Security+ Acronym Flashcards
(244 cards)
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3DES
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Triple Digital Encryption Standard
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AAA
A
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
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ACL
A
Access Control List
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AES
A
Advanced Encryption Standard
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AES256
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Advanced Encryption Standards 256bit
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AH
A
Authentication Header
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ALE
A
Annualized Loss Expectancy
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AP
A
Access Point
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API
A
Application Programming Interface
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ASP
A
Application Service Provider
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ARO
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Annualized Rate of Occurrence
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
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AUP
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Acceptable Use Policy
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BAC
A
Business Availability Center
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BCP
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Business Continuity Planning
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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
A
Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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BYOD
A
Bring Your Own Device
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CA
A
Certificate Authority
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CAC
A
Common Access Card
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CAN
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Controller Area Network
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CAPTCHA
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Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAR
Corrective Action Report
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CCMP
Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol
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CCTV
Closed-circuit television
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CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
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CFB
Cipher Feedback
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CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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CIO
Chief Information Officer
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CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
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CMS
Content Management System
34
COOP
Continuity of Operation Planning
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CP
Contingency Planning
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CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
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CRL
Certificate Revocation List
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CSP
Cloud Service Provider
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CSR
Control Status Register
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CSRF
Cross-Site Request Forgery
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CSU
Channel Service Unit
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CTO
Chief Technology Officer
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DAC
Discretionary Access Control
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DBA
Database Administrator
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DDOS
Distributed Denial of Service
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DEP
Data Execution Prevention
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DES
Digital Encryption Standard
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DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
49
DHE
Data-Handling Electronics
| Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
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DLL
Dynamic Link Library
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DLP
Data Loss Prevention
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DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
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DNAT
Destination Network Address Transaction
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DNS
Domain Name Service (Server)
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DOS
Denial of Service
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DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
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DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
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DSL
Digital Subscriber line
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DSU
Data Service Unit
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EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
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ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Exchange
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ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
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EFS
Encrypted File System
65
EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
66
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
67
ESP
Encapsulated Security Payload
68
FACL
File System Access Control List
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FDE
Full Disk Encryption
70
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
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FTPS
Secured File Transfer Protocol
72
GCM
Galois Counter Mode
73
GPG
Gnu Privacy Guard
74
GPO
Group Policy Object
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GPS
Global Positioning System
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GPU
Graphic Processing Unit
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GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
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HDD
Hard Disk Drive
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HIDS
Host Based Intrusion Detection System
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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
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HTML
HyperText Markup Language
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HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL
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HVAC
Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ICS
Industrial Control Systems
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ID
Identification
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IDF
Intermeidate Distribution Frame
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IdP
Identity Provider
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IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
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IM
Instant messaging
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IMAP4
Internet Message Access Protocol v4
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IP
Internet Protocol
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IPSEC
Internet Protocol Security
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IR
Incident Response
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IRC
Internet Relay Chat
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IRP
Incident Response Procedure
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ISA
Interconnection Security Agreement
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ISP
Internet Service Provider
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ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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ITCP
IT Contingency Plan
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IV
Initialization Vector
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JBOD
Just a Bunch of Disks
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KDC
Key Distribution Center
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KEK
Key Encryption Key
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L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
112
LAN
Local Area Network
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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MaaS
Monitoring as a Service
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MAC
Mandatory Access Control / Media Access Control
| 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
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MITM
Man-in-the-Middle
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MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPLS
Multi-Protocol Layer Switch
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MSCHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
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MTTR
Mean Time to Recover
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MTTF
Mean Time to Failure
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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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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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NOS
Network Operating System
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NTFS
New Technology File System
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NTLM
New Technology LANMAN
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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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OLA
Open License Agreement
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OS
Operating System
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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P2P
Peer to Peer
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PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
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PAM
Pluggable Authentication Modules
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PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
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PAT
Port Address Translation
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PBKDF2
Password Based Key Derivation Function 2
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PBX
Private Branch Exchange
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PCAP
Packet Capture
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PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
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PED
Personal Electronic Device
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PFS
Perfect Forward Secrecy
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PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
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PII
Personally Identifiable Information
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PIV
Personal Identity Verification
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PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
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POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
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PPP
Point-to-point Protocol
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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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RA
Recovery Agent
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RA
Registration Authority
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RAD
Rapid application development
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server
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RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
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RAS
Remote Access Server
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RBAC
Role Based Access Control
| Rule Based Access Control
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RC4
RSA Variable Key Size Encryption Algorithm
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RIPEMD
RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
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ROI
Return of Investment
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RPO
Recovery Point Objective
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RSA
Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RTP
Real-Time Transport Protocol
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S/MIME
Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
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SaaS
Software as a Service
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SAN
Storage Area Network
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SCADA
System Control and Data Acquisition
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SCAP
Security Content Automation Protocol
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SCEP
Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
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SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
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SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle
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SDLM
Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
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SEH
Structured Exception Handler
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SHA
Secure Hashing Algorithm
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SFTP
Secured File Transfer Protocol
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SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
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SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
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SLA
Service Level Agreement
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SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
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SMS
Short Message Service
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SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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SMTPS
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure
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SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
201
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
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SONET
Synchronous Optical Network Technologies
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SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
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SQL
Structured Query Language
205
SSD
Solid State Drive
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SSH
Secure Shell
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SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
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SSO
Single Sign On
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STP
Shielded Twisted Pair
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TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
211
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
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TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
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TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
214
TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TOTP
Time-Based One-Time Password
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TPM
Trusted Platform Module
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TSIG
Transaction Signature
218
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
219
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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UDP
User Datagram Protocol
221
UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply
222
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
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URL
Universal Resource Locator
224
USB
Universal Serial Bus
225
UTM
Unified Threat Management
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UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
227
VDI
Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure
228
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
229
VLSM
Variable Length Subnet Masking
230
VoIP
Voice over IP
231
VPN
Virtual Private Network
232
VTC
Video Teleconferencing
233
WAF
Web-Application Firewall
234
WAP
Wireless Access Point
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WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
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WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
237
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
238
WPA
Wireless Protected Access
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WPA2
WiFi Protected Access 2
240
WPS
WiFi Protected Setup
241
WTLS
Wireless TLS
242
XML
Extensible Markup Language
243
XSRF
Cross-Site Request Forgery
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XSS
Cross-Site Scripting
