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CYB SEC ACRONYMS Flashcards

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MAC

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Media Access Control

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IP

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Internal Protocol Address

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TCP

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Transmission Control Protocol

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol

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UDP

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User Datagram Protocol

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HTTPS

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

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SMTP

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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SSH

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Secure Shell

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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

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DNS

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Domain Name System

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CSP

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Cloud Service Provider

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NCP

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Network Control Protocol

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HDLC

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High Level Data Link Control

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SDLC

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Synchronous Data Link Control Protocol

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15
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VPN

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Virtual Private Networks

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SNMP

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Simple Network Management Protocol

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ICMP

A

Internet Control Message Protocol

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AES

A

Advanced Encryption Standard

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IANA

A

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

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NAT

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Network Address Translation

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21
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DHCP

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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22
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POP

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Post Office Protocol

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23
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MTA

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Message Transfer Agent

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IEEE

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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

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WPA

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Wifi Protected Access

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TKIP

A

Temporary Key Integrity Protocol

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27
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CCMP

A

Counter Mode Cipher Block Chain Message Authentication Code Protocol

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SAE

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Simultaneous Authentication of Equals

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IMAP

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Internet Message Access Protocol

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SFTP

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Secure File Transfer Protocol

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WEP

A

Wired Equivalent Privacy

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32
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FaaS

A

Firewall as a Service

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NGFW

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Next Generation Firewall

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34
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DMZ

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Demilitarized Zone

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35
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CIDR

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing

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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

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Dos

A

Denial of Service

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DFIR

A

Digital Forensic and Incident Response

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DDoS

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Distributed Denial of Service

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SYN

A

Synchronized

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IM

A

Instant Messaging

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NIC

A

Network Interface Card

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OS

A

Operating System

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MFA

A

Multi-Factor Authenticator

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VM

A

Virtual Machines

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CAPTCHA

A

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

47
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IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

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IPS

A

Intrusion Prevention System

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IAM

A

Identity Access Management

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TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

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CloudHSM

A

Cloud Hardware Security Module

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BIOS

A

Basic Input/Output System

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UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

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KVM

A

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine

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GUI

A

Graphical User Interface

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FHS

A

FileSystem Hierarchy Standard

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CPU

A

Central Processing Unit

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RAM

A

Random Access Memory

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APT

A

Advanced Package Tool

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YUM

A

Yellowdog Updater Modified

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SaaS

A

Software as a Service

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PaaS

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Platform as a Service

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service

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GDPR

A

General Data Protection Regulation

65
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PCI DSS

A

Payment Card Industry Data Service Standard

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HIPAA

A

Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act

67
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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

68
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CA

A

Certificate Authority

69
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(3)DES

A

(Triple) Data Encryption Standards

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RSA

A

Rivest Shamir Adleman

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DSA

A

Digital Signature Algorithm

72
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FIPS 140-3

A

Federal Info Processing Standards 140-3

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SHA

A

Secure Hashing Algorithm

74
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SSO

A

Single Sign-On

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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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SAML

A

Security Assertion Markup Language

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DAC

A

Discretionary Access Control

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RBAC

A

Role-Based Access Control

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CVE list

A

Common Vulnerability and Exposures list

80
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CNA

A

CVE Numbering Authority

81
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CVSS

A

Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems

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OWASP

A

Open Worldwide Application Security Project

83
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SSRF

A

Service Side Request Forgery

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OSINT

A

Open Source Intelligence

85
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CISA

A

CyberSecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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APThreat

A

Advanced Persistent Threat

87
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PUA

A

Potentially Unwanted Application

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XSS

A

Cross-site Scripting

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URL

A

Uniform Resources Locator

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PASTA

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Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis

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STRIDE

A

Spoofing Tampering Repudiation Information Disclosure DoS Elevation of Privilege

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VAST

A

Visual Agile Simple Text

Coursera Cybersecurity (6 decks)

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