Acronyms Flashcards
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3DES
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Triple Digital Encryption Standard
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AAA
A
Authentication Authorization and Accounting
3
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ACL
A
Access Control List
4
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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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ASP
A
Application Service Provider
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ARO
A
Annualized Rate of Occurrence
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
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AUP
A
Accepted Use Policy
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BAC
A
Business Availability Center
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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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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
A
Common Access Card
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CAN
A
Controller Area Network
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CAPTCHA
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Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAR
Corrective Action Report
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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
30
CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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CIO
Chief Information Officer
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CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
33
CMS
Content Management System
34
COOP
Continuity of Operation Planning
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CP
Continuity Planning
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CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
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CRL
Certificate Signing Request
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CSP
Cloud Service Provider
39
CSP
Control Status Register
40
CSRF
Cross Site Request Forgery
41
CSU
Channel Service Unit
42
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
43
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
49
DHE
Data-Handling Electronics
50
DHE
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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DLL
Dynamic Link Library
52
DLP
Data Loss Prevention
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DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
54
DNAT
Destination Network Address Translation
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DNS
Domain Name Service (Server)
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DOS
Denial of Service
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DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
58
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
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ECC
Elliptical Curve Cryptography
63
ECDHE
Elliptical Curve Cryptography
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ECDSA
Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
65
EFS
Encrypted File System
66
EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
67
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
68
ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
69
FACL
File System Access Control List
70
FDE
Full Disk Encryption
71
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
72
FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
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GCM
Galois Counter Mode
74
GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
75
GPO
Group Policy Object
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GPS
Global Positioning System
77
GPU
Graphic Processing Unit
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GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
79
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
80
HIDS
Host Based Intrusion Detection System
81
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
85
HTML
Hyptertext Markup Language
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HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL
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HVAC
Heating, Ventilation 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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IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
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IdP
Identity Provider
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IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
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IM
Instant Messaging
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IMAP4
Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4
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IP
Internet Protocol
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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 Procedure
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ISA
Interconnection Security Agreement
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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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JBOD
Just a Bunch of Disks
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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
112
LAN
Local Area Network
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
114
LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
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MAC
Mandatory Access Control / Media Access Control
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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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MITM
Man in the Middle
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MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPLS
Multi-Protocol Layer Switch
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MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Hanshake Authentication Protocol
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
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MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
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MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
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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
133
NFC
Near Field Communication
134
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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NOS
Network Operating System
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NTFS
New Technology File System
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NTLM
New Technology LANMAN
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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OAUTH
Open Authorization
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OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
143
OLA
Open License Agreement
144
OS
Operating System
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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P2P
Peer to Peer
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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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PFS
Perfect Forward Security
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PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
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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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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 Agent
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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 Inexpensive Disks
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RAS
Remote Access Server
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RBAC
Role-Based Access Control
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RBAC
Rule-Based Access Control
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RC4
RSA Variable Key Size Encryption Algorithm
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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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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RTP
Real-Time Transport Protocol
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S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
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SaaS
Software as a Service
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SAN
Storage Area Network
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SCADA
System 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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SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
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SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
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SDLM
Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
191
SEH
Structured Exception Handler
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SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
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SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
194
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 Transport Protocol
200
SMTPS
Simple Mail Transport Protocol Secure
201
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
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SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
203
SONET
Synchronous Optical Network Technologies
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SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
205
SQL
Structured Query Language
206
SSD
Solid State Drive
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SSH
Secure Shell
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SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
209
SSO
Single Sign On
210
STP
Shielded Twisted Pair
211
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
212
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol
213
TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
214
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
215
TLS
Transport Layer Security
216
TOTP
Time Based One Time Password
217
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
218
TSIG
Transaction Signature
219
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
220
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
221
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
222
UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supple
223
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
224
URL
Universal Resource Locator
225
USB
Universal Serial Bus
226
UTM
Unified Threat Management
227
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
228
VDI
Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure
229
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
230
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
231
VoIP
Voice over IP
232
VPN
Virtual Private Network
233
VTC
Video Teleconferencing
234
WAF
Web-Application Firewall
235
WAP
Wireless Access Point
236
WEP
Wired Equivalency Protocol
237
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
238
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
239
WPA
Wireless Protected Access
240
WPA2
WiFi Protected Access 2
241
WPS
WiFi Protected Setup
242
WTLS
Wireless TLS
243
XML
Extensible Markup Language
244
XSRF
Cross-Site Request Forgery
245
XSS
Cross-Site Scripting
