A set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) used to create GUI objects: buttons, scroll bars, and windows.  AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) from Sun Microsystems. A more recent set of GUI interfaces called Swing extends the AWT.

  One of three central principles (along with encapsulation and inheritance). Through the process of abstraction, a programmer hides all but the relevant data about an object in order to reduce complexity and increase efficiency.

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An interface specification that enables 3-D graphics to display quickly on personal computers other than an expensive graphics workstation.  

An Intel 800-series chipset design that uses a dedicated bus to transfer data between the two main processor chips instead of using the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, which was used in previous chipset architectures. 

A step-by-step methodology for speeding up the implementation of an SAP R/3 system by as much as 50%. The components of ASAP, are called 'Accelerators'. It consists of templates, questions, and scenarios that require user inputs.

  Devices that speed up data communications, storage and retrieval, encryption and decryption, mathematical operations, graphics, and Web page viewing. They can consist of an individual IC chip, a printed circuit card, or a self-contained system.

In the field of information security, access control is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource.

A table that tells a computer OS which access rights each user has to a particular system object, such as a file directory or individual file. Each object has a security attribute that identifies its access control list. 

A list of all the requests for individual files that people have requested from a Web site. These files will include the HTML files and their imbedded graphic images and any other associated files that get transmitted. 

In WLAN, an access point is a station that transmits and receives data. It connects users to other users within the network and also can serve as the point of interconnection between the WLAN and a fixed wire network. 

A.k.a War Driving, is the act of locating and possibly exploiting connections to WLANs while driving around a city or elsewhere. Once open networks are located, they can be used for any purpose including obtaining company documents.

  AccessChk is a free Sysinternals command-line utility that shows what access a user or group of users has to a particular service, file, folder or registry key in order to identify permissions errors. 

AccessEnum is a free Sysinternals tool that offers administrators a view of the full file system and registry security settings to ensure that users have appropriate permissions to access files and directories.  

A commercial view of an external client relationship as an asset comprising a portfolio of ongoing and future contracts for the delivery of products or services.