION
An informationsecurityprocess where information is encrypted and can only be accessed by owners of the corresponding decryption key. All communication and long term persistence of privatecontent,profiles, andresourcesshould be encrypted, and keys managed the accordingly. See alsoAuthorization Authentication Entitlement.

ENTERPRISE
SeeOrganization.

ENTITLEMENT
Aresource relationtype that defines responsibility, accountability, accessrights,privileges,policies, and tracking betweenassociatedresources. Theprocessofsecuring resourcesby constraining access of subject resources over object resources, in real-time, on every access, withunlimited granularity, to ensure that: users are given access only to all resources that they are entitled to, for any given context. Entitlement is expressed, modeled, and managed as a resourcerelationtype, that defines access rights, roles, and policies between resources. Entitlement is at the root ofdistributed virtual profile applications, because of the important associated security considerations. Entitlement is a fundamental information andknowledge sharingenabler, combiningEncryption Authorization Authenticationwith resource management to offer secure information sharing and access. Run-time entitlement is provided and enforced by theDNAOS Reference Monitor.

ENTITY
As knowledge naturally maps toresources, as consequently resources are everything, and as tradition (e.g. databases, UML) and logic typically differentiate entities andrelations, entities are resources that are not relations (e.g. that do not also define relations between other resources). Unfortunately, [ISO TC97/SC5/WG3 TR 9007 (1982)] defines entity as "any concrete or abstract thing of interest, including associations between things.", breaking with common usage, tradition, and logic, especially as beings, for example, are not typically referred to as things, but commonly as resources. Entity is also sometime used as asynonymforpartyor owner resources, which we will also avoid, to try to limit confusion, especially as party and owner already describes those resources.

ENUMERATION
Asequenceofvalues.

ESTIMATION
Calculating the value ofresources.

EVALUATION
The assessment ofresourcesagainst defined criteria.

EVENT
Events areaction resourcesthatsignalanactivity phasetransition. Event complexity can vary considerably, from simple signals to richnotificationmessages.