Acronyms Flashcards

Familiarize yourself with CompTIA Security+ Acronyms

1
Q

ASLR

A

Address

Space

Layout

Randomize

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2
Q

ASP

A

Application

Service

Provider

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3
Q

BAC

A

Business

Availability

Center

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4
Q

CAR

A

Corrective

Action

Report

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5
Q

CASB

A

Cloud

Access

Security

Broker

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6
Q

CERT

A

Comp

Emergency

Response

Team

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7
Q

CIRT

A

Comp

Incident

Response

Team

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8
Q

COOP

A

Continuity

Of

Operations

Plan

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9
Q

COPE

A

Corp

Owned

Personally

Enabled

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10
Q

CP

A

Contingency

Planning

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11
Q

CSIRT

A

Comp Sec

Incident

Response

Team

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12
Q

CSP

A

Cloud

Service

Provider

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13
Q

CYOD

A

Choose

Your

Own

Device

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14
Q

DEP

A

Data

Execution

Prevention

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15
Q

DER

A

Distinguished

Encoding

Rules -certs

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16
Q

DFIR

A

Digital

Forensics & Investigation

Response

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17
Q

ECDHE

A

Ellipitical

Curve & Diffie

Hellman Ephemeral

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18
Q

ECB

A

Electronic

Code

Book

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19
Q

FACL

A

File system

Access

Control

List

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20
Q

FDE

A

Full

Disk

Encryption

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21
Q

ICS

A

Industrial

Control

System

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22
Q

IdP

A

Identity

Provider

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23
Q

IR

A

Incident

Response

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24
Q

IRP

A

Incident

Response

Plan

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25
Q

ISA

A

Interconnection

Security

Agreement

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26
Q

ISSO

A

Information

Systems

Security

Officer

27
Q

ITCP

A

IT

Contingency

Plan

28
Q

KEK

A

Key

Encryption

Key

29
Q

MaaS

A

Monitor

As

A

Service

30
Q

MFA

A

Multi

Factor

Authentication

31
Q

MOA

A

Memorandum

Of

Agreement

32
Q

MOU

A

Memorandum

Of

Understanding

33
Q

NGAC

A

Next

Gen

Access

Control

34
Q

OID

A

Oobject

IDentifier

(Cert and SNMP)

35
Q

PAC

A

Proxy

Auto

Configuration

36
Q

PAM

A

Pluggable

Authentication

Modules

37
Q

PED

A

Personal

Electronic

Device

38
Q

PFX

A

Personal

Exchange

Format

(Cert)

39
Q

PHI

A

Personal

Health

Information

40
Q

PII

A

Personally

Identifiable

Information

41
Q

POODLE

A

Padding Oracle On Downgrade Legacy Encryption

42
Q

RAD

A

Rapid

Application

Development

43
Q

REST

A

Representational

State

Transfer

44
Q

RMF

A

Risk

Management

Framework

45
Q

RTOS

A

Real

Time

Operating

System

46
Q

SCADA

A

System Control And

Data Aquisition

47
Q

SCAP

A

Security Content Automation

Protocol

48
Q

SCEP

A

Simple

Cert

Enrollment

Protocol

49
Q

SDLM

A

Software

Dev

Lifecycle

Management

50
Q

SED

A

Self

Encrypting

Drive

51
Q

SIEM

A

Security

Info &

Event

Management

52
Q

SoC

A

System

On

Chip

53
Q

SPoF

A

Single

Point

Of

Failure

54
Q

SSP

A

System

Security

Plan

55
Q

UAT

A

User

Acceptance

Training

56
Q

URI

A

Uniform

Resource

Identifier

57
Q

OTG

A

On

The

Go

58
Q

VDE

A

Virtual

Desk

Environment

59
Q

VTC

A

Video

TeleConferencing

60
Q

WIDS

A

Wireless

IDS

61
Q

WIPS

A

Wireless

IPS

62
Q

WPS

A

WiFi

Protected

Setup

63
Q

WTLS

A

Wireless

TLS

64
Q

XOR

A

Exclusive

OR