Security Plus Acronyms Flashcards

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3DES

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Triple Data Encryption Standard

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AAA

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Authentication Authorization and Accounting

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ACE

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Access Control Entry

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ACK

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Acknowledge

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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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AES-256

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Advanced Encryption Standard-256

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AH

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Authentication Header

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ALE

A

Annual Lost Expectancy

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AP

A

Access Point

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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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ARO

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Annual Rate of Occurrence

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ARP

A

Address Resolution Protocol

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ASCII

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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ASP

A

Application Service Provider

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AUP

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Acceptable 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 Plan

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BIA

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Business Impact Analysis

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BIND

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Berkley Internet Name Domain

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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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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

A

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

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CAR

A

Corrective Action Report

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CCMP

A

Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol

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CCTV

A

Closed Circuit Television

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CERT

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Computer Emergency Response Team

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CHAP

A

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

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CIA

A

Confidentiality, integrity, availability

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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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COOP

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Continuity of Operations Planning

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CP

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Contingency Planning

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CRC

A

Cyclical Redundancy Check

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CSR

A

Certificate Signing Request

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CRL

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Certification Revocation List

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CSR

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Control Status Register

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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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CVE

A

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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46
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DAC

A

Discretionary Access Control

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47
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DACL

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Discretionary Access Control List

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48
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DBA

A

Database Administrator

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49
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dBd

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Decibels-dipole

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50
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dBi

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Decibels-isotropic

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51
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dBm

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Decibels-milliwatt

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52
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DDoS

A

Distributed denial of service

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53
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DEP

A

Data Execution Prevention

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54
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DES

A

Data Encryption Standard

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DHCP

A

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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56
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DHE

A

Data-Handling Electronics

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57
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DHE

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Diffie-Hellmann Ephemeral

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DLL

A

Dynamic Link Library

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DLP

A

Data Loss Prevention

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DMZ

A

Demilitarize Zone

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DNAT

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Destination Network Access Translation

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DNAT

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Dynamic Network Address Translation

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63
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DNS

A

Domain Name System

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64
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DNSSEC

A

Domain Name System Security Extensions

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65
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DoS

A

Denial of Service

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66
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DRP

A

Disaster Recovery Plan

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67
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DSA

A

Digital Signature Algorithm

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DSL

A

Digital Subscriber Line

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DSU

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Data Service Unit

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EAP

A

Extensible Authentication Protocols

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71
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EAP-TLS

A

Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security

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EAP-TTLS

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Extensible Authentication Protocol-Tunneled Transport Layer Security

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73
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ECC

A

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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ECDHE

A

Elliptic Curve Diffe-Hellman Ephemeral

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EFS

A

Encrypting File System

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EMI

A

Electromagnetic Interference

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ESD

A

Electrostatic discharge

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ESN

A

Electronic Serial Number

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ESP

A

Encapsulating Security Protocol

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FACL

A

File Access System Control List

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FCoE

A

Fiber Channel over Ethernet

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FDE

A

Full Disk Encryption

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FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

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84
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FTPS

A

File Transfer Protocol Secure

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85
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GPG

A

GNU Privacy Guard

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GPO

A

Group Policy Object

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GPS

A

Global Positioning System

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GRE

A

Generic Routing Encapsulation

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GUI

A

Graphical user interface

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HDD

A

Hard disk drive

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HIDS

A

Host based intrusion detection system

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HIPS

A

Host based intrusion prevention system

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HMAC

A

Hash based Message Authentication Code

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HOTP

A

HMAC-based One Time Password

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HSM

A

Hardware Security Module

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HTML

A

Hypertext Markup Language

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HTTP

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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HTTPS

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

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HVAC

A

Heating, ventilation , and air conditioning

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IaaS

A

Infrastructure of a service

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ICMP

A

Internet Control Message Protocol

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ID

A

Identification

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103
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IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

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IEEE

A

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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IGMP

A

Internet Group Management Protocol

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IIS

A

Internet Information Services

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IKE

A

Internet Key Exchange

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IM

A

Instant Messaging

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IMAP4

A

Internet Message Access Protocol version 4

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IP

A

Internet Protocol

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IPS

A

Intrusion Prevention System

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IPsec

A

Internet Protocol Security

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113
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IPv4

A

Internet Protocol version 4

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IPv6

A

Internet Protocol version 6

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IR

A

Incident Response

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IRC

A

Internet Relay Chat

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IRP

A

Incident Response Procedure

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IRT

A

Incident Response Team

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ISA

A

Interconnection Security Agreement

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iSCSI

A

Internet Small Computer System Interface

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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

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ISSO

A

Information Systems Security Officer

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IT

A

Information Technology

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ITCP

A

IT Contingency Plan

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IV

A

Initialization Vector

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JBOD

A

Just a Bunch of Disks

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KDC

A

Key Distribution Center

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L2TP

A

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

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LAN

A

Local Area Network

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LANMAN

A

Local area network Manager

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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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LEAP

A

Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

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LSO

A

Local Shared Object

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MaaS

A

Monitoring as a Service or Management

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MAC

A

Mandatory Access Control

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MAC

A

Media Access Control

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MAC

A

Message Authentication Code

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Malware

A

Malicious Software

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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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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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MS-CHAP

A

Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

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MTBF

A

Mean Time Between Failures

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MTTF

A

Meant Time to Failure

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MTTR

A

Mean Time To Recover

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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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NDP

A

Neighborhood Discovery Protocol

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NetBIOS

A

Network Basic Input/Output System

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NFC

A

Near Field Communication

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NIDS

A

Network-based intrusion detection system

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NIC

A

Network interface Card

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NIPS

A

Network-based intrusions prevention system

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NIST

A

National Institute of Standards of Technology

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NOP

A

No Operation

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NOS

A

Network Operating System

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NoSQL

A

Not Only Structured Query Language

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NTFS

A

NT File System

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NTLM

A

Net Technology LANMAN

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NTP

A

Network Time Protocol

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OCSP

A

Online Certificate Status Protocol

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OLA

A

Open License Agreement

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OS

A

Operating System

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OSI

A

Open Systems Interconnection

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OVAL

A

Open Vulnerability Assessment Language

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P2P

A

Peer-2-Peer

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PaaS

A

Platform as a Service

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PAC

A

Proxy Auto Configuration

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PAM

A

Pluggable Authentication Modules

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PAN

A

Personal Area Network

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PAP

A

Password Authentication Protocol

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PAT

A

Port Address Translation

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PBKDF2

A

Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2

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PBX

A

Private Branch Exchange

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PCAP

A

Packet Capture

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PDF

A

Portable Document Format

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PEAP

A

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

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PED

A

Personal Electronic Device

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PGP

A

Pretty Good Privacy

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PII

A

Personal Identifiable Information

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PIN

A

Personal Identification Number

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PIV

A

Personal Identity Verification Card

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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

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POP3

A

Post Office Protocol Version 3

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POTS

A

Plain Old Telephone Service

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PPP

A

Point to Point Protocol

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PPTP

A

Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

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PSK

A

Preshared Key

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PTZ

A

Pan Tilt Zoom

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RA

A

Recovery Agent

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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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RAID 0

A

Disk striping, no fault tolerance

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RAID 1

A

Disk mirroring, two disks provides fault tolerance

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RAID 5

A

Disk striping with parity, 3 or more disks and fault tolerance

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RAID 6

A

Disk striping with parity. RAID-6 uses four or more disks and provides fault tolerance

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RAM

A

Random Access Memory

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RAS

A

Remote Access Service

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RAT

A

Remote access tool

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RC

A

Ron’s Code

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RC4

A

Rivest Cipher

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RDP

A

Remote Desktop Protocol

208
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RFI

A

Radio Frequency Interference

209
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RFID

A

Radio frequency identification

210
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RIPEMD

A

RACE integrity Primitive Evaluation Message Digest

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ROI

A

Return On Investment

212
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Role-BAC

A

Role-based Access Control

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RPO

A

Recovery Point Objective

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RSA

A

Rivest, Shamir, Adelman

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RSTP

A

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

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RTO

A

Recovery Time Objective

217
Q

RTP

A

Real Time Transport Protocol

218
Q

Rule-BAC

A

Rule based Access Control

219
Q

S/MIME

A

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

220
Q

SaaS

A

Software as a Service

221
Q

SAML

A

Security Assertions Markup Language

222
Q

SAN

A

Storage Area Network

223
Q

SCADA

A

Supervisory control and data acquisition

224
Q

SCAP

A

Security Content Automation Protocol

225
Q

SCEP

A

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

226
Q

SCP

A

Secure Copy

227
Q

SCSI

A

Small Computer System Interface

228
Q

SDLM

A

Software Development Life Cycle Methodology

229
Q

SEH

A

Structured Exception Handler

230
Q

SELinux

A

Security Enhanced Linux

231
Q

SFTP

A

Secure File Transfer Protocol

232
Q

SHA

A

Secure Hash Algorithm

233
Q

SHTTP

A

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

234
Q

SID

A

Security Identifier

235
Q

SIEM

A

Security Information and Event Management

236
Q

SIM

A

Subscriber Identity Module

237
Q

SIRT

A

Security Incident Response Team

238
Q

SLA

A

Service Level Agreement

239
Q

SLE

A

Single Loss Expectancy

240
Q

SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

241
Q

SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

242
Q

SONET

A

Synchronous Optical Network Technologies

243
Q

SPIM

A

Spam over Internet Messaging

244
Q

SPOF

A

Single Point of Failure

245
Q

SQL

A

Structured Query Language

246
Q

SSD

A

Solid State Drive

247
Q

SSH

A

Secure Shell

248
Q

SSID

A

Service Set Identifier

249
Q

SSL

A

Secure Sockets Layer

250
Q

SSO

A

Single Sign On

251
Q

SSTP

A

Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol

252
Q

STP

A

Shielded twisted-pair

253
Q

STP

A

Spanning Tree Protocol

254
Q

SYN

A

Synchronize

255
Q

TACACS+

A

Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System +

256
Q

TCO

A

Total Cost of Ownership

257
Q

TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

258
Q

TCP/IP

A

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

259
Q

TFTP

A

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

260
Q

TGT

A

Ticket Granting Ticket

261
Q

TKIP

A

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

262
Q

TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

263
Q

TOTP

A

Time Based One Time Password

264
Q

TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

265
Q

TSIG

A

Transaction Signature

266
Q

UAT

A

User Acceptance Testing

267
Q

UDP

A

User Datagram Protocol

268
Q

UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

269
Q

UPS

A

Uninterruptible Power Supply

270
Q

URI

A

Uniform Resource Identifier

271
Q

URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

272
Q

USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

273
Q

UTM

A

Unified Threat Management

274
Q

UTP

A

Unshielded Twisted Pair

275
Q

VDI

A

Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure

276
Q

VLAN

A

Virtual local area network

277
Q

VM

A

Virtual Machine

278
Q

VoIP

A

Voice Over IP

279
Q

VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

280
Q

VSAN

A

Virtual Storage Area Network

281
Q

VTC

A

Video Teleconferencing

282
Q

WAF

A

Web Application Firewall

283
Q

WAP

A

Wireless Access Point

284
Q

WEP

A

Wired Equivalent Privacy

285
Q

WIDS

A

Wireless Intrusion Detection System

286
Q

WIPS

A

Wireless Intrusion Prevention System

287
Q

WLAN

A

Wireless Local Area Network

288
Q

WPA

A

Wi-Fi Protected Access

289
Q

WPA2

A

Wi-Fi Protected Access II

290
Q

WPS

A

Wi-Fi Protected Setup

291
Q

WTLS

A

Wireless Transport Layer Security

292
Q

XML

A

Extensible Markup Language

293
Q

XSRF

A

Cross-site request forgery

294
Q

XSS

A

Cross Site Scripting Attack

295
Q

XTACACS

A

Extended Terminal Access Controller

296
Q

VMI

A

Virtual Mobile Information

297
Q

COPE

A

Corporate Owned and Personally Enabled

298
Q

TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module