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CompTIA CySA+ - Acronym List Flashcards

1
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ACL

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Access Control List

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API

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Application Programming Interface

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APT

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Advanced Persistent Threat

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol

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AV

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Antivirus

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BC

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Business Continuity

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BCP

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Business Continuity Plan

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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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C2

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Command and Control

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CA

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Certificate Authority

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CASB

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Cloud Access Security Broker

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CDN

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Content Delivery Network

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CERT

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Computer Emergency Response Team

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CHD

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Cardholder Data

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CI/CD

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

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CIS

A

Center for Internet Security

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COBIT

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Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies

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CSIRT

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Cybersecurity Incident Response Team

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CSRF

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Cross-site Request Forgery

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CVE

A

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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CVSS

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Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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DDoS

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Distributed Denial of Service

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DKIM

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Domain Keys Identified Mail

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DLP

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Data Loss Prevention

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DMARC

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Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance

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DNS

A

Domain Name Service

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DoS

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Denial of Service

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DR

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Disaster Recovery

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EDR

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Endpoint Detection and Response

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FIM

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File Integrity Monitoring

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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

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GDB

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GNU Debugger

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GPO

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Group Policy Objects

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HIDS

A

Host-based Intrusion Detection System

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HIPS

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Host-based Intrusion Prevention System

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HTTP

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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HTTPS

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

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39
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IaaS

A

Infrastructure as a Service

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ICMP

A

Internet Control Message Protocol

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ICS

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Industrial Control Systems

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42
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IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

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43
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IoC

A

Indicators of Compromise

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44
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IP

A

Internet Protocol

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IPS

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Intrusion Prevention System

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IR

A

Incident Response

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ISO

A

International Organization for Standardization

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IT

A

Information Technology

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49
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ITIL

A

Information Technology Infrastructure Library

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JSON

A

JavaScript Object Notation

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51
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KPI

A

Key Performance Indicator

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LAN

A

Local Area Network

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LDAPS

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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LFI

A

Local File Inclusion

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LOI

A

Letter of Intent

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MAC

A

Media Access Control

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MFA

A

Multifactor Authentication

58
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MOU

A

Memorandum of Understanding

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MSF

A

Metasploit Framework

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MSP

A

Managed Service Provider

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MSSP

A

Managed Security Service Provider

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MTTD

A

Mean Time to Detect

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MTTR

A

Mean Time to Repair

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NAC

A

Network Access Control

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NDA

A

Non-disclosure Agreement

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NGFW

A

Next-generation Firewall

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NIDS

A

Network-based Intrusion Detection System

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NTP

A

Network Time Protocol

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OpenVAS

A

Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner

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OS

A

Operating System

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OSSTMM

A

Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual

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OT

A

Operational Technology

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OWASP

A

Open Web Application Security Project

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PAM

A

Privileged Access Management

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PCI DSS

A

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

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PHP

A

Hypertext Preprocessor

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PID

A

Process Identifier

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PII

A

Personally Identifiable Information

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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

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PLC

A

Programmable Logic Controller

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POC

A

Proof of Concept

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RCE

A

Remote Code Execution

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RDP

A

Remote Desktop Protocol

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REST

A

Representational State Transfer

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RFI

A

Remote File Inclusion

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RXSS

A

Reflected Cross-site Scripting

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SaaS

A

Software as a Service

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SAML

A

Security Assertion Markup Language

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SASE

A

Secure Access Secure Edge

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SCADA

A

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

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SDLC

A

Software Development Life Cycle

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SDN

A

Software-defined Networking

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SFTP

A

Secure File Transfer Protocol

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SIEM

A

Security Information and Event Management

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SLA

A

Service-level Agreement

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SLO

A

Service-level Objective

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SMB

A

Server Message Block

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SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

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SOAR

A

Security Orchestration Automation and Response

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SOC

A

Security Operations Center

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SPF

A

Sender Policy Framework

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SQL

A

Structured Query Languge

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SSL

A

Secure Sockets Layer

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SSO

A

Single Sign-on

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SSRF

A

Server-side Request Forgery

107
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STIX

A

Structured Threat Information Expression

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SWG

A

Secure Web Gateway

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TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

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TFTP

A

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

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TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

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TRACE

A

Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine

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TTP

A

Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

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UEBA

A

User and Entity Behavior Analytics

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URI

A

Uniform Resource Identifier

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URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

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VLAN

A

Virtual LAN

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VM

A

Virtual Machine

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VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

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WAF

A

Web Application Firewall

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WAN

A

Wide Area Network

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XDR

A

Extended Detection Response

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XML

A

Extensible Markup Language

125
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XSS

A

Cross-site Scripting

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XXE

A

XML External Entity

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ZAP

A

Zed Attack Proxy

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ZTNA

A

Zero Trust Network Access

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