CWDS Glossary
The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.
The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.
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Support Portal
A portal or website where internal or external users can access support information (e.g., FAQs, knowledge documents, user manuals, Training Guides, etc.) and perform self-help tasks (e.g., login and password reset, submit service desk request/ticket, etc.).
Suspected Child Abuse Report (SCAR)
A California Department of Justice standard form for Mandated Reporters reporting child abuse.
System Availability
The result of the available time divided by the scheduled time reflects the percentage of the scheduled time the system was available for use.
System Integrator (SI)
A person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together, a practice known as system integration. They also solve problems of automation.
System Outage
Unavailability or decrease in service quality resulting from unexpected behavior of a particular service, or an incident that impacts consumers and results in a service not being delivered at a level they reasonably expect.
System Security Plan (SSP)
The purpose of the SSP is to provide information regarding the security approach, controls, standards, and guidelines for CWS-CARES.
This document will follow the National Institute of Standards (NIST) framework for creation of the plan. It will establish a minimum set of controls that are required in the CWS-CARES system, assigns responsibilities for the security of information assets; and provides a consolidated repository of information that incorporates Federal, State, Departmental, and County information security guidance. The controls discussed in this document are presented as standard operating procedures and guidelines used by CWS-CARES project management, system administrators, system developers, users, and all state/county/vendor personnel to comply with the various security policies and administration directives pertaining to the operation of the CWS-CARES application.
This document will follow the National Institute of Standards (NIST) framework for creation of the plan. It will establish a minimum set of controls that are required in the CWS-CARES system, assigns responsibilities for the security of information assets; and provides a consolidated repository of information that incorporates Federal, State, Departmental, and County information security guidance. The controls discussed in this document are presented as standard operating procedures and guidelines used by CWS-CARES project management, system administrators, system developers, users, and all state/county/vendor personnel to comply with the various security policies and administration directives pertaining to the operation of the CWS-CARES application.
System Test
This tests the system as a whole. All the modules/components are integrated in order to verify if the system works as expected or not. System testing is done after integration testing.