Acronym List Flashcards
All the necessary acronyms to learn for the exam
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AAA
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Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
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ACL
A
Access Control List
3
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AES
A
Advanced Encryption Standard
4
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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
A
Application Programming Interface
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APT
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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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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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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
A
Basic Input/Output System
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BPA
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Business Partners Agreement
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BPDU
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Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
26
CA
Certificate Authority
27
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
28
CAR
Corrective Action Report
29
CASB
Cloud Access Security Broker
30
CBC
Cipher Block Chaining
31
CCMP
Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol
32
CCTV
Closed-circuit television
33
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
34
CFB
Cipher Feedback
35
CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
36
CIA
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
37
CIO
Chief Information Officer
38
CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
39
CMS
Content Management System
40
COOP
Continuity of Operation Planning
41
COPE
Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled
42
CP
Contingency Planning
43
CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
44
CRL
Certificate Revocation List
45
CSO
Cheif Security Officer
46
CSP
Cloud Service Provider
47
CSR
Certificate Signing Request
48
CSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
49
CSU
Channel Service Unit
50
CTM
Counter Mode
51
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
52
CVE
Common Vulnerability Enumeration
53
CVSS
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
54
CYOD
Choose Your Own Device
55
DAC
Discretionary Access Control
56
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
57
DBA
Database Administrator
58
DEP
Data Execution Prevention
59
DES
Digital Encryption Standard
60
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
61
DHE
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
62
DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail
63
DLL
Dynamic Link Library
64
DLP
Data Loss Prevention
65
DMARC
Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
66
DNAT
Destination Network Address Translation
67
DNS
Domain Name System
68
DoS
Denial of Service
69
DPO
Data Privacy Officer
70
DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
71
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
72
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
73
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
74
ECB
Electronic Code Book
75
ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
76
ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
77
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
78
EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response
79
EFS
Encrypted File System
80
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
81
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
82
ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
83
FACL
File System Access Control List
84
FDE
Full Disk Encryption
85
FIM
File Integrity Management
86
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
87
FRR
False Rejection Rate
88
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
89
FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
90
GCM
Galois Counter Mode
91
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
92
GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
93
GPO
Group Policy Object
94
GPS
Global Positioning System
95
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
96
GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
97
HA
High Availability
98
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
99
HIDS
Host-based Intrusion Detection System
100
HIPS
Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
101
HMAC
Hashed Message Authentication Code
102
HOTP
HMAC-based One-time Password
103
HSM
Hardware Security Module
104
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
105
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
106
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
107
HVAC
Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning
108
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
109
IaC
Infrastructure as Code
110
IAM
Identity and Access Management
111
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
112
ICS
Industrial Control Systems
113
IDEA
International Data Encryption Algorithm
114
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
115
IdP
Identity Provider
116
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
117
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
118
IKE
Internet Key Exchange
119
IM
Instant Messaging
120
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
121
IoC
Indicator of Compromise
122
IoT
Internet of Things
123
IP
Internet Protocol
124
IPS
Intrusion Prevention System
125
IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
126
IR
Incident Response
127
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
128
IRP
Incident Response Plan
129
ISO
International Standards Organization
130
ISP
Internet Service Provider
131
ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
132
IV
Initialization Vector
133
KDC
Key Distribution Center
134
KEK
Key Encryption Key
135
L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
136
LAN
Local Area Network
137
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
138
LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
139
Maas
Monitoring as a Service
140
MAC
Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control or Message Authentication Code
141
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
142
MBR
Master Boot Record
143
MD5
Message Digest 5
144
MDF
Main Distribution Frame
145
MDM
Mobile Device Management
146
MFA
Multifactor Authentication
147
MFD
Multifunction Device
148
MFP
Multifunction Printer
149
ML
Machine Learning
150
MMS
Multimedia Message Service
151
MOA
Memorandum of Agreement
152
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
153
MPLS
Multi-protocol Label Switching
154
MSA
Master Service Agreement
155
MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
156
MSP
Managed Service Provider
157
MSSP
Managed Security Service Provider
158
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
159
MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
160
MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
161
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
162
NAC
Network Access Control
163
NAT
Network Address Translation
164
NDA
Non-disclosure Agreement
165
NFC
Near Field Communication
166
NGFW
Next-generation Firewall
167
NIDS
Network-based Intrusion Detection System
168
NIPS
Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
169
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
170
NTFS
New Technology File System
171
NTLM
New Technology LAN Manager
172
NTP
Network Time Protocol
173
OAUTH
Open Authorization
174
OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
175
OID
Object Identifier
176
OS
Operating System
177
OSINT
Open-source Intelligence
178
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
179
OT
Operational Technology
180
OTA
Over the Air
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
182
P12
PKCS #12
183
P2P
Peer to Peer
184
PaaS
Platform as a Service
185
PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
186
PAM
Privileged Access Management or Pluggable Authentication Modules
187
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
188
PAT
Port Address Translation
189
PBKDF2
Password-based Key Derivation Function 2
190
PBX
Private Branch Exchange
191
PCAP
Packet Capture
192
PCI DSS
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
193
PDU
Power Distribution Unit
194
PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
195
PED
Personal Electronic Device
196
PEM
Personal Electronic Device
197
PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
198
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
199
PHI
Personal Health Information
200
PII
Personally Identifiable Information
201
PIV
Personal Identity Verification
202
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
203
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
204
POP
Post Office Protocol
205
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
206
PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol
207
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
208
PSK
Pre-shared Key
209
PTZ
Pan-tilt-zoom
210
PUP
Potentially Unwanted Program
211
RA
Recovery Agent or Registration Authority
212
RACE
Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
213
RAD
Rapid Application Development
214
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service
215
RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
216
RAS
Remote Access Server
217
RAT
Remote Access Trojan
218
RBAC
Role-based Access Control or Ruel-based Access Control
219
RC4
Rivest Cipher version 4
220
RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
221
RFID
Radio Frequency Identifier
222
RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
223
ROI
Return on Investment
224
RPO
Recovery Point Objective
225
RSA
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
226
RTBH
Remotely Triggered Black Hole
227
RTO
Recovery Time Objective
228
RTOS
Real-time Operating System
229
RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
230
S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
231
SaaS
Software as a Service
232
SAE
Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
233
SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
234
SAN
Storage Area Network or Subject Alternative Name
235
SASE
Secure Access Service Edge
236
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
237
SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
238
SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
239
SD-WAN
Software-defined Wide Area Network
240
SDK
Software Development Kit
241
SDLC
Software Development Lifecycle
242
SDLM
Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
243
SDN
Software-defined Networking
244
SE Linux
Security-enhanced Linux
245
SED
Self-encrypting Drives
246
SEH
Structured Exception Handler
247
SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
248
SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
249
SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
250
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
251
SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
252
SLA
Service-level Agreement
253
SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
254
SMS
Short Message Service
255
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
256
SMTPS
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure
257
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
258
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
259
SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation, Response
260
SoC
System on Chip
261
SOC
Security Operations Center
262
SOW
Statement of Work
263
SPF
Sender Policy Framework
264
SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
265
SQL
Structured Query Language
266
SQLi
SQL Injection
267
SRTP
Secure Real-Time Protocol
268
SSD
Solid State Drive
269
SSH
Secure Shell
270
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
271
SSO
Single Sign-on
272
STIX
Structured Threat Information eXchange
273
SWG
Secure Web Gateway
274
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
275
TAXII
Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information
276
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
277
TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
278
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
279
TLS
Transport Layer Security
280
TOC
Time-of-check
281
TOTP
Time-based One-time Password
282
TOU
Time-of-use
283
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
284
TTP
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
285
TSIG
Transaction Signature
286
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
287
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
288
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
289
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
290
UEM
Unified Endpoint Mangement
291
UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply
292
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
293
URL
Universal Resource Locator
294
USB
Universal Serial Bus
295
USB OTG
USB On the Go
296
UTM
Unified Threat Management
297
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
298
VBA
Visual Basic
299
VDE
Virtual Desktop Environment
300
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
301
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
302
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
303
VM
Virtual Machine
304
VoIP
Voice over IP
305
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
306
VPN
Virtual Private Network
307
VTC
Video Teleconferencing
308
WAF
Web Application Firewall
309
WAP
Wireless Access Point
310
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
311
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
312
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
313
WO
Work Order
314
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
315
WPS
Wi-Fi Protected Setup
316
WTLS
Wireless TLS
317
XDR
Extended Detection and Response
318
XML
Extensible Markup Language
319
XOR
Exclusive Or
320
XSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
321
XSS
Cross-site Scripting
