Glossary

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Remote Workforce

A remote workforce is a mode of work that allows employees of an organization to perform their essential job responsibilities via a remote location, or outside of their traditional office space. It is becoming an increasingly popular concept among organizations and is being implemented at an increasing rate across the world. \r\n

REST

Short for Representational State Transfer. It is an architectural style consisted of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements – all within a distributed hypermedia system. 

RESTful

Also referred to as a RESTful web service -- is based on representational state transfer technology, an architectural style and approach to communications often used in web services development.

Reverse Proxy

A proxy configured to handle requests from a group of remote or arbitrary clients to a group of known resources under the control of the local Administrator.

RFC

Short for Request for Comments. It is a formal text document drafted by the technology community. An RFC document may come from many bodies including the IETF, IRTF, IAB, or from an independent author.

RFC 4880

The IETF standards of Open PGP.

ROI

Stands for Return on Investment.