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1
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XSS

A

Cross site scripting

Enables attackers to inject client side scripts into webpages viewed by other users

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PHP

A

Hypertext Pre-processor

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RCE

A

Remote Code Execution

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C2

A

Command and control

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KDC

A

Key Distribution Centre

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TGT

A

Ticket Granting Ticket

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AS-REQ

A

Authentication Service Request

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AS-REP

A

Authentication Service Reply

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SAM

A

Security Account Manager

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LLMNR

A

Local Link Multicast Name Resolution

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RCE

A

Remote Code Execution

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RFI

A

Remote File Inclusion

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3DES

A

Triple Digital Encryption Standard

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AAA

A

Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting

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ACL

A

Access Control List

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AES

A

Advancce Encryption Standard

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AES256

A

Advance Encryption standards 256bit

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AH

A

Authentication Header

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ALE

A

Authorised 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

Advance Persistent Threat

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ASP

A

Application Service Provider

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ARO

A

Annualised Rate of Occurrence

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ARP

A

Address Resolution Protocol

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AUP

A

Acceptable Use Policy

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BAC

A

Business Availability Canter

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BCP

A

Business Continuity Planning

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BIA

A

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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BYOD

A

Bring your own device

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CA

A

Certificate authority

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CAC

A

Common access card

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CAN

A

Controller area network

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CAPTCHA

A

Completely automated public touring test to tell computers and humans apart

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CAR

A

Corrective action report

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CCMP

A

Counter mode/CBC Mac protocol

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CCTV

A

Closed circuit television

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CERT

A

Computer emergency response Team

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CHAP

A

Challenge handshake authentication protocol

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CIO

A

Chief information officer

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CIRT

A

Computer incident response Team

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COOP

A

Continuity of operation planning

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CP

A

Contingency planning

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CRC

A

Cyclical redundancy check

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CRL

A

Certification revocation list

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CSR

A

Control status register

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CSU

A

Channel service unit

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CTO

A

Chief technology officer

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DAC

A

Discretionary access control

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DBA

A

Database administrator

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DDOS

A

Distributor denial of service

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DEP

A

Data execution prevention

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DES

A

Digital encryption standard

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56
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DHCP

A

Dynamic host configuration protocol

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DHE

A

Data handling electronics

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DLL

A

Dynamic link library

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DLP

A

Data loss prevention

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DMZ

A

Demilitarised zone

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DNAT

A

Destination network address transaction

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DNS

A

Domain name service (server)

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DOS

A

Denial of service

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DRP

A

Disaster recovery plan

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DSA

A

Digital signature algorithm

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DSL

A

Digital subscriber line

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DSU

A

Data service unit

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EAP

A

Extensible authentication protocol

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ECC

A

Elliptic curve cryptography

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70
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EFS

A

Encrypted file system

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EMI

A

Electromagnetic interference

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ESN

A

Electronic serial number

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73
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ESP

A

Encapsulated security payload

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FACL

A

File system access control list

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75
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FDE

A

Full disc encryption

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FTP

A

File transfer protocol

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FTPS

A

Secure file transfer protocol

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78
Q

GPG

A

GNU privacy guard

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GPO

A

Group policy object

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GPS

A

Global positioning system

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GPU

A

Graphical processing unit

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GRE

A

Generic routing encapsulation

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83
Q

HDD

A

Hard disk drive

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HIDS

A

Host based intrusion detection system

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HIPS

A

Host based intrusion prevention system

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HMAC

A

Hashed Message Authentication Code

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87
Q

HOTP

A

HMAC based one time password

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88
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HSM

A

Hardware security module

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89
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HTML

A

Hypertext Markup language

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HTTP

A

Hypertext transfer protocol

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91
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HTTPS

A

Hyper transfer protocol over SSL

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92
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HVAC

A

Heating ventilation air conditioning

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IaaS

A

Infrastructure as a service

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ICMP

A

Internet control message protocol

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IDS 

A

Intrusion detection system

96
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IKE

A

Internet key exchange

97
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IMAP4

A

Internet message access protocol V4

98
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IP

A

Internet protocol

99
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IPSEC

A

Internet protocol security

100
Q

IR

A

Incident response

101
Q

IRC

A

Internet relay chat 

102
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IRP

A

Incident response procedure

103
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ISA

A

Interconnection security agreement

104
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ISP

A

Internet service provider

105
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ISSO

A

Information systems security officer

106
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ITCP

A

IT contingency plan

107
Q

IV

A

Initialisation vector

108
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IV

A

Initialisation vector

109
Q

L2TP

A

Layer 2 tunnelling protocol

110
Q

LDAP

A

Lightweight directory access protocol

111
Q

LEAP

A

Lightweight extensible authentication protocol

112
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Maas

A

Monitoring as a service

113
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Maas

A

Monitoring as a service

114
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MAC

A

Mandatory access control/media access control

115
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MAC

A

Mandatory access control/media access control

116
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MAN

A

Metropolitan area network

117
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MBR

A

Master boot record

118
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MD5

A

Message digest five

119
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MPLS

A

Multi protocol layer switch

120
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MSCHAP

A

Microsoft challenge handshake authentication

121
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MTBF

A

Meantime between failures

122
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MTTR

A

Meantime to recover

123
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MTTF

A

Meantime to failure

124
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MTU

A

Maximum transmission unit

125
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NAC

A

Network access control

126
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NAT

A

Network address translation

127
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NDA

A

Non-disclosure agreement

128
Q

NFC

A

Near field communication

129
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NIDS

A

Network based intrusion detection system

130
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NIPS

A

Network based intrusion prevention system

131
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NIST

A

National Institute of standards and technology

132
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NOS

A

Network operating system

133
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NFTS

A

New technology file system

134
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NTLM

A

New technology LANMAN

135
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NTP

A

Network time protocol

136
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OCSP

A

Online certificate status protocol

137
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OLA

A

Open license agreement

138
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OS

A

Operating system

139
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OVAL

A

Open vulnerability assessment language

140
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OWASP

A

Open Webb application security project

141
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P2P

A

Peer to peer

142
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PAC

A

Proxy auto configuration

143
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PAM

A

Pluggable authentication modules

144
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PAP

A

Password authentication protocol

145
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PAT

A

Port address translation

146
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PASTA

A

Process for attack simulation and threat analysis

147
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PBKDF2

A

Password based key derivation function two

148
Q

PBX

A

Private branch exchange

149
Q

PCAP

A

Packet capture

150
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PEAP

A

Protected extensible authentication protocol

151
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PED

A

Personal electronic device

152
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PGP

A

Pretty good privacy

153
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PII

A

Personally identifiable information

154
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PIV

A

Personal identity verification

155
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PKI

A

Public key infrastructure

156
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PPP

A

Point to point protocol

157
Q

PPTP

A

Point to point tunnelling protocol

158
Q

PSK

A

Pre-shared key

159
Q

RA

A

Recovery agent

160
Q

RAD

A

Rapid application development

161
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RADIUS

A

Remote authentication dial in user service

162
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RAID

A

Redundant array of inexpensive discs

163
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RAS

A

Remote access server

164
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RBAC

A

Role -based access control /rule-based access control

165
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RC4

A

RSA variable key size encryption algorithm

166
Q

RIPEMD

A

RACE integrity primitives evaluation message digest

167
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ROI

A

Return of investment

168
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RPO

A

Recovery point objective

169
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RTO

A

Recovery time objective

170
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RTP

A

Real-time transport protocol

171
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S/MIME

A

Secure/multipurpose Internet Mail extensions

172
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SAML

A

Security assertions markup language

173
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SaaS

A

Software as a service

174
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SAN

A

Storage area network

175
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SCADA

A

System control and data acquisition

176
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SCAP

A

Security content automation protocol

177
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SCEP

A

Simple certificate enrolment protocol

178
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SCSI

A

Small computer system interface

179
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SDLC

A

Software development life cycle

180
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SDLM

A

Software development life cycle methodology

181
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SEH

A

Structured exception handler

182
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SHA

A

Secure hashing algorithm

183
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SFTP

A

Secured file transfer protocol

184
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SHTTP

A

Secure hypertext transfer protocol

185
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SIEM

A

Security information and event management

186
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SIM

A

Subscriber identity module

187
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SLA

A

Service level agreement

188
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SLE

A

Single loss expectancy

189
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SMTP

A

Simple mail transfer protocol

190
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SNMP

A

Simple network management protocol

191
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SOAP

A

Simple object access protocol

192
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SONET

A

 synchronous optical network technologies

193
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SPIM

A

Spam over Internet messaging

194
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SQL

A

Structured query language

195
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SSD

A

Solid state Drive

196
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SSH

A

Secure shell

197
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SSL

A

Secure sockets layer

198
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SSO

A

Single sign on

199
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STP

A

Shielded twisted pair

200
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STRIDE

A

Spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, DoS (denial of service), elevation of privilege

201
Q

TACACS+

A

Terminal access controller access control system

202
Q

TCP/IP

A

Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol

203
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TKIP

A

Temporal key integrity protocol

204
Q

TLS

A

Transport layer security

205
Q

TOTP

A

Time based on one time password

206
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TPM

A

Trusted platform module

207
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TSIG

A

Transaction signature

208
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UAT

A

User acceptance testing

209
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UEFI

A

Unified extensible firmware interface

210
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UDP

A

User diagram protocol

211
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UPS

A

Uninterrupted power supply

212
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URI

A

Uniform resource identifier

213
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URL

A

Universal resource locator

214
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USB

A

Universal serial bus

215
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UTM

A

Unified threat management

216
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UTP

A

Unshielded twisted pair

217
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VDI

A

Visualisation desktop infrastructure

218
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VLAN

A

Virtual local area network

219
Q

VOIP

A

Voice over IP

220
Q

VPN

A

Virtual private network

221
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VTC

A

Video teleconferencing

222
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WAF

A

Webb application firewall

223
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WAP

A

Wireless access point

224
Q

WEP

A

Wired equivalent privacy

225
Q

WIDS

A

Wireless intrusion detection system

226
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WIPS

A

Wireless intrusion prevention system

227
Q

WPA

A

Wireless protected access

228
Q

WPA2

A

Wi-Fi protected access 2

229
Q

WPS

A

Wi-Fi protected set up

230
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WTLS

A

Wireless TLS

231
Q

XML

A

Extensible markup language

232
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XSRF

A

Cross site request forgery

233
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EOL

A

End of Life

234
Q

EOSL

A

End of Service Life

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