The 1×1 of IT & Aerospace - our glossary

In 1995, the EU adopted Directive 95/46/EC. Since then, it has regulated the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. For each data transfer to 'unsafe third countries' (e.g. the USA or India), individual contracts had to be concluded...

Data protection must be kept strictly separate from data security, information security or IT security. Data protection in the IT sector is about protecting the privacy of every individual, i.e. their 'informational self-determination'. It is...

Twenty years ago, nobody would have thought that a single press of the finger would become one of the most important key figures on the Internet. The mouse click not only guides users through the vast space of the Internet, it has also become the universally accepted...

It is not without good reason that the CPU is referred to as the 'heart' of a computer. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is a programmed and miniaturized computing chip which - according to its 'architecture' of semiconductors (or 'transistors') -...

The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was not on the radar of many companies and internet users for too long. The first draft dates back to 2012, the new paragraphs were adopted in April 2016 and the GDPR will now come into force on May 25, 2018. A lot of time...

There are many competing names for permanent storage media in the IT sector: Hard disk, hard disk drive (HDD) or simply hard disc (HD). These are magnetic storage media with rotating disks ('platters') on which data is stored without contact.

Everyone is familiar with the dubious attachments in e-mails, where you don't know whether they contain malicious code or not. The solution for checking a possible destructive effect is called a 'sandbox'. Just as generals used to plan the presumed course of a battle in a sandbox...

A service is any support that is not based on an exchange of goods or merchandise. The user does not buy 'tangible things' from service providers, but above all competence and experience. Such services are therefore essentially...

If the world consisted only of digital data, no one would be able to read these long strings of zeros and ones. The 'digital world' is that mysterious place where only computers can find their way around. This is - strictly speaking - the core meaning of the word 'digital', it...

The 'Domain Name System' (DNS) is essentially an information service that manages addresses in the 'namespace' of the Internet and thus directs user queries to the right destination. The user enters a reasonably comprehensible query - such as the URL 'brm.de' - and the...