Acronyms Flashcards

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AAA

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Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

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ACL

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Access Control List

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AES

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Advanced Encryption Standard

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AES-256

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Advanced Encryption Standards 256-bit

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AH

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Authentication Header

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AI

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Artificial Intelligence

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AIS

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Automated Indicator Sharing

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ALE

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Annualized Loss Expectancy

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AP

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Access Point

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API

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Application Programming Interface

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APT

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Advanced Persistent Threat

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ARO

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Annualized Rate of Occurrence

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol

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ASLR

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Address Space Layout Randomization

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ATT&CK

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Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge

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AUP

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Acceptable Use Policy

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Delete

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Delete

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AV

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Antivirus

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BASH

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Bourne Again Shell

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BCP

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Business Continuity Planning

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BGP

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Border Gateway Protocol

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BIA

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Business Impact Analysis

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BIOS

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Basic Input/Output System

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BPA

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Business Partners Agreement

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BPDU
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
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CA
Certificate Authority
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CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAR
Corrective Action Report
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CASB
Cloud Access Security Broker
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CBC
Cipher Block Chaining
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CCMP
Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol
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CCTV
Closed-circuit Television
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CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
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CFB
Cipher Feedback
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CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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CIA
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
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CIO
Chief Information Officer
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CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
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CMS
Content Management System
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COOP
Continuity of Operation Planning
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COPE
Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled
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CP
Contingency Planning
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CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
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CRL
Certificate Revocation List
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CSO
Chief Security Officer
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CSP
Cloud Service Provider
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CSR
Certificate Signing Request
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CSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
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CSU
Channel Service Unit
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CTM
Counter Mode
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CTO
Chief Technology Officer
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CVE
Common Vulnerability Enumeration
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CVSS
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
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CYOD
Choose Your Own Device
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DAC
Discretionary Access Control
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DBA
Database Administrator
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DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
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DEP
Data Execution Prevention
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DES
Digital Encryption Standard
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DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DHE
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail
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DLL
Dynamic Link Library
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DLP
Data Loss Prevention
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DMARC
Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
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DNAT
Destination Network Address Translation
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DNS
Domain Name System
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DoS
Denial of Service
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DPO
Data Privacy Officer
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DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
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DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
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DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
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EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
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ECB
Electronic Code Book
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ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
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EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response
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EFS
Encrypted File System
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ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
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ESN
Electronic Serial Number
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ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
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Delete
Delete
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FDE
Full Disk Encryption
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FIM
File Integrity Management
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FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
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FRR
False Rejection Rate
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol
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FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
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GCM
Galois Counter Mode
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GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
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GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
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GPO
Group Policy Object
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GPS
Global Positioning System
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GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
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GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
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HA
High Availability
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HDD
Hard Disk Drive
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HIDS
Host-based Intrusion Detection System
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HIPS
Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
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HMAC
Hashed Message Authentication Code
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HOTP
HMAC-based One-time Password
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HSM
Hardware Security Module
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HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
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HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
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HVAC
Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
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IaC
Infrastructure as Code
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IAM
Identity and Access Management
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ICS
Industrial Control Systems
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IDEA
International Data Encryption Algorithm
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IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
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IdP
Identity Provider
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IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
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IM
Instant Messaging
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IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
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IoC
Indicators of Compromise
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IoT
Internet of Things
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IP
Internet Protocol
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IPS
Intrusion Prevention System
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IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
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IR
Incident Response
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IRC
Internet Relay Chat
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IRP
Incident Response Plan
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ISO
International Standards Organization
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ISP
Internet Service Provider
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ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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IV
Initialization Vector
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KDC
Key Distribution Center
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KEK
Key Encryption Key
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L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
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LAN
Local Area Network
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
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MAC
Message Authentication Code
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MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
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MBR
Master Boot Record
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MD5
Message Digest 5
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MDF
Main Distribution Frame
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MDM
Mobile Device Management
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MFA
Multifactor Authentication
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MFD
Multifunction Device
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MFP
Multifunction Printer
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ML
Machine Learning
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MMS
Multimedia Message Service
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MOA
Memorandum of Agreement
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MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPLS
Multi-protocol Label Switching
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MSA
Master Service Agreement
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MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake
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MSP
Managed Service Provider
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MSSP
Managed Security Service Provider
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
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MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
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MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
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MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
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NAC
Network Access Control
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NAT
Network Address Translation
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NDA
Non-disclosure Agreement
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NFC
Near Field Communication
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NGFW
Next-generation Firewall
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NIDS
Network-based Intrusion Detection System
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NIPS
Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
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NIST
National Institute of Standards & Technology
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NTFS
New Technology File System
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NTLM
New Technology LAN Manager
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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OAUTH
Open Authorization
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OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
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OID
Object Identifier
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OS
Operating System
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OSINT
Open-source Intelligence
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OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
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OT
Operational Technology
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OTA
Over the Air
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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P12
PKCS #12
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P2P
Peer to Peer
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PaaS
Platform as a Service
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PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
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PAM
Pluggable Authentication Modules
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PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
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PAT
Port Address Translation
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PBKDF2
Password-based Key Derivation Function 2
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PBX
Private Branch Exchange
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PCAP
Packet Capture
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PCI
DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
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PDU
Power Distribution Unit
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PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
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PED
Personal Electronic Device
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PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail
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PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
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PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
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PHI
Personal Health Information
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PII
Personally Identifiable Information
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PIV
Personal Identity Verification
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PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
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PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
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POP
Post Office Protocol
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POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
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PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol
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PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
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PSK
Pre-shared Key
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PTZ
Pan-tilt-zoom
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PUP
Potentially Unwanted Program
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RA
Registration Authority
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RACE
Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
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RAD
Rapid Application Development
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service
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RAID
Redundant Array of Independant Disks
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RAS
Remote Access Server
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RAT
Remote Access Trojan
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RBAC
Rule-based Access Control
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RC4
Rivest Cipher version 4
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RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
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RFID
Radio Frequency Identifier
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RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
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ROI
Return on Investment
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RPO
Recovery Point Objective
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RSA
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
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RTBH
Remotely Triggered Black Hole
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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RTOS
Real-time Operating System
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RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
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S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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SaaS
Software as a Service
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SAE
Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
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SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
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SAN
Subject Alternative Name
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SASE
Secure Access Service Edge
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SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
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SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
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SDK
Software Development Kit
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SDLC
Software Development Lifecycle
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SDLM
Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
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SDN
Software-defined Networking
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SD-WAN
Software-defined Wide Area Network
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SE
Linux Security-enhanced Linux
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SED
Self-encrypting Drives
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SEH
Structured Exception Handler
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SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
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SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
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SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
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SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
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SLA
Service-level Agreement
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SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
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SMS
Short Message Service
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SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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SMTPS
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure
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SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
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SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
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SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation, Response
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SOC
Security Operations Center
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SoC
System on Chip
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SOW
Statement of Work
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SPF
Sender Policy Framework
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SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
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SQL
Structured Query Language
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SQLi
SQL Injection
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SRTP
Secure Real-Time Protocol
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SSD
Solid State Drive
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SSH
Secure Shell
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SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
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SSO
Single Sign-on
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STIX
Structured Threat Information eXchange
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SWG
Secure Web Gateway
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TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
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TAXII
Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information
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TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
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TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
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TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TOC
Time-of-check
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TOTP
Time-based One-time Password
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TOU
Time-of-use
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TPM
Trusted Platform Module
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TSIG
Transaction Signature
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TTP
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
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UAT
User Acceptance Testing
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UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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UDP
User Datagram Protocol
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UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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UEM
Unified Endpoint Management
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UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply
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URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
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URL
Universal Resource Locator
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USB
OTG USB On the Go
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UTM
Unified Threat Management
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UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
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VBA
Visual Basic
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VDE
Virtual Desktop Environment
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VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
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VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
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VM
Virtual Machine
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VoIP
Voice over IP
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VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
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VPN
Virtual Private Network
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VTC
Video Teleconferencing
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WAF
Web Application Firewall
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WAP
Wireless Access Point
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WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
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WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
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WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
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WO
Work Order
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WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
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WPS
Wi-Fi Protected Setup
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WTLS
Wireless TLS
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XDR
Extended Detection and Response
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XML
Extensible Markup Language
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XOR
Exclusive Or
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XSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
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XSS
Cross-site Scripting