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BCP

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Business Continuity Plan

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CCTV

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Closed Circuit Television

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CBK

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Common Body of Knowledge

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CIA

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Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

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CIRT

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Computer Incident Response Team

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CSIRT

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Computer Security Incident Response Team

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DoS

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Denial of Service

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CISO

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Chief Information Security Officer

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CRO

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Chief Risk Officer

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DPD

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Data Protection Directive

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ISO

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International Standard Organization

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CISSP

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Certified Information System Security Professional

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EU

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European Union

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ICT

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Information and Communication Technology

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PIPEDA

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Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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DPD

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Data Protection Directive

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GLBA

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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

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PCI SSC

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Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council

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QSA

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Qualified Security Assessor

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GRC

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Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

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FISMA

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Federal Information Security Management Act

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WIPO

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World Intellectual Property Organization

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BSA

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Business Software Alliance

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IDC

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International Data Corporation

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EULA

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End User License Agreement

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ITAR

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International Traffic In Arms Regulations

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EAR

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Export Administration Regulations

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ECCN

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Export Control Classification Number

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RFID

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Radio Frequency Identification

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VOIP

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Voice Over Internet Protocol

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OECD

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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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VERIS

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Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing

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VCDB

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VERIS Community Database

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ECS

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Electronic Communication Service

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ENISA

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European Union Agency for Network and Information Security

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DPA

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Data Protection Agency

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ICO

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Information Commissioner’s Office

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ECS

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Electronic Communications Service

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PECR

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Privacy and electronic communications regulations

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FSGO

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Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations Outline.

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NYSE

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New York Stock Exchange

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FDA

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Food and Drug Administration

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FTC

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Federal Trade Commission

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ATF

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

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IRS

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Internal Revenue Service

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DoL

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Department of Labor

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SPA

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Software Publishers Association

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BSA

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Business Software Alliance

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IAB

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Internet Activities Board

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CEI

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Computer Ethics Institute

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NCCV

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National Conference on Computing and Values

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NCERC

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National Computer Ethics and Responsibilities Campaign

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NCSA

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National Computer Security Association

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BC

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Business Continuity

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DR

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Disaster Recovery

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SPOF

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Single Point of Failure

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BIA

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Business Impact Analysis

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NIST

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

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ISSO

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Information Systems Security Officer

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DRP

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Disaster Recovery Plan

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RoR

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Rate of Return

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ITGI

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IT Governance Institute

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SDLC

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Software Development Life Cycle

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MTD

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Maximum Tolerable Downtime

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RTO

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Recovery Time Objective

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TCP/IP

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Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

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ICMP

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Internet Control Message Protocol

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IGMP

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Internet Group Management Protocol

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FTP

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File Transfer Protocol

application layer protocol

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SNMP

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Simple Network Management Protocol (application layer protocol)

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SMTP

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

application layer protocol

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TFTP

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Trivial File Transfer Protocol

application layer protocol

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ASCII

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( presentation layer service)

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EBCDIC

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Extended Binary–Coded Decimal Interchange Mode (presentation layer service)

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TIFF

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Tagged image file format

presentation layer service

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JPEG

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(Presentation layer service)

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MPEG

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Motion pictures experts group

Presentation layer service

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MIDI

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Musical instrument digital interface

presentation layer service

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NFS

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Network file system

Session layer protocol

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NetBIOS

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(Session layer protocol)

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SQL

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(Session Layer Protocol)

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RPC

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Remote Procedure Call

session layer protocol

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TCP

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(Transport layer protocol )

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UDP

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User Datagram Protocol

Transport layer protocol

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SSL

A

Secure Sockets Layer

transport layer protocol

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SPX

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Sequenced package exchange

transport layer protocol

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MTU

A

Maximum Transmission Unit

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IP

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Internet Protocol

Network layer protocol

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ICMP

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(Network layer protocol)

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IGMP

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(network layer protocol)

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RIP v1 and v2

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(Network layer protocol)

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OSPF v1 and v2

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Open shortest path first

Network layer protocol

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MTBF

A

Mean time between failures

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RPO

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Recovery point objective

The point in time that the disaster recovery planner will attempt to recover to.

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FCRA

A

Fair credit reporting act

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EEOC

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Equal employment opportunity commission

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NIST

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National Institute of standards and technology

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COSO

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Committee of sponsoring organizations of the Treadway commission

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COBIT

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Control objectives for information and related technology

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ITAF

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IT assurance framework

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BMIS

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Business model for information security

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ISACA

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Information systems audit and control association

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CRAMM

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CCTA risk analysis and management method

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FRAP

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Facilitated risk analysis process

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SOMAP

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Security officers management and analysis project

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VAR

A

Value at Risk

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SLE

A

Single loss expectancy
Defined as the difference between the original value and the remaining value of an asset after a single exploit.

SLE = Asset value (in $) x Exposure Factor
(Loss due to successful threat exploit, as a percentage)

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ARO

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Annualized rate of occurrence.

An estimate of how often a threat will be successful and exploiting a vulnerability over the period of a year.

128
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ALE

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Annualized loss expectancy

Is a product of the yearly estimate for the exploit and the loss in value of an asset after a single occurrence

ALE = SLE x ARO

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LAFE

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Local annual frequency estimate

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SAFE

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Standard annual frequency estimate

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NOS

A

Network Operating System

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DNS

A

Domain Name System

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NAT

A

network address translation

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PAT

A

Port address translation

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NAPT

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Network address port translation

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MTU

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Maximum Transmission Unit

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BGP

A

Border Gateway Protocol

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OSPF

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Open Shortest Path First

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IPX

A

Internetwork Packet Exchange

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RIP

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Routing Information Protocol

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LLC

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Logical Link Control

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ARP

A

Address Resolution Protocol

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RARP

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Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

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PPP

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Point to point protocol

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SLIP

A

Serial Line Internet Protocol

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FECN

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Forward explicit congestion notification

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BECN

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Backward explicit congestion Notification

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LMI

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Local management interface

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SDLC

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Synchronous data link control

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SNA

A

System network architecture

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HDLC

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High-level datalink control

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NRM

A

Normal response mode

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ARM

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Asynchronous response mode

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ABM

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Asynchronous balanced mode

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LAPB

A

Link access procedure, balanced

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ISDN

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Integrated services digital network

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BRI

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Basic rate interface

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PRI

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Primary rate interface

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DSL

A

Digital subscriber line

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ADSL

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Asymmetric DSL

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RDSL

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Rate adaptive DSL

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HDSL

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Hi rate DSL

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IDSL

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ISDN DSL

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VDSL

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Very high data rate DSL

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SDSL

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Symmetric DSL

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CMTS

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Cable modem transmission system

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AH

A

Authentication Header

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ESP

A

Encapsulating security payload

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IKE

A

Internet key exchange

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3DES

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Triple data encryption standard

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SA

A

Security association

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MS-CHAP

A

Microsoft challenge authentication protocol

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GRE

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Generic routing encapsulation

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PPTP

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Point-to-point tunneling protocol

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PAC

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Point to point tunneling protocol access concentrator

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SKIP

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Simple key management protocol for IP

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DES

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Data encryption standard

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SSL

A

Secure sockets layer

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IETF

A

Internet engineering task force

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TLS

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Transport layer security

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SET

A

Secure electronic transaction

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MIME

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Multipurpose Internet mail extension

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PGP

A

Pretty good privacy

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