Glossary and Acronyms

Term	Definition(En)	Definition(FR)
ATO	Authority to Operate
CIPHI	Cloud Infrastructure for Public Health Intelligence
NML	National Microbiology Laboratory
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
VDG	Vaccination Data Gateway
EMR	Electronic Medical Record
PTs	Provinces and Territories
IPS	International Patient Summary
PVC	Proof of Vaccine Credentials
CVC	Canadian Vaccine Catalogue
IPS	Internal Patient Summary
ARB	Architecture Review Board
GPHIN	Global Public Health Intelligence Network
DTB	Digital Transformation Branch - Health Canada IT
ICAM	Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) is a set of security tools, policies, and systems that helps organizations manage, monitor, and secure access to their information technology (IT) infrastructure.
CIRA	Centre for Integrated Risk Assessment
MRAP	Management Response & Action Plan
ITAP	Integrated Threat Assessment Platform (owned by CIRA)
APM	Application Portfolio Management
PBMM	Protected B, Medium Integrity, Medium Availability
UCLL	Unclassified, Low Integrity, Low Availability
CAP	Cloud Access Point
CXP	Cloud eXchange Providers are 3rd-party WAN-hosting companies that provide cost-effective, dedicated, low latency, high-bandwidth connectivity to multiple/simultaneous Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
NLB	Network Load Balancer
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service: cloud-based services such as storage, networking, and virtualization.
PaaS	Platform as a Service: hardware and software tools available over the internet allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.
SaaS	Software as a Service is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS applications are also known as “Web-based” software, “on-demand” software and “hosted” software.
Private Cloud	The private cloud is defined as computing services offered either over the Internet or a private internal network and only to select users instead of the general public. Private cloud can be deployed “on premise” in a data centre behind a firewall.
Public Cloud	The public cloud is defined as computing services offered by third-party providers over the public Internet, making them available to anyone who wants to use or purchase them.
IaC	Infrastructure as Code
IaD	Infrastructure as Data
IRBV	Information Resource of Business Value
ABAC	Attribute-Based Access Control
API	application Programming Interface
APM	Application Portfolio Management
NLB	Network Load Balancer
CASB	Cloud Access Security Broker
CSPs	Cloud Service Providers
C.I.P.H.I.	Cloud Infrastructure for Public Health Intelligence
CIRA	Centre for Integrated Risk Assessment
CAS	Cloud Access Point
CXP	Connection Exchange Providers
DE	data Enablement
DGIC	Digital Governance, Integration And Collaboration
DMIA	Data Management, Innovation & Analytics
DLP	Data Loss Prevention
DTB	Digital Transformation Branch
GEE	Google Earth Engine
GPHIN	Global Public Health Intelligence Network
HSM	Hardware Security Module
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
IAM	Identity and access management
IdP	identity provider
IM	Information Management
IRBV	Information Resource of Business Value
KPI	Key Performance Indicators
MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication
PaaS	Platform as a Service
PBMM	Protected B, Medium Integrity, Medium Availability
RBAC	Role-Based Access Control
RRAs	Rapid Risk Assessments
SaaS	Software as a Service
SACR	SharePoint as Corporate Repository
SRHD	Substance-related Harms Division
VM	Virtual Machine
WHO	World Health Organisation