CompTIA Security+ (SYO-701) Acronym List Flashcards
(327 cards)
1
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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
A
Advanced Encryption Standard 256-bit
5
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AH
A
Authentication Header
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AI
A
Artificial Intelligence
7
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AIS
A
Automated Indicator Sharing
8
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ALE
A
Annualized Loss Expectancy
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AP
A
Access Point
10
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API
A
Application Programming Interface
11
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APT
A
Advanced Persistent Threat
12
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ARO
A
Annualized Rate of Occurrence
13
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
14
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ASLR
A
Address Space Layout Randomization
15
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ATT&CK
A
Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge
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AUP
A
Acceptable Use Policy
17
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AV
A
Antivirus
18
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BASH
A
Bourne Again Shell
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BCP
A
Business Continuity Planning
20
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BGP
A
Border Gateway Protocol
21
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BIA
A
Business Impact Analysis
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BIOS
A
Basic Input/Output System
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BPA
A
Business Partners Agreement
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BPDU
A
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
25
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
26
CA
Certificate Authority
27
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
28
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
42
CP
Contingency Planning
43
CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
44
CRL
Certification 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
55
DAC
Discretionary Access Control
56
DBA
Database Administrator
57
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
58
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
64
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
ECC
Elliptic Code Cryptography
76
ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
77
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
78
EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response
79
EFS
Encrypted File System
80
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
81
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
82
ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
83
FACL
File System Access Control List
84
FDE
Full Disk Encryption
85
FIM
File Integrity Management
86
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
87
FRR
False Rejection Rate
88
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
89
FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
90
GCM
Galois Counter Mode
91
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
92
GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
93
GPO
Group Policy Object
94
GPS
Global Positioning System
95
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
96
GRE
Generic Ruling Encapsulation
97
HA
High Availability
98
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
99
HIDS
Host-based Intrusion Detection System
100
HIPS
Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
101
HMAC
Hashed Message Authentication Code
102
HOTP
HMAC-based One-time Password
103
HSM
Hardware Security Mode
104
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
105
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
106
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
107
HVAC
Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning
108
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
109
IaC
Infrastructure as Code
110
IAM
Identify and Access Management
111
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
112
ICS
Industrial Control Systems
113
IDEA
International Data Encryption Algorithm
114
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
115
IdP
Identity Provider
116
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
117
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
118
IKE
Internet Key Exchange
119
IM
Instant Messaging
120
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
121
IoC
Indicators of Compromise
122
IoT
Internet of Things
123
IP
Internet Protocol
124
IPS
Intrusion Prevention System
125
IPSec
Internet Protocol Security
126
IR
Incident Response
127
IRC
Internet Relay Chat
128
IRP
Incident Response Plan
129
ISO
International Standards Organization
130
ISP
Internet Service Provider
131
ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
132
IV
Initialization Vector
133
KDC
Key Distribution Center
134
KEK
Key Encryption Key
135
L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
136
LAN
Local Area Network
137
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
138
LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
139
MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
140
MAC
Mandatory Access Control
141
MAC
Media Access Control
142
MAC
Message Authentication Code
143
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
144
MBR
Master Boot Record
145
MD5
Message Digest 5
146
MDF
Main Distribution Frame
147
MDM
Mobile Device Management
148
MFA
Multifactor Authentication
149
MFD
Multifunction Device
150
MFP
Multifunction Printer
151
ML
Machine Learning
152
MMS
Multimedia Message Service
153
MOA
Memorandum of Agreement
154
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
155
MPLS
Multi-protocol Label Switching
156
MSA
Master Service Agreement
157
MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
158
MSP
Managed Service Provider
159
MSSP
Managed Security Service Provider
160
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
161
MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
162
MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
163
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
164
NAC
Network Access Control
165
NAT
Network Address Translation
166
NDA
Non-disclosure Agreement
167
NFC
Near Field Communication
168
NGFW
Next-generation Firewall
169
NIDS
Network-based Intrusion Detection System
170
NIPS
Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
171
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
172
NTFS
New Technology File System
173
NTLM
New Technology LAN Manager
174
NTP
Network Time Protocol
175
OAUTH
Open Authorization
176
OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
177
OID
Object Identifier
178
OS
Operating System
179
OSINT
Open-source Intelligence
180
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
181
OT
Operational Technology
182
OTA
Over the air
183
OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
184
P12
PKCS #12
185
P2P
Peer to peer
186
PaaS
Platform as a Service
187
PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
188
PAM
Privileged Access Management
189
PAM
Pluggable Authentication Modules
190
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
191
PAT
Port Address Translation
192
PBKDF2
Password-based Key Derivation Function 2
193
PBX
Private Branch Exchange
194
PCAP
Pocket Capture
195
PCI DSS
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
196
PDU
Power Distribution Unit
197
PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
198
PED
Personal Electronic Device
199
PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail
200
PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
201
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
202
PHI
Personal Health Information
203
PII
Personally Identifiable Information
204
PIV
Personal Identity Verification
205
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
206
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
207
POP
Post Office Protocol
208
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
209
PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol
210
PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
211
PSK
Pre-shared Key
212
PTZ
Pan-tilt-Zoom
213
PUP
Potentially Unwanted Program
214
RA
Recovery Agent
215
RA
Registration Authority
216
RACE
Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
217
RAD
Rapid Application Development
218
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in-User Service
219
RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk
220
RAS
Remote Access Server
221
RAT
Remote Access Trojan
222
RBAC
Role-based Access Control
223
RBAC
Rule-based Access Control
224
RC4
Rivets Cipher version 4
225
RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
226
RFID
Radio Frequency Identifier
227
RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
228
ROI
Return on Investment
229
RPO
Recovery Point Objective
230
RSA
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
231
RTBH
Remotely Triggered Black Hole
232
RTO
Recovery Time Objective
233
RTOS
Real-time Operating System
234
RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
235
S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Male Extensions
236
SaaS
Software as a Service
237
SAE
Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
238
SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
239
SAN
Storage Area Network
240
SAN
Subject Alternative Name
241
SASE
Secure Access Service Edge
242
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
243
SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
244
SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
245
SD-WAN
Software-defined Wide Area Network
246
SDK
Software Development Kit
247
SDLC
Software Development Lifecycle
248
SDLM
Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
249
SDN
Software-defined Networking
250
SE Linux
Security-enhanced Linux
251
SED
Self-encrypting Drives
252
SEH
Structure Exception Handler
253
SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
254
SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
255
SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
256
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
257
SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
258
SLA
Service-level Agreement
259
SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
260
SMS
Short Message Service
261
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
262
SMTPS
Simple Mai Transfer Protocol Secure
263
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
264
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
265
SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation, Response
266
SoC
System on Chip
267
SOC
Security Operations Center
268
SOW
Statement of Work
269
SPF
Sender Policy Framework
270
SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
271
SQL
Structured Query Language
272
SQLi
SQL Injection
273
SRTP
Secure Real-Time Protocol
274
SSD
Solid State Drive
275
SSH
Secure Shell
276
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
277
SSO
Single Sign-on
278
STIX
Structured Threat Information Exchange
279
SWG
Secure Web Gateway
280
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
281
TAXII
Trusted Automated Exchange of Indicator Information
282
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
283
TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
284
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
285
TLS
Transport Layer Security
286
TOC
Time-of-check
287
TOTP
Time-based One-time Password
288
TOU
Time-of-use
289
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
290
TTP
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
291
TSIG
Transaction Signature
292
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
293
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
294
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
295
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
296
UEM
Unified Endpoint Management
297
UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
298
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
299
URL
Universal Resource Locator
300
USB
Universal Serial Bus
301
USB OTG
USB On the Go
302
UTM
Unified Threat Management
303
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
304
VBA
Visual Basic
305
VDE
Virtual Desktop Environment
306
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
307
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
308
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
309
VM
Virtual Machine
310
VoIP
Voice over IP
311
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
312
VPN
Virtual Private Network
313
VTC
Video Teleconferencing
314
WAF
Web Application Firewall
315
WAP
Wireless Access Point
316
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
317
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
318
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
319
WO
Work Order
320
WPA
Wi-fi Protected Access
321
WPS
Wi-fi Protected Setup
322
WTLS
Wireless TLS
323
XDR
Extended Detection and Response
324
XML
Extensible Markup Language
325
XOR
Exclusive Or
326
XSRF
Cross-site Request Forgery
327
XSS
Cross-site Scripting
