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AUP

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Acceptable Use Policy

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ACL

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Access Control List

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AP

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Access Point

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol

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APT

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Advanced Persistent Threat

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GCMP

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AES Galois Counter Mode Protocol

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ALE

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Annualized Loss Expectancy

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ARO

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Annualized Rate of Occurrence

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A-V

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Anti-Virus

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AAA

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Authentication
Authorization
Accounting

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BYOD

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Bring Your Own Device

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BC

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Business Continuity

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BEC

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Business E-mail Compromise

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BIA

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Business Impact Analysis

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BPA

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Business Partnership Agreement

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CRL

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Certificate Revocation List

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CSR

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Certificate Signing Request

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CIO

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Chief Information Officer

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CSO

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Chief Security Officer

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CTO

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Chief Technology Officer

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CYOD

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Choose Your Own Device

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CIA Triad

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Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
(Non-Repudiation)

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CSP

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Cloud Service Provider

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C2

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Command and Control

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CN

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Common Name

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CVE

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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CVSS

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Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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CIRT

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Computer Incident Response Team

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CBT

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Computer-Based Training

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COOP

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Continuity of Operations Plan

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COBO

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Corporate Owned, Business Only

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32
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COPE

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Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled

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33
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CSRF

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Cross-site Request Forgery

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XSS

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Cross-Site Scripting

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CTI

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Cyber Threat Intelligence

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CSF

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Cybersecurity Framework

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DLP

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Data Loss Prevention

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DoS

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Denial of Service Attack

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39
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DevSecOps

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Development
Security
Operations

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40
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DH

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Diffie-Hellman

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41
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DR

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Disaster Recovery

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42
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DAC

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Discretionary Access Control

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DN

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Distinguished Name

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44
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DDoS

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Distributed Denial-of-Service

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45
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DRDoS

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Distributed Reflected DoS

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46
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DNS

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Domain Name System

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DOM

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Document Object Model

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DNSSEC

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Domain Name System Security Extensions

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DMARC

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Domain-based Message authentication, Reporting, and Conformance

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50
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DKIM

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DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)

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51
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ESP

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Encapsulating Security Payload

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EDR

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Endpoint Detection and Response

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53
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ERM

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Enterprise Risk Management

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54
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EF

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Exposure Factor

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55
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EAP

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Extensible Authentication Protocol

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56
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EAPoL

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Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN

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57
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XML

A

eXtensible Markup Language

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FAR

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False Acceptance Rate

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59
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FRR

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False Rejection Rate

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60
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FIM

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File Integrity Monitoring

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61
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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

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62
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FTPS

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File Transfer Protocol Secure

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63
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FDE

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Full Disk Encryption

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GPS

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Global Positioning System

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GPO

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Group Policy Object

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HMAC

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Hash-Based Message Authentication Code

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67
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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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HA

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High Availability

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HIDS

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Host-Based Intrusion Detection System

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HIPS

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Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System

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71
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HMI

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Human-Machine Interface

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72
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IAM

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Identity and Access Management

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73
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IRP

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Incident Response Plan

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IoC

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Indicator of Compromise

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IPS

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Indoor Positioning System

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ICS

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Industrial Control System

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ISAC

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Information Sharing and Analysis Center

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service

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IaC

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Infrastructure as Code

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80
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IKE

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Internet Key Exchange

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81
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IMAP

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Internet Message Access Protocol

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IoT

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Internet of Things

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IP

A

Internet Protocol

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IPSec

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Internet Protocol Security

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IRC

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Internet Relay Chat

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IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

87
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IPS

A

Intrusion Prevention System

88
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IPFIX

A

IP Flow Information Export

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ITIL

A

IT Infrastructure Library

90
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JSON

A

JavaScript Object Notation

91
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KDC

A

Key Distribution Centre

92
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KEK

A

Key Encryption Key

93
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KRI

A

Key Risk Indicator

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LLR

A

Lessons Learned Report

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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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ML

A

Machine Learning

97
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MAC

A

Mandatory Access Control

98
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MSA

A

Master Service Agreement

99
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MTD

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Maximum Tolerable Downtime

100
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MTBF

A

Mean Time Between Failures

101
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MTTR

A

Mean Time to Repair/Replace/Recover

102
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MAC Filtering

A

Media Access Control Filtering

103
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MoA

A

Memorandum of Agreement

104
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MoU

A

Memorandum of Understanding

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MD5

A

Message Digest Algorithm version 5

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MEF

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Mission Essential Function

107
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MDM

A

Mobile Device Management

108
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MFA

A

Multifactor Authentication

109
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NIST

A

National Institute of Standards and Technology

110
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NFC

A

Near-Field Communication

111
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NAC

A

Network Access Control

112
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NBAD

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Network Behavior Anomaly Detection

113
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NFV

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Network Functions Virtualization

114
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NGFW

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Next-Generation Firewall

115
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NDA

A

Nondisclosure Agreement

116
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NTLM Authentication

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Windows New Technology LAN Manager Authentication

117
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OTP

A

One-Time Password

118
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OCSP

A

Online Certificate Status Protocol

119
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OAuth

A

Open Authorization

120
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OSINT

A

Open-Source Intelligence

121
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OOB Management

A

Out of Band Management

122
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PCI DSS

A

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

123
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PFS

A

Perfect Forward Secrecy

124
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PAN

A

Personal Area Network

125
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PIN

A

Personal Identification Number

126
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PaaS

A

Platform as a Service

127
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PAM

A

Pluggable Authentication Module

128
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PPTP

A

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

129
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SPAN

A

Switched Port Analyzer

130
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POP

A

Post Office Protocol

131
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PUP

A

Potentially Unwanted Program

132
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PDU

A

Power Distribution Unit

133
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PSK

A

Pre-shared key

134
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PAM

A

Privileged Access Management

135
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PKCS

A

Public Key Cryptography Standards

136
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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

137
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RFID

A

Radio-Frequency ID

138
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RTOS

A

Real-Time Operating System

139
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RPO

A

Recovery Point Objective

140
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RTO

A

Recovery Time Objective

141
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RAT

A

Remote Access Trojan

142
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RADIUS

A

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

143
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RCE

A

Remote Code Execution

144
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RDP

A

Remote Desktop Protocol

145
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REST

A

Representational State Transfer

146
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RBAC

A

Role-Based Access Control

147
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ROE

A

Rules of Engagement

148
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SOX

A

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

149
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SASE

A

Secure Access Service Edge

150
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SFTP

A

Secure File Transfer Protocol

151
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SHA

A

Secure Hash Algorithm

152
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SSH

A

Secure Shell

153
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SAML

A

Security Assertion Markup Language

154
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SCAP

A

Security Content Automation Protocol

155
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SID

A

Security Identifier

156
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SIEM

A

Security Information and Event Management

157
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SELinux

A

Security-Enhanced Linux

158
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SED

A

Self-Encrypting Drive

159
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SPF

A

Sender Policy Framework

160
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SSRF

A

Server-Side Request Forgery

161
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SLA

A

Service Level Agreement

162
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SSID

A

Service Set Identifier

163
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SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

164
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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

165
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SOAP

A

Simple Object Access Protocol

166
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SAE

A

Simultaneous Authentication of Equals

167
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SLE

A

Single Loss Expectancy

168
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SPoF

A

Single Point of Failure

169
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SSO

A

Single Sign-On

170
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SaaS

A

Software as a Service

171
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SBOM

A

Software Bill of Materials

172
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SCA

A

Software Composition Analysis

173
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SD-WAN

A

Softwared Defined WAN

174
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SDLC

A

Software Development Life Cycle

175
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SDN

A

Software-Defined Networking

176
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SOW

A

Statement of Work

177
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SEH

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Structured Exception Handler

178
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SQL Injection

A

Structured Query Language Injection

179
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SAN

A

Subject Alternative Name

180
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SCADA

A

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

181
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TTP

A

Tactics
Techniques
Procedures

182
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TKIP

A

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

183
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TAP

A

Test Access Point

184
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TGT

A

Ticket Granting Ticket

185
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TOCTOU

A

Time Of Check to Time Of Use

186
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TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

187
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TLS VPN

A

Transport Layer Security Virtual Private Network

188
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TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

189
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UTM

A

Unified Threat Management

190
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URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

191
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UPS

A

Uninterruptible Power Supply

192
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UEBA

A

User and Entity Behavior Analytics

193
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VLAN

A

Virtual Local Area Network

194
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VNC

A

Virtual Network Computing

195
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VPC

A

Virtual Private Cloud

196
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VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

197
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WAF

A

Web Application Firewall

198
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WPA

A

Wi-Fi Protected Access

199
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WPS

A

Wi-Fi Protected Set-Up

200
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WEP

A

Wired Equivalent Privacy

201
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WRT

A

Work Recovery Time

202
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ISA

A

Interconnection Security Agreements

203
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WAN

A

Wide Area Network

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