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CompTia SY0-400 Acronyms Flashcards

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3DES

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Triple Digital Encryption Standard

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AAA

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Authentication Authorization and Accounting

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ACL

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Access Control List

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AES

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Advanced Encryption Standard

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AES256

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Advanced Encryption Standards 256bit

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AH

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Authentication Header

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ALE

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Annualized Loss Expectancy

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AP

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Access Point

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API

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Application Programming Interface

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ASP

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Application Service Provider

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ARO

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Annualized Rate of Occurrence

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol

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AUP

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Accepted Use Policy

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BAC

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Business Availability Center

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BCP

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Business Continuity Planning

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BIA

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Business Impact analysis

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BIOS

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Basic Input/Output System

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BPA

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Business Partners Agreement

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BPDU

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Bridge Protocol Data Unit

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BYOD

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Bring Your Own Device

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CA

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Certificate Authority

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CAC

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Common Access Card

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CAN

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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

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Corrective Action Report

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CCMP

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Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol

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CCTV

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Closed-Circuit Television

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CERT

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Computer Emergency Response Team

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CFB

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Cipher Feedback

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CHAP

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Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

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CIO

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Chief Information Officer

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CIRT

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Computer Incident Response Team

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CMS

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Content Management System

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COOP

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Continuity of Operation Planning

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CP

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Continuity Planning

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CRC

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Cyclical Redundancy Check

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CRL

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Certificate Signing Request

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CSP

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Cloud Service Provider

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CSP

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Control Status Register

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CSRF

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Cross Site Request Forgery

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CSU

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Channel Service Unit

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CTO

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Chief Technology Officer

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DAC

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Discretionary Access Control

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DBA

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Database Administrator

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DDOS

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Distributed Denial of Service

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DEP

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Data Execution Prevention

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DES

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Digital Encryption Standard

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DHCP

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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DHE

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Data-Handling Electronics

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DHE

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Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral

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DLL

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Dynamic Link Library

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52
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DLP

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Data Loss Prevention

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DMZ

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Demilitarized Zone

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54
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DNAT

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Destination Network Address Translation

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DNS

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Domain Name Service (Server)

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DOS

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Denial of Service

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57
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DRP

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Disaster Recovery Plan

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58
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DSA

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Digital Signature Algorithm

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DSL

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Digital Subscriber Line

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DSU

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Data Service Unit

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EAP

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Extensible Authentication Protocol

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ECC

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Elliptical Curve Cryptography

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63
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ECDHE

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Elliptical Curve Cryptography

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ECDSA

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Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

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65
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EFS

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Encrypted File System

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EMI

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Electromagnetic Interference

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ESN

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Electronic Serial Number

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ESP

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Encapsulated Security Payload

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FACL

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File System Access Control List

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70
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FDE

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Full Disk Encryption

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71
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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

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72
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FTPS

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Secured File Transfer Protocol

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GCM

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Galois Counter Mode

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GPG

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Gnu Privacy Guard

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GPO

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Group Policy Object

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GPS

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Global Positioning System

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GPU

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Graphic Processing Unit

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GRE

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Generic Routing Encapsulation

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HDD

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Hard Disk Drive

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80
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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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HMAC

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Hashed Message Authentication Code

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HOTP

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HMAC based One Time Password

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HSM

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Hardware Security Module

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HTML

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Hyptertext Markup Language

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HTTP

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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87
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HTTPS

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL

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HVAC

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Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service

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ICMP

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Internet Control Message Protocol

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ICS

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Industrial Control Systems

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ID

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Identification

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IDF

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Intermediate Distribution Frame

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IdP

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Identity Provider

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IDS

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Intrusion Detection System

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IKE

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Internet Key Exchange

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IM

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Instant Messaging

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98
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IMAP4

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Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4

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IP

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Internet Protocol

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IPSEC

A

Internet Protocol Security

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IR

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Incident Response

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IRC

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Internet Relay Chat

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IRP

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Incident Response Procedure

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ISA

A

Interconnection Security Agreement

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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

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ISSO

A

Information Systems Security Officer

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IV

A

Initialization Vector

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JBOD

A

Just a Bunch of Disks

109
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KDC

A

Key Distribution Center

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KEK

A

Key Encryption Key

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L2TP

A

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

112
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LAN

A

Local Area Network

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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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LEAP

A

Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

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MaaS

A

Monitoring as a Service

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MAC

A

Mandatory Access Control / Media Access Control

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MAC

A

Message Authentication Code

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MAN

A

Metropolitan Area Network

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MBR

A

Master Boot Record

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MD5

A

Message Digest 5

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MDF

A

Main Distribution Frame

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MITM

A

Man in the Middle

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MOU

A

Memorandum of Understanding

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MPLS

A

Multi-Protocol Layer Switch

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MSCHAP

A

Microsoft Challenge Hanshake Authentication Protocol

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MTBF

A

Mean Time Between Failures

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MTTR

A

Mean Time to Recover

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MTTF

A

Mean Time to Failure

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MTU

A

Maximum Transmission Unit

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NAC

A

Network Access Control

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NAT

A

Network Address Translation

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NDA

A

Non-Disclosure Agreement

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NFC

A

Near Field Communication

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NIDS

A

Network Based Intrusion Detection System

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NIPS

A

Network Based Intrusion Prevention System

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NIST

A

National Institute of Standards & Technology

137
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NOS

A

Network Operating System

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NTFS

A

New Technology File System

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NTLM

A

New Technology LANMAN

140
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NTP

A

Network Time Protocol

141
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OAUTH

A

Open Authorization

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OCSP

A

Online Certificate Status Protocol

143
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OLA

A

Open License Agreement

144
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OS

A

Operating System

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OVAL

A

Open Vulnerability Assessment Language

146
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P2P

A

Peer to Peer

147
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PAC

A

Proxy Auto Configuration

148
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PAM

A

Pluggable Authentication Modules

149
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PAP

A

Password Authentication Protocol

150
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PAT

A

Port Address Translation

151
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PBKDF2

A

Password Based Key Derivation Function 2

152
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PBX

A

Private Branch Exchange

153
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PCAP

A

Packet Capture

154
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PEAP

A

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

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PED

A

Personal Electronic Device

156
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PFS

A

Perfect Forward Security

157
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PGP

A

Pretty Good Privacy

158
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PII

A

Personally Identifiable Information

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PIV

A

Personal Identity Verification

160
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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

161
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POTS

A

Plain Old Telephone Service

162
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PPP

A

Point to Point Protocol

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PPTP

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Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

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PSK

A

Pre-Shared Key

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PTZ

A

Pan-Tilt-Zoom

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RA

A

Recovery Agent

167
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RA

A

Registration Agent

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RAD

A

Rapid Application Development

169
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RADIUS

A

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

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RAID

A

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

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RAS

A

Remote Access Server

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RBAC

A

Role-Based Access Control

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RBAC

A

Rule-Based Access Control

174
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RC4

A

RSA Variable Key Size Encryption Algorithm

175
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RIPEMD

A

RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest

176
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ROI

A

Return on Investment

177
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RPO

A

Recovery Point Objective

178
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RSA

A

Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman

179
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RTO

A

Recovery Time Objective

180
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RTP

A

Real-Time Transport Protocol

181
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S/MIME

A

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

182
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SAML

A

Security Assertions Markup Language

183
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SaaS

A

Software as a Service

184
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SAN

A

Storage Area Network

185
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SCADA

A

System Control and Data Acquisition

186
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SCAP

A

Security Content Automation Protocol

187
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SCEP

A

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

188
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SCSI

A

Small Computer System Interface

189
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SDLC

A

Software Development Life Cycle

190
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SDLM

A

Software Development Life Cycle Methodology

191
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SEH

A

Structured Exception Handler

192
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SHA

A

Secure Hashing Algorithm

193
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SFTP

A

Secured File Transfer Protocol

194
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SIEM

A

Security Information and Event Management

195
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SIM

A

Subscriber Identity Module

196
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SLA

A

Service Level Agreement

197
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SLE

A

Single Loss Expectancy

198
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SMS

A

Short Message Service

199
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SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transport Protocol

200
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SMTPS

A

Simple Mail Transport Protocol Secure

201
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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

202
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SOAP

A

Simple Object Access Protocol

203
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SONET

A

Synchronous Optical Network Technologies

204
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SPIM

A

Spam over Internet Messaging

205
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SQL

A

Structured Query Language

206
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SSD

A

Solid State Drive

207
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SSH

A

Secure Shell

208
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SSL

A

Secure Sockets Layer

209
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SSO

A

Single Sign On

210
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STP

A

Shielded Twisted Pair

211
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TACACS+

A

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

212
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TCP/IP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

213
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TGT

A

Ticket Granting Ticket

214
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TKIP

A

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

215
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TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

216
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TOTP

A

Time Based One Time Password

217
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TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

218
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TSIG

A

Transaction Signature

219
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UAT

A

User Acceptance Testing

220
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UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

221
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UDP

A

User Datagram Protocol

222
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UPS

A

Uninterruptable Power Supple

223
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URI

A

Uniform Resource Identifier

224
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URL

A

Universal Resource Locator

225
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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

226
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UTM

A

Unified Threat Management

227
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UTP

A

Unshielded Twisted Pair

228
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VDI

A

Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure

229
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VLAN

A

Virtual Local Area Network

230
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VLSM

A

Variable Length Subnet Masking

231
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VoIP

A

Voice over IP

232
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VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

233
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VTC

A

Video Teleconferencing

234
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WAF

A

Web-Application Firewall

235
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WAP

A

Wireless Access Point

236
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WEP

A

Wired Equivalency Protocol

237
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WIDS

A

Wireless Intrusion Detection System

238
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WIPS

A

Wireless Intrusion Prevention System

239
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WPA

A

Wireless Protected Access

240
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WPA2

A

WiFi Protected Access 2

241
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WPS

A

WiFi Protected Setup

242
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WTLS

A

Wireless TLS

243
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XML

A

Extensible Markup Language

244
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XSRF

A

Cross-Site Request Forgery

245
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XSS

A

Cross-Site Scripting

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