1.0 Acronyms Flashcards
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3DES
A
Triple Digital Encryption Standard
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AAA
A
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
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ABAC
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Attribute-based Access Control
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ACL
A
Access Control List
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AES
A
Advanced Encryption Standard
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AES256
A
Advanced Encryption Standards 256bit
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AH
A
Authentication Header
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ALE
A
Annualized Loss Expectancy
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AP
A
Access Point
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API
A
Application Programming Interface
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APT
A
Advanced Persistent Threat
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ARO
A
Annualized Rate of Occurrence
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
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ASLR
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Address Space Layout Randomization
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AUP
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Acceptable Use Policy
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AV
A
Antivirus
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BAC
A
Business Availability Center
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BCP
A
Business Continuity Planning
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BIA
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Business Impact Analysis
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BIOS
A
Basic Input/Output System
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BPA
A
Business Partners Agreement
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BPDU
A
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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BYOD
A
Bring Your Own Device
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CA
A
Certificate Authority
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CAC
Common Access Card
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CAN
Controller Area Network
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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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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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CER
Certificate
33
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
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CFB
Cipher Feedback
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CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
36
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 Operations Plan
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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
49
CTM
Counter-Mode
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CTO
Chief Technology Officer
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CTR
Click Through rate
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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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DER
Distinguished Encoding Rules
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DES
Digital Encryption Standard
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DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DHE
Data-Handling Electronics
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DHE
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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DLL
Dynamic Link Library
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DLP
Data Loss Prevention
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DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
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DNAT
Destination Network Address Transaction
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DNS
Domain Name Service (Server)
67
DoS
Denial of Service
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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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DSU
Data Service Unit
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EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
73
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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EFS
Encrypted File System
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EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
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EMP
Electro Magnetic Pulse
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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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FACL
File System Access Control List
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FDE
Full Disk Encryption
85
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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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
Graphic Processing Unit
93
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 over SSL/TLS
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HVAC
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ICS
Industrial Control Systems
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ID
Identification
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IDEA
International Data Encryption Algorithm
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IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
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IdP
Identity Provider
112
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
115
IM
Instant Messaging
116
IMAP4
Internet Message Access Protocol v4
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IoT
Internet of Things
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IP
Internet Protocol
119
IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
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IR
Incident Response
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IR
Infrared
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IRC
Internet Relay Chat
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IRP
Incident Response Plan
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ISA
Interconnection Security Agreement
125
ISP
Internet Service Provider
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ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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ITCP
IT Contingency Plan
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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
134
LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
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MAC (File security)
Mandatory Access Control
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MAC (OSI Layer 2 protocol)
Media Access Control
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MAC (Messaging)
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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MFD
Multi-function Device
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MITM
Man-in-the-Middle
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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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MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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MSP
Managed 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 or Mean Time to Repair
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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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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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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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PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
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PED
Personal Electronic Device
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PEM
Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
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PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
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PFX
Personal Exchange Format
186
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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PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
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POP
Post Office Protocol
192
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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RA
Recovery Agent
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RA
Registration Authority
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RAD
Rapid Application Development
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server
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RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
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RAS
Remote Access Server
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RAT
Remote Access Trojan
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RBAC
Role-based Access Control
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RBAC
Rule-based Access Control
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RC4
Rivest Cipher version 4
207
RFID
Radio Frequency Identifier
208
RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
209
ROI
Return on Investment
210
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
216
S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
217
SaaS
Software as a Service
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SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
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SAN
Storage Area Network
220
SAN
Subject Alternative Name
221
SCADA
System Control and Data Acquisition
222
SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
223
SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
224
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
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SDK
Software Development Kit
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SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
227
SDLM
Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
228
SDN
Software Defined Network
229
SED
Self-encrypting Drive
230
SEH
Structured Exception Handler
231
SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
232
SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
233
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
237
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
241
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
242
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
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SoC
System on Chip
244
SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
245
SQL
Structured Query Language
246
SRTP
Secure Real-Time Protocol
247
SSD
Solid State Drive
248
SSH
Secure Shell
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SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
250
SSO
Single Sign-on
251
STP
Shielded Twisted Pair
252
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus
253
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
254
TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
255
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
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TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TOTP
Time-based One-time Password
258
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
259
TSIG
Transaction Signature
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UAT
User Acceptance Testing
261
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
262
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
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UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply
265
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
266
URL
Universal Resource Locator
267
USB
Universal Serial Bus
268
USB OTG
USB On The Go
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UTM
Unified Threat Management
270
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
271
VDE
Virtual Desktop Environment
272
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
273
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
274
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
275
VM
Virtual Machine
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VoIP
Voice over IP
277
VPN
Virtual Private Network
278
VTC
Video Teleconferencing
279
WAF
Web Application Firewall
280
WAP
Wireless Access Point
281
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
282
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
283
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
284
WORM
Write Once Read Many
285
WPA
WiFi Protected Access
286
WPA2
WiFi Protected Access 2
287
WPS
WiFi Protected Setup
288
WTLS
Wireless TLS
289
XML
Extensible Markup Language
290
XOR
Exclusive Or
291
XSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
292
XSS
Cross-site Scripting
