Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 46 > Article 1 > Part 3 - Territorial Applicability and General Rules

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cyber risk assessment: means the process of identifying, analyzing and evaluating risk and applying the appropriate security controls relevant to the information custodians. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• Cybersecurity framework: means computer technology security guidance for organizations to assess and improve their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber incidents. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• cybersecurity incident: means a violation, or imminent threat of violation, of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard security practices. See West Virginia Code 5A-6C-1
• Cybersecurity Office: means the office created by §. See West Virginia Code 5A-6C-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the director of the information services and communications division. See West Virginia Code 5A-7-1
• Division: means the Information Services and Communications Division established in section two hereof. See West Virginia Code 5A-7-1
• Enterprise: means the collective departments, agencies and boards within state government that provide services to citizens and other state entities. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Information custodian: means a department, agency or person that has the actual custody of, or is responsible for the accountability for a set of data assets. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Plan of action and milestones: means a remedial plan, or the process of accepting or resolving risk, which helps the information custodian to identify and assess information system security and privacy weaknesses, set priorities and monitor progress toward mitigating the weaknesses. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Administration. See West Virginia Code 5A-7-1
• Security controls: means safeguards or countermeasures to avoid, detect, counteract or minimize security risks to physical property, information, computer systems or other assets. See West Virginia Code 5A-6B-2
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10