SYO-701 Acronyms Flashcards
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AAA
A
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
2
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ACL
A
Access Control List
3
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AES
A
Advanced Encryption Standard
4
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AES-256
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Advanced Encryption Standards 256-bit
5
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AH
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Authentication Header
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AI
A
Artificial Intelligence
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AIS
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Automated Indicator Sharing
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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
A
Application Programming Interface
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APT
A
Advanced Persistent Threat
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ARO
A
Annualized Rate of Occurrence
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
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ASLR
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Address Space Layout Randomization
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ATT&CK
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Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge
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AUP
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Acceptable Use Policy
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AV
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Antivirus
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BASH
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Bourne Again Shell
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BCP
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Business Continuity Planning
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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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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
Bring Your Own Device
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CA
Certificate Authority
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CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAR
Corrective Action Report
29
CASB
Cloud Access Security Broker
30
CBC
Cipher Block Chaining
31
CCMP
Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol
32
CCTV
Closed-circuit Television
33
CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
34
CFB
Cipher Feedback
35
CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
36
CIA
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
37
CIO
Chief Information Officer
38
CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
39
CMS
Content Management System
40
COOP
Continuity of Operation Planning
41
COPE
Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled
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CP
Contingency Planning
43
CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
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CRL
Certificate Revocation List
45
CSO
Chief Security Officer
46
CSP
Cloud Service Provider
47
CSR
Certificate Signing Request
48
CSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
49
CSU
Channel Service Unit
50
CTM
Counter Mode
51
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
52
CVE
Common Vulnerability Enumeration
53
CVSS
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
54
CYOD
Choose Your Own Device
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DAC
Discretionary Access Control
56
DBA
Database Administrator
57
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
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DEP
Data Execution Prevention
59
DES
Digital Encryption Standard
60
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
61
DHE
Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
62
DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail
63
DLL
Dynamic Link Library
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DLP
Data Loss Prevention
65
DMARC
Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
66
DNAT
Destination Network Address Translation
67
DNS
Domain Name System
68
DoS
Denial of Service
69
DPO
Data Privacy Officer
70
DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
71
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
72
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
73
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
74
ECB
Electronic Code Book
75
ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
76
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
77
EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response
78
EFS
Encrypted File System
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ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
80
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
81
ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
82
FACL
File System Access Control List
83
FDE
Full Disk Encryption
84
FIM
File Integrity Management
85
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
86
FRR
False Rejection Rate
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol
88
FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
89
GCM
Galois Counter Mode
90
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
91
GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
92
GPO
Group Policy Object
93
GPS
Global Positioning System
94
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
95
GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
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HA
High Availability
97
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
98
HIDS
Host-based Intrusion Detection System
99
HIPS
Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
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HMAC
Hashed Message Authentication Code
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HOTP
HMAC-based One-time Password
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HSM
Hardware Security Module
103
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
104
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
105
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
107
IaC
Infrastructure as Code
108
IAM
Identity and Access Management
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
110
ICS
Industrial Control Systems
111
IDEA
International Data Encryption Algorithm
112
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
113
IdP
Identity Provider
114
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
115
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
117
IM
Instant Messaging
118
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
119
IoC
Indicators of Compromise
120
IoT
Internet of Things
121
IP
Internet Protocol
122
IPS
Intrusion Prevent System
123
IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
124
IR
Incident Response
125
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
126
IRP
Incident Response Plan
127
ISO
International Standards Organization
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ISP
Internet Service Provider
129
ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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IV
Initialization Vector
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KDC
Key Distribution Center
132
KEK
Key Encryption Key
133
L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
134
LAN
Local Area Network
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
136
LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
137
MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
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MAC (3 potential acronyms)
1. Mandatory Access Control
2. Media Access Control
3. Message Authentication Code
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MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
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MBR
Master Boot Record
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MD5
Message Digest 5
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MDF
Main Distribution Frame
143
MDM
Mobile Device Management
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MFA
Multifactor Authentication
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MFD
Multifunction Device
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MFP
Multifunction Printer
147
ML
Machine Learning
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MMS
Multimedia Message Service
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MOA
Memorandum of Agreement
150
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPLS
Multi-protocol Label Switching
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MSA
Master Service Agreement
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MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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MSP
Managed Service Provider
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MSSP
Managed Security Service Provider
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
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MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
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MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
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MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
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NAC
Network Access Control
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NAT
Network Address Translation
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NDA
Non-disclosure Agreement
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NFC
Near Field Communication
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NGFW
Next-generation Firewall
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NIDS
Network-based Intrusion Detection System
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NIPS
Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
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NIST
National Institute of Standards & Technology
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NTFS
New Technology File System
169
NTLM
New Technology LAN Manager
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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OAUTH
Open Authorization
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OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
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OID
Object Identifier
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OS
Operating System
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OSINT
Open-source Intelligence
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OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
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OT
Operation Technology
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OTA
Over the Air
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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P12
PKCS #12
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P2P
Peer to Peer
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PaaS
Platform as a Service
183
PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
184
PAM (2 possible acronyms)
1. Privileged Access Management
2. Pluggable Authentication Protocol
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PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
186
PAT
Port Address Translation
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PBKDF2
Password-based Key Derivation Function 2
188
PBX
Private Branch Exchange
189
PCAP
Packet Capture
190
PCI DSS
Payment Card Industry Data Security
191
PDU
Power Distribution Unit
192
PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
193
PED
Personal Electronic Device
194
PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail
195
PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
196
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
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PHI
Personal Health Information
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PII
Personally Identifiable Information
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PIV
Personal Identity Verification
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PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
201
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
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POP
Post Office Protocol
203
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
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PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol
205
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
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PSK
Pre-shared Key
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PTZ
Pan-tilt-zoom
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PUP
Potentially Unwanted Program
209
RA (2 possible acronyms)
1. Recovery Agent
2. Registration Authority
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RACE
Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
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RAD
Rapid Application Development
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service
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RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
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RAS
Remote Access Server
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RAT
Remote Access Trojan
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RBAC
Rule/Role-based Access Control
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RC4
Rivest Cipher version 4
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RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
219
RFID
Radio Frequency Identifier
220
RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
221
ROI
Rate on Investment
222
RPO
Recovery Point Objective
223
RSA
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
224
RTBH
Remotely Triggered Black Hole
225
RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RTOS
Real-time Operating System
227
RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
228
S-MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
229
SaaS
Software as a Service
230
SAE
Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
231
SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
232
SAN (2 possible acronyms)
1. Storage Area Network
2. Subject Alternative Name
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SASE
Secure Access Service Edge
234
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
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SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
237
SD-WAN
Software-defined Wide Area Network
238
SDK
Software Development Kit
239
SDLC
Software Development Lifecycle
240
SDLM
Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
241
SDN
Software-defined Networking
242
SE Linux
Security-enhanced Linux
243
SED
Self-encrypting Drives
244
SEH
Structured Exception Handler
245
SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
246
SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
247
SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
248
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
249
SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
250
SLA
Service-level Agreement
251
SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
252
SMS
Short Message Service
253
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
254
SMTPS
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure
255
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
256
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
257
SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation, Response
258
SoC
System on Chip
259
SOC
Security Operations Center
260
SOW
Statement of Work
261
SPF
Sender Policy Framework
262
SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
263
SQL
Structured Query Language
264
SQLi
SQL Injection
265
SRTP
Secure Real-Time Protocol
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SSD
Solid State Drive
267
SSH
Secure Shell
268
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
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SSO
Single Sign-on
270
STIX
Structured Threat Information eXchange
271
SWG
Secure Web Gateway
272
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
273
TAXII
Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information
274
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
275
TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
276
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
277
TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TOC
Time-of-check
279
TOTP
Time-based One-time Password
280
TOU
Time-of-use
281
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
282
TTP
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
283
TSIG
Transaction Signature
284
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
285
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
286
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
287
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
288
UEM
Unified Endpoint Management
289
UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
290
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
291
URL
Universal Resource Locator
292
USB
Universal Serial Bus
293
USB OTG
USB On the Go
294
UTM
Unified Threat Management
295
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
296
VBA
Visual Basic
297
VDE
Virtual Desktop Environment
298
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
299
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
300
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
301
VM
Virtual Machine
302
VoIP
Voice over IP
303
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
304
VPN
Virtual Private Network
305
VTC
Video-Teleconferencing
306
WAF
Web Application Firewall
307
WAP
Wireless Access Point
308
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
309
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
310
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
311
WO
Work Order
312
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
313
WPS
Wi-Fi Protected Setup
314
WTLS
Wireless TLS
315
XDR
Extended Detection and Response
316
XML
Extensible Markup Language
317
XOR
Exclusive Or
318
XSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
319
XSS
Cross-site Scripting
