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AAAA

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Authentication, authorization, accounting, auditing

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ACL

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Access Control List

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AES

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Advanced Encryption Standard
-symmetric key encryption (not used for key exchanges)

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AH

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Authentication Header

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AP

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Access Point

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APC

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Angled Physical Contact

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APIPA

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Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing

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ARP

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Address Resolution Protocol
-creates binding between IP address and MAC address inside LAN
-arp table sets on routers and switches so data can be moved through routers with ip and then transferred to mac on the switch of right network and sent to client.

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AUP

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Acceptable Use Policy

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BGP

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Border Gateway Protocol

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BNC

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British Naval Connector/Bayonet Neill-Concelman

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BYOD

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Bring Your Own Device

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CAM

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Content Addressable Memory (table)

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CAN

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Campus Area Network

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CDMA

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Code Devision Media Access

Do not use SIM cards
Provider manage handset
Requires each subscriber device to use a code to key the modulation of their signal

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CIA

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Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

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CIDR

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing

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CLI

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Command Line Interface

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CNAME

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Canonical Name

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CPU

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Central Processing Unit

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CRC

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Cyclic Redundancy Check

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CSMA/CA

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Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

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CSU

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Channel Service Unit

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CVE

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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CWDM
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
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DaaS
Desktop as a Service
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dB
Decibel
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DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service -multiple attackers asking one victim for services
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DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DLP
Data Loss Prevention
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DNS
Domain Name System
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DoS
Denial of Service -1 machine floods a victim with requests for services -tcp syn flood (tcp handshakes that never completed by masking server send syn ack to a spoofed ips -Smurf attack (icmp flood): attacker sends ping to subnet broadcast with spoofed source ip set to be the ip of the victim server
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DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
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DSU
Data Service Unit
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DWDM
Dense Wavelength Devision Multiplexing
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EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol -uses different mechanisms of authentication
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EIA
Electronic Industries Association
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EIGRP
Enhance Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
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EIRP
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
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ESP
Encapsulating Security Protocol
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EUI
Extended Unique Identifier
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FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
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FHRP
First Hop Redundancy Protocol
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol
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GBIC
Gigabit Interface Converter
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GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation -tunneling protocol / does not provide encryption -think of ferry encapsulate car over water
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GSM
Global System for Mobile Communication -use TDMA (time division multiple access) -subscribers can use SIM card on an unlocked handset
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HA
High Availability
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HDMI
High Definition Multimedia Interface
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HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
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HVAC
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service Microsoft’s azure virtual machines Amazon’s elastic compute cloud
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ICS
Industrial Control System
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IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
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IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
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IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
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IoT
Internet of Things
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IP
Internet Protocol
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IPS
Intrusion Prevention System -uses bits of patterns called data signatures to identify common network attacks
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IPSec
Internet Protocol Security -used in securing key exchange during establishment of client to server vpn connection -uses ISAKMP
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IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
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IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
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iSCSI
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
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ISP
Internet Service Provider
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LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
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LAN
Local Area Network
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LC
Logic Connector
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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LDAPS
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (over SSL)
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LED
Light-Emitting Diode
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LTE
Long-Term Evolution -converged 4G standard supported by both GSM and CDMA network providers, but the network providers must install SIM card on the phone
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MAC
Media Access Control / Medium Access Control
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MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
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MDF
Main Distribution Frame
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MDIX
Medium Dependent Interface Crossover
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MIB
Management Information Base -collection of definitions which define the properties of the managed object within the device to be managed.
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MIMO
Multiple Input, Multiple Output
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MU-MIMO
Multiuser - Multiple Input, Multiple Output
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MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failure
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MT-RJ
Mechanical Transfer - Registered Jack
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MTTR
Mean Time To Repair
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MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
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MX
Mail Exchange
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NAC
Network Access Control -ensure device is scanned to determine state of security prior to being allowed network access
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NAS
Network Attached Storage
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NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement
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NFV
Network Function Virtualization -way to reduce cost and accelerate service deployment for network operators by decoupling functions like a firewall or encryption from dedicated hardware and moving them to virtual servers.
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NGFW
Next Generation Firewall
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NIC
Network Interface Card
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NS
Name Server
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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OID
Object Identifier
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OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
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OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
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OTDR
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
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PaaS
Platform as a Service SQL database is an example
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PAN
Personal Area Network
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PAT
Post Address Translation
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PDU
Power Distribution Unit
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PoE
Power over Ethernet
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POP3
Post Office Protocol version 3
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PSK
Pre-Shared Key
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PTR
Pointer Record
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QoS
Quality of Service
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QSFP
Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable
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RA
Router Advertisements
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service -802.1x standard uses RADIUS for authentication
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RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
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RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
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RF
Radio Frequency
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RFC
Request for Conner
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RG
Radio Guide
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RJ
Registered Jack
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RPO
Recovery Point Objective
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RTSP
Real Time Streaming Protocol
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SaaS
Software as a Service I.e 0365
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SAN
Storage Area Network
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SC
Standard Connector/ Subscriber Connector
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SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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SDN
Software-Defined Network
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SDWAN
Software-Defined WAN
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SFP
Small Form-factor Pluggable
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SFTP
Secure File Transfer Protocol
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SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
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SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
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SLA
Service Level Agreement
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SLAAC
Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
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SMB
Server Message Block
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SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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SOA
State of Authority
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SOHO
Small Office Home Office
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SQL
Structured Query Language
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SRV
Service Record
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SSD
Solid State Drive
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SSH
Secure Shell
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SSID
Service Set Identifier
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SSO
Single Sign-On
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ST
Straight Tip or Snap Twist
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STP
Spanning Tree Protocol
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Syslog
System Log
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TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus -uses 802.1x protocol
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TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
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TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TIA / EIA
Telecommunications Industry Association / Electronics Industries Alliance
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TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol -encryption protocol included in 802.11i standard for wireless LANs (WLANs)
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TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TTL
Time To Live
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TX/RX
Transmit and Receive
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UDP
User Datagram Protocol
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UPC
Ultra-Physical Contact
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UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
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URL
Uniform Resource Locator
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USB
Universal Serial Bus
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UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
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VIP
Virtual IP
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VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
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VM
Virtual Machine
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VNC
Virtual Network Computing
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vNIC
virtual Network Interface Card
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VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
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VPN
Virtual Private Network
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WAN
Wide Area Network
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WAP
Wireless Access Point
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WDM
Wavelength Devision Multiplexing
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WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
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WPA
WiFi Protected Access
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EAP-MD5
Variant of Extensible authentication protocol -uses passwords and the challenge handshake -one way authentication process so you must use long and strong passwords
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EAP-TLS
-variant of extensible authentication protocol -uses public key infrastructure -mutual authentication -use digital certificates instead of passwords
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EAP-TTLS
-variant of extensible authentication protocol -uses digital certificate on server and password on client -more secure than md5, but less than TLS variant
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EAP-FAST
EAP Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling -protected access credentials instead of a certificate to establish mutual connection
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PEAP
Protected EAP -uses server certificates and AD database to authenticate password from client
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MITM
Man in the Middle attack
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DNS poisoning
Attacker manipulates vulnerabilities in dns to reroute traffic to fake version of a site
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DNSSEC
Secure DNS Uses encrypted digital signatures when passing dns information between servers to protect from poisoning.
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ISAKMP
Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol -key protocol in IPsec architecture -common framework for agreeing to the format of security associations (SA) attributes and for negotiating, modifying, and deleting SAs. —there may be many key exchange protocols with different security properties, ISAKMP provides common framework
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VLSM
Variable-Length Subnet Masking -allows subnets of various sizes -would not be able to use /25, /27, etc

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