Glossary: C

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• CAMS — Collaboration Accounts Management System of CAMS is a part of MIT's Touchstone single sign-on infrastructure. It is used to register and manage identities for users outside the MIT community who may need to access MIT services.
• Certificate — An electronic credential that allows access to secure web applications.
• Certificate Authority — A trusted third-party organization or company that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs.
• Confluence — a wiki web application created by Atlassian software.
• Container — A term used in the context of Microsoft Windows Domains and Group Policy. Containers hold groups of items to which policies and settings can be applied remotely.