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A __________________ is any agent, condition, or circumstance that could potentially cause harm, loss, damage, or compromise to an IT asset or data asset.

The ___________________________ (SOW) provided by a potential vendor is a critically important document because it outlines the specific work to be provided by the vendor.

_____________________  is the glue or the coordination between automation tasks.  It will free up resources both digital and human so they can perform other tasks. 

When a client uploads data to the cloud, that data is placed into a __________________________. CSPs call their containers by different names. For example, AWS and Google Cloud use the term bucket, whereas Azure uses blob.

_______________  is often called the HIPAA of educational systems. It is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.

_____________________is a secure network connection that occurs through a public network. It can be used to connect individual users to a corporate network.

The first official business process when looking for a cloud provider is a __________________________ (RFI). The purpose of an RFI is to collect written information about a CSP’s capabilities.

The purpose of______________________ iis to make files smaller so they take up less storage space. It works by looking for repeated information within a file and then replacing that information with a shorter string. 

__________________________  is the most common response to risk. In short, mitigation is the act of reducing risk through the expenditure of resources of the organization.

The ____________________________________   (SLA) defines metrics for measuring success. Both are critically important to have in the final contract.