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• Information Assurance (IA)
  • practice of assuring information
  • managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes
  • includes protection of the integrity, availability, authenticity, non-repudiation and confidentiality of user data
  • uses physical, technical, and administrative controls

• Interoperability Agreement
  • type of contract that identifies various responsibilities of organizations that are working together
    
  • contracts of this type include:
    • NDA
    • ISA
    • SLA
    • MOU
    • BPA