Alphabetical list of Information Technology terms beginning with 'C'

• C Programming Language (C)
• C# (C Sharp)
• C++ Programming Language
• C++ Software Engineer
• Cabinet File
• Cable Modem
• Cache
• Cache Coherence
• Cakewalk Application Language (CAL)
• Call Center Suite
• Call Detail Record (CDR)
• Call Forwarding
• Call Stack
• Caller ID
• Caller ID Spoofing
• Caller Ringback Tone (RBT)
• Camera Phone
• Camper
• Campus Area Network (CAN)
• CAN-SPAM Act
• Candela (cd)
• Candidate Key
• Candy Bar Phone
• Canonical
• Canonical Name (CNAME)
• Canonicalization
• Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
• Capacitive Touch Screen
• Capacity
• Carbon Footprint
• Carbon Free Computing
• Carbon-Based Error
• Card Not Present (CNP)
• Card Skimming
• Cardinality
• Carebear
• Carnivore
• Carrier
• Carrier Ethernet
• Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
• Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 (CSS1)
• Caspio Bridge
• Cast
• Castanet
• Catch Block
• Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT)
• CD-Read Writable (CD-RW)
• Cell On Wheels (COW)
• Cell Phone Spying
• Cell Relay
• Cells In Frames (CIF)
• Cellular
• Cellular Automaton (CA)
• Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)
• Cellular Network
• Cellular Phone
• Cellular Phone Hacking
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Central Office (CO)
• Central Office Exchange Service (Centrex)
• Central Outdoor Router (COR)
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Central Processing Unit (CPU) Socket (CPU Socket)
• Centronics Interface
• Certification
• Certification Authority (CA)
• Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
• Certified eBay Solutions Provider
• Certified Output Protection Protocol (COPP)
• Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
• Challenge-Response Authentication
• Change Management
• Change Mode (chmod)
• Channel Access Method (CAM)
• Channel Bank
• Channel Partner
• Channel Service Unit/Digital Service Unit (CSU/DSU)
• Chaos Theory
• Charles Babbage
• Chatterbot
• Check Digit
• Checked Operator
• Checksum
• Chernobyl Virus
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
• Child Process
• Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
• Chinese Wall
• Chip
• Chip Multithreading (CMT)
• Chipset
• Choke Packet
• Choke Worm
• Chroma Bug (CUE)
• Chroma Key
• Chrome Operating System (Chrome OS)
• Chuck Norris Facts
• Chunk
• CIE Color Model
• Cipher
• Circuit-Level Gateway
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
• Cisco EnergyWise
• Cisco Network Admission Control (Cisco NAC)
• Cisco Unified Computing System (CUCS)
• Citizen Journalism
• Clamshell Mobile
• Clan
• Class
• Class C Network
• Class Library
• Class members
• Clean Computing
• Clean Install
• Clean Room Design
• Clearing House Interbank Payments Company (CHIPS)
• Click Fraud
• Click Network
• Click-and-Mortar
• Click-Through Rate (CTR)
• Clickjack Attack
• Clickprint
• Clicktivism
• Clickwrap Agreement
• Client Access License (CAL)
• Client Hypervisor
• Client-Server Model
• Clip Art
• Clipboard
• Clipboard Hijacking Attack
• Clipper Chip
• Cloaking
• Clock Speed
• Clonezilla
• Cloud
• Cloud Application Portability
• Cloud Application Programming Interface (Cloud API)
• Cloud Burst
• Cloud Capitalist
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Security
• Cloud Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Gaming
• Cloud Migration
• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
• Cloud Service Architecture
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Storage API
• Cloud Storage Gateway
• Cloud Storage Service
• Cloud Storage Service-Level Agreement (Cloud Storage SLA)
• Cloud Testing
• Cloud-in-a-Can
• CloudAV
• Cloudsourcing
• Cluster (Disk)
• Cluster (Servers)
• Clustered Index
• Clustering
• Co-branding
• Co-marketing
• Cobweb Site
• Codd's Rules
• Code
• Code Access Security (CAS)
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA2000)
• Code Review
• Code Signing
• Cold Buffer
• Cold Fusion
• Cold Plugging
• Cold Server
• Cold Site
• Cold Standby
• Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
• Collapsed Backbone
• Collection
• Collision Avoidance
• Collision Detection
• Colocation Facility
• Color Saturation
• Comma-Separated Values File (CSV)
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Comment
• Comments
• Commerce Server
• Commerce Services Provider (CSP)
• Commerce XML (cXML)
• Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
• Commit
• Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
• Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL)
• Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Common Information Model (CIM)
• Common Internet File System (CIFS)
• Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
• Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Common Language Specification (CLS)
• Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
• Common Short Code (CSC)
• Common Type System (CTS)
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
• Communication and Networking Riser (CNR)
• Communication Controller
• Communication Media
• Communication Protocol
• Communication Software
• Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA)
• Communications Security (COMSEC)
• Communications Server
• Community Cloud
• Comodo Dragon
• Compact HTML (C-HTML)
• CompactFlash (CF)
• Companding
• Companion Virus
• Comparison Operator
• Comparison Shopping Engine
• Compartmented Security Mode
• Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
• Compile
• Compiler
• Complementary Code Keying (CCK)
• Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)
• Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers And Humans Apart (CAPTCHA)
• Compliance
• Component
• Component Object Model (COM)
• Component Object Model+ (COM+)
• Composite Applications
• Composite Key
• Compulsory License
• Computational Grid
• Computational Origami
• Computational Reflection
• Computer
• Computer Aided Test Tool (CATT)
• Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA)
• Computer Cabinet
• Computer Cluster
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Ethics
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
• Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
• Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Computer Network
• Computer Network Technician
• Computer Networking
• Computer Ontology
• Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD)
• Computer Port
• Computer Science
• Computer Science Network (CSNet)
• COMPUter SECurity (COMPUSEC)
• Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
• Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
• Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
• Computer-Intensive
• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Concatenated Short Message Service (Concatenated SMS)
• Concatenation
• Concatenation
• Concept of Operations (CONOP)
• Concurrency
• Concurrent Use
• Concurrent Version System (CVS)
• Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
• Conditional Attribute
• Conditional Logical Operator
• Conditional Operator
• Conficker
• Confidentiality
• Configuration Control/Configuration Management (CM)
• Conformance
• Congestion
• Coning
• Connected Device Configuration (CDC)
• Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC)
• Connectile Dysfunction
• Connection Admission Control (CAC)
• Connection-Oriented Protocol (COP)
• Connection-Oriented Service
• Connectionless Service
• Consistency
• Console Application
• Console Game
• Consolidation
• Constant
• Constrictor
• Constructor
• Consumer Electronics ATA (CE-ATA)
• Consumer-to-Business (C2B)
• Consumerization of IT
• Contact Manager
• Container
• Contamination
• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Content Farm
• Content Filtering
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Content Package
• Content Scraping
• Content Spoofing
• Content Vectoring Protocol (CVP)
• Context
• Context-Aware Network (CAN)
• Contextual Menu
• Contiguous Memory Allocation
• Contingency Plan
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
• Control Bus
• Control Panel
• Control Unit (CU)
• Control-Alt-Delete
• Controlled Cryptographic Item (CCI)
• Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
• Controller
• Controller Card
• Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
• Conversion Marketing
• Conversion Operator
• Conversion Rate
• Cookie
• Cookie Theft
• CoolTalk
• Copper Data Distribution Interface (CDDI)
• Copy Protection
• Copyleft
• Core Dump
• Core Router
• Corridor Warrior
• Cost management
• Cost Per Action (CPA)
• Cost Per Click (CPC)
• Cost Per Impression (CPI)
• Cost Per Lead (CPL)
• Counter-Googling
• Countermeasure
• Course Management System (CMS)
• Covert Channel
• CPU Interrupt Code (CIC)
• CPU Utilization
• Crack
• CrackBerry
• Crash to Desktop (CTD)
• Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete (CRUD)
• Credit Freeze
• Creeper Virus
• Creeping Featuritis
• Crimeware
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Critical Section Routine (CSR)
• Critical Security Parameter (CSP)
• Critical Success Factor (CSF)
• Criticality Level
• CRM Customer Service Solution
• Cross Language Support
• Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• Crowdfunding
• Cruft
• Cryptanalysis
• Cryptoanarchism
• Cryptocurrency
• Cryptographic Key
• Cryptography
• Cuckoo Egg
• Cupcake
• Curl
• Cursor
• Custom Control
• Customer Analytics
• Customer Data Integration (CDI)
• Customer Data Management (CDM)
• Customer Information Control System (CICS)
• Customer Premises Equipment Device (CPE Device)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Dashboard (CRM Dashboard)
• Customer Self Service (CSS)
• Cutting Edge Technology
• Cyber Libel
• Cyber Monday
• Cyber Security
• Cyberattack
• Cyberbullying
• Cyberchondriac
• Cybercide
• Cybercrime
• Cybercriminal
• Cyberforensics