Security Plus Acronyms Flashcards
(298 cards)
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3DES
A
Triple Data Encryption Standard
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AAA
A
Authentication Authorization and Accounting
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ACE
A
Access Control Entry
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ACK
A
Acknowledge
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ACL
A
Access Control List
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AES
A
Advanced Encryption Standard
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AES-256
A
Advanced Encryption Standard-256
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AH
A
Authentication Header
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ALE
A
Annual Lost Expectancy
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AP
A
Access Point
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API
A
Application Programming Interface
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APT
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Advanced Persistent Threat
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ARO
A
Annual Rate of Occurrence
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ARP
A
Address Resolution Protocol
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASP
A
Application Service Provider
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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
A
Business Continuity Plan
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BIA
A
Business Impact Analysis
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BIND
A
Berkley Internet Name Domain
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BIOS
A
Basic Input/Output System
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BPA
A
Business Partners Agreement
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BYOD
A
Bring Your Own Device
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CA
Certificate Authority
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CAC
Common Access Card
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CAN
Controller Area Network
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CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
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CAR
Corrective Action Report
30
CCMP
Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol
31
CCTV
Closed Circuit Television
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CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team
33
CHAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
34
CIA
Confidentiality, integrity, availability
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CIO
Chief Information Officer
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CIRT
Computer Incident Response Team
37
COOP
Continuity of Operations Planning
38
CP
Contingency Planning
39
CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Check
40
CSR
Certificate Signing Request
41
CRL
Certification Revocation List
42
CSR
Control Status Register
43
CSU
Channel Service Unit
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CTO
Chief Technology Officer
45
CVE
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
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DAC
Discretionary Access Control
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DACL
Discretionary Access Control List
48
DBA
Database Administrator
49
dBd
Decibels-dipole
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dBi
Decibels-isotropic
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dBm
Decibels-milliwatt
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DDoS
Distributed denial of service
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DEP
Data Execution Prevention
54
DES
Data Encryption Standard
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DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DHE
Data-Handling Electronics
57
DHE
Diffie-Hellmann Ephemeral
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DLL
Dynamic Link Library
59
DLP
Data Loss Prevention
60
DMZ
Demilitarize Zone
61
DNAT
Destination Network Access Translation
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DNAT
Dynamic Network Address Translation
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DNS
Domain Name System
64
DNSSEC
Domain Name System Security Extensions
65
DoS
Denial of Service
66
DRP
Disaster Recovery Plan
67
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
68
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
69
DSU
Data Service Unit
70
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocols
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EAP-TLS
Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security
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EAP-TTLS
Extensible Authentication Protocol-Tunneled Transport Layer Security
73
ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
74
ECDHE
Elliptic Curve Diffe-Hellman Ephemeral
75
EFS
Encrypting File System
76
EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
77
ESD
Electrostatic discharge
78
ESN
Electronic Serial Number
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ESP
Encapsulating Security Protocol
80
FACL
File Access System Control List
81
FCoE
Fiber Channel over Ethernet
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FDE
Full Disk Encryption
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol
84
FTPS
File Transfer Protocol Secure
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GPG
GNU Privacy Guard
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GPO
Group Policy Object
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GPS
Global Positioning System
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GRE
Generic Routing Encapsulation
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GUI
Graphical user interface
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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
93
HMAC
Hash based 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 Secure
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation , and air conditioning
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IaaS
Infrastructure of a service
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ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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ID
Identification
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IDS
Intrusion Detection System
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IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
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IIS
Internet Information Services
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IKE
Internet Key Exchange
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IM
Instant Messaging
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IMAP4
Internet Message Access Protocol version 4
110
IP
Internet Protocol
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IPS
Intrusion Prevention System
112
IPsec
Internet Protocol Security
113
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
114
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
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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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IRT
Incident Response Team
119
ISA
Interconnection Security Agreement
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iSCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface
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ISP
Internet Service Provider
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ISSO
Information Systems Security Officer
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IT
Information Technology
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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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L2TP
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
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LAN
Local Area Network
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LANMAN
Local area network Manager
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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LEAP
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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LSO
Local Shared Object
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MaaS
Monitoring as a Service or Management
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MAC
Mandatory Access Control
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MAC
Media Access Control
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MAC
Message Authentication Code
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Malware
Malicious Software
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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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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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MS-CHAP
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
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MTTF
Meant Time to Failure
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MTTR
Mean Time To Recover
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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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NDP
Neighborhood Discovery Protocol
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NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System
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NFC
Near Field Communication
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NIDS
Network-based intrusion detection system
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NIC
Network interface Card
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NIPS
Network-based intrusions prevention system
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NIST
National Institute of Standards of Technology
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NOP
No Operation
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NOS
Network Operating System
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NoSQL
Not Only Structured Query Language
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NTFS
NT File System
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NTLM
Net Technology LANMAN
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NTP
Network Time Protocol
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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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OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
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OVAL
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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P2P
Peer-2-Peer
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PaaS
Platform as a Service
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PAC
Proxy Auto Configuration
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PAM
Pluggable Authentication Modules
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PAN
Personal Area Network
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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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PDF
Portable Document Format
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PEAP
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
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PED
Personal Electronic Device
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PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
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PII
Personal Identifiable Information
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PIN
Personal Identification Number
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PIV
Personal Identity Verification Card
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PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
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POP3
Post Office Protocol Version 3
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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
Preshared Key
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PTZ
Pan Tilt Zoom
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RA
Recovery Agent
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
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RAID
Redundant array of inexpensive disks
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RAID 0
Disk striping, no fault tolerance
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RAID 1
Disk mirroring, two disks provides fault tolerance
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RAID 5
Disk striping with parity, 3 or more disks and fault tolerance
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RAID 6
Disk striping with parity. RAID-6 uses four or more disks and provides fault tolerance
202
RAM
Random Access Memory
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RAS
Remote Access Service
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RAT
Remote access tool
205
RC
Ron's Code
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RC4
Rivest Cipher
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RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
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RFI
Radio Frequency Interference
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RFID
Radio frequency identification
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RIPEMD
RACE integrity Primitive Evaluation Message Digest
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ROI
Return On Investment
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Role-BAC
Role-based Access Control
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RPO
Recovery Point Objective
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RSA
Rivest, Shamir, Adelman
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RSTP
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
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RTO
Recovery Time Objective
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RTP
Real Time Transport Protocol
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Rule-BAC
Rule based Access Control
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S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
220
SaaS
Software as a Service
221
SAML
Security Assertions Markup Language
222
SAN
Storage Area Network
223
SCADA
Supervisory 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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SCP
Secure Copy
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SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
228
SDLM
Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
229
SEH
Structured Exception Handler
230
SELinux
Security Enhanced Linux
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SFTP
Secure File Transfer Protocol
232
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
233
SHTTP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
234
SID
Security Identifier
235
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
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SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
237
SIRT
Security Incident Response Team
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SLA
Service Level Agreement
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SLE
Single Loss Expectancy
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SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
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SONET
Synchronous Optical Network Technologies
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SPIM
Spam over Internet Messaging
244
SPOF
Single Point of Failure
245
SQL
Structured Query Language
246
SSD
Solid State Drive
247
SSH
Secure Shell
248
SSID
Service Set Identifier
249
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
250
SSO
Single Sign On
251
SSTP
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
252
STP
Shielded twisted-pair
253
STP
Spanning Tree Protocol
254
SYN
Synchronize
255
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System +
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TCO
Total Cost of Ownership
257
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
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TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TGT
Ticket Granting Ticket
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TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
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TLS
Transport Layer Security
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TOTP
Time Based One Time Password
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TPM
Trusted Platform Module
265
TSIG
Transaction Signature
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UAT
User Acceptance Testing
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UDP
User Datagram Protocol
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UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
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URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
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URL
Uniform Resource Locator
272
USB
Universal Serial Bus
273
UTM
Unified Threat Management
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UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
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VDI
Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure
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VLAN
Virtual local area network
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VM
Virtual Machine
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VoIP
Voice Over IP
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VPN
Virtual Private Network
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VSAN
Virtual Storage Area Network
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VTC
Video Teleconferencing
282
WAF
Web Application Firewall
283
WAP
Wireless Access Point
284
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
285
WIDS
Wireless Intrusion Detection System
286
WIPS
Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
287
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
288
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
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WPA2
Wi-Fi Protected Access II
290
WPS
Wi-Fi Protected Setup
291
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer Security
292
XML
Extensible Markup Language
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XSRF
Cross-site request forgery
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XSS
Cross Site Scripting Attack
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XTACACS
Extended Terminal Access Controller
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VMI
Virtual Mobile Information
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COPE
Corporate Owned and Personally Enabled
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TPM
Trusted Platform Module
