Acronyms Flashcards
ACL
Access Control List
(router, firewall, switch, IPtables ACL, etc.)
BIA
Business Impact Analysis
CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
COBIT
Control Objectives for information and Related Technology
CoC
Chain of Custody
COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
CSIRT
Computer Security Incident Response Team
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocols
DNSBL
DNS-based Blackhole List
DoS/DDoS
Denial of Service
Distributed Denial of Service
FoW
Fog of War
GPG
GNU Privacy Guard
GSE
GIAC Security Expert
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
IRP
Incident Response Process
IRT
Incident Response Team (or CIRT)
LEA
Law Enforcement Agency
MAC
Media Access Control (usually LAN card Address)
MX
Mail Exchange (DNS Record Type)
NAT
Network Address Translation
NCSL
National Conference of State Legislatures (USA) - maintains list of data breach laws.
NIST SP
National Institute of Standards Special Publication.
NTP
Network Time Protocol (NTP v4 RFC 5905)
PAO
Public Affairs Officer
PHI
Personal Health Information
PII
Personally Identifiable Information
RBL
Real-time Blackhole List
SIFT
SANS Investigate Forensic Toolkit
SMB
Server Message Block
SME
Subject Matter Expert
SURBL
Spam URI RNL
TCT
The Coroner’s Toolkit; superseded by Sleuthkit / Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TTC
Time To Crack
VOIP
Voice over IP
WFT
Windows Forensic Toolchest - foolmoon.net