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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
International Data Corporation
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EULA
End User License Agreement
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ITAR
International Traffic In Arms Regulations
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EAR
Export Administration Regulations
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ECCN
Export Control Classification Number
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RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
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VOIP
Voice Over Internet Protocol
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OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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VERIS
Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing
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VCDB
VERIS Community Database
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ECS
Electronic Communication Service
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ENISA
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security
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DPA
Data Protection Agency
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ICO
Information Commissioner's Office
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ECS
Electronic Communications Service
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PECR
Privacy and electronic communications regulations
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FSGO
Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations Outline.
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NYSE
New York Stock Exchange
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FDA
Food and Drug Administration
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FTC
Federal Trade Commission
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ATF
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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IRS
Internal Revenue Service
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DoL
Department of Labor
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SPA
Software Publishers Association
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BSA
Business Software Alliance
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IAB
Internet Activities Board
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CEI
Computer Ethics Institute
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NCCV
National Conference on Computing and Values
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NCERC
National Computer Ethics and Responsibilities Campaign
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NCSA
National Computer Security Association
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BC
Business Continuity
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DR
Disaster Recovery
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SPOF
Single Point of Failure
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BIA
Business Impact Analysis
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NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
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RoR
Rate of Return
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ITGI
IT Governance Institute
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SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
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MTD
Maximum Tolerable Downtime
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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol | application layer protocol
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SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol (application layer protocol)
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SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | application layer protocol
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TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol | application layer protocol
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ASCII
( presentation layer service)
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EBCDIC
Extended Binary–Coded Decimal Interchange Mode (presentation layer service)
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TIFF
Tagged image file format | presentation layer service
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JPEG
(Presentation layer service)
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MPEG
Motion pictures experts group | Presentation layer service
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MIDI
Musical instrument digital interface | presentation layer service
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NFS
Network file system | Session layer protocol
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NetBIOS
(Session layer protocol)
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SQL
(Session Layer Protocol)
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RPC
Remote Procedure Call | session layer protocol
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TCP
(Transport layer protocol )
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UDP
User Datagram Protocol | Transport layer protocol
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SSL
Secure Sockets Layer | transport layer protocol
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SPX
Sequenced package exchange | transport layer protocol
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MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
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IP
Internet Protocol | Network layer protocol
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ICMP
(Network layer protocol)
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IGMP
(network layer protocol)
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RIP v1 and v2
(Network layer protocol)
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OSPF v1 and v2
Open shortest path first | Network layer protocol
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MTBF
Mean time between failures
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RPO
Recovery point objective | The point in time that the disaster recovery planner will attempt to recover to.
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FCRA
Fair credit reporting act
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EEOC
Equal employment opportunity commission
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NIST
National Institute of standards and technology
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COSO
Committee of sponsoring organizations of the Treadway commission
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COBIT
Control objectives for information and related technology
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ITAF
IT assurance framework
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BMIS
Business model for information security
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ISACA
Information systems audit and control association
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CRAMM
CCTA risk analysis and management method
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FRAP
Facilitated risk analysis process
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SOMAP
Security officers management and analysis project
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VAR
Value at Risk
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SLE
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
Annualized rate of occurrence. | An estimate of how often a threat will be successful and exploiting a vulnerability over the period of a year.
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ALE
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
Local annual frequency estimate
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SAFE
Standard annual frequency estimate
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NOS
Network Operating System
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DNS
Domain Name System
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NAT
network address translation
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PAT
Port address translation
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NAPT
Network address port translation
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MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
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BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
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OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
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IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange
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RIP
Routing Information Protocol
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LLC
Logical Link Control
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ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
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RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
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PPP
Point to point protocol
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SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol
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FECN
Forward explicit congestion notification
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BECN
Backward explicit congestion Notification
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LMI
Local management interface
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SDLC
Synchronous data link control
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SNA
System network architecture
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HDLC
High-level datalink control
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NRM
Normal response mode
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ARM
Asynchronous response mode
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ABM
Asynchronous balanced mode
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LAPB
Link access procedure, balanced
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ISDN
Integrated services digital network
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BRI
Basic rate interface
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PRI
Primary rate interface
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DSL
Digital subscriber line
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ADSL
Asymmetric DSL
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RDSL
Rate adaptive DSL
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HDSL
Hi rate DSL
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IDSL
ISDN DSL
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VDSL
Very high data rate DSL
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SDSL
Symmetric DSL
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CMTS
Cable modem transmission system
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AH
Authentication Header
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ESP
Encapsulating security payload
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IKE
Internet key exchange
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3DES
Triple data encryption standard
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SA
Security association
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MS-CHAP
Microsoft challenge authentication protocol
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GRE
Generic routing encapsulation
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PPTP
Point-to-point tunneling protocol
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PAC
Point to point tunneling protocol access concentrator
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SKIP
Simple key management protocol for IP
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DES
Data encryption standard
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SSL
Secure sockets layer
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IETF
Internet engineering task force
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TLS
Transport layer security
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SET
Secure electronic transaction
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MIME
Multipurpose Internet mail extension
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PGP
Pretty good privacy

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