Security+ Acronyms

SECURITY+ ACRONYMS

3DES – Triple Digital Encryption Standard
AAA – Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting ACL – Access Control List
AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
AES256 – Advanced Encryption Standards 256bit AH – Authentication Header
ALE – Annualized Loss Expectancy
AP – Access Point
API – Application Programming Interface
ASP – Application Service Provider
ARO – Annualized Rate of Occurrence
ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
AUP – Acceptable Use Policy
BAC – Business Availability Center
BCP – Business Continuity Planning
BIA- Business Impact Analysis
BIOS – Basic Input / Output System
BPA – Business Partners Agreement
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
CA – Certificate Authority
CAC – Common Access Card
CAN – Controller Area NetworkCAPTCHA- Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

CAR- Corrective Action Report

CCMP – Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol

CCTV – Closed-circuit television
CERT – Computer Emergency Response Team
CHAP – Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol CIO– Chief Information Officer

CIRT – Computer Incident Response Team COOP – Continuity of Operation Planning CP – Contingency Planning
CRC – Cyclical Redundancy Check

CRL – Certification Revocation List CSR – Control Status Register
CSU – Channel Service Unit
CTO- Chief Technology Officer DAC – Discretionary Access Control

DBA– Database Administrator
DDOS – Distributed Denial of Service
DEP – Data Execution Prevention
DES – Digital Encryption Standard
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHE – Data-Handling Electronics
DHE – Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
DLL – Dynamic Link Library
DLP – Data Loss Prevention
DMZ – Demilitarized Zone
DNAT – Destination Network Address Transaction DNS – Domain Name Service (Server)
DOS – Denial of Service
DRP – Disaster Recovery Plan
DSA – Digital Signature Algorithm
DSL – Digital Subscriber line
DSU – Data Service Unit
EAP – Extensible Authentication Protocol
ECC – Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECDHE – Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral EFS – Encrypted File System
EMI – Electromagnetic Interference
ESN- Electronic Serial Number
ESP – Encapsulated Security Payload
FACL- File System Access Control List
FDE– Full Disk Encryption
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
FTPS – Secured File Transfer Protocol
GPG – Gnu Privacy Guard
GPO – Group Policy Object
GPS – Global Positioning System
GPU – Graphic Processing Unit
GRE – Generic Routing Encapsulation
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HIDS – Host Based Intrusion Detection System HIPS – Host Based Intrusion Prevention System HMAC – Hashed Message Authentication Code HOTP – HMAC based One Time Password
HSM – Hardware Security Module
HTML – HyperText Markup Language
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL

HVAC – Heating, Ventilation Air Conditioning IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol
ID – Identification

IDS – Intrusion Detection System
IKE – Internet Key Exchange
IM – Instant messaging
IMAP4 – Internet Message Access Protocol v4 IP – Internet Protocol

IPSEC – Internet Protocol Security
IR– Incident Response
IRC – Internet Relay Chat
IRP – Incident Response Procedure
ISA – Interconnection Security Agreement ISP – Internet Service Provider

ISSO- Information Systems Security Officer ITCP – IT Contingency Plan
IV – Initialization Vector
JBOD– Just a Bunch of Disks

KDC – Key Distribution Center
L2TP – Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LAN – Local Area Network
LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LEAP – Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol MaaS- Monitoring as a Service
MAC – Mandatory Access Control / Media Access Control MAC – Message Authentication Code
MAN – Metropolitan Area Network
MBR – Master Boot Record
MD5 – Message Digest 5
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding

MPLS – Multi-Protocol Layer Switch
MSCHAP – Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

MTBF – Mean Time Between Failures MTTR – Mean Time to Recover MTTF – Mean Time to Failure
MTU – Maximum Transmission Unit NAC – Network Access Control

NAT – Network Address Translation
NDA – Non-Disclosure Agreement
NFC– Near Field Communication
NIDS – Network Based Intrusion Detection System

NIPS – Network Based Intrusion Prevention System NIST – National Institute of Standards & Technology NOS – Network Operating System

NTFS – New Technology File System

NTLM – New Technology LANMAN
NTP – Network Time Protocol
OCSP – Online Certificate Status Protocol OLA – Open License Agreement

OS – Operating System
OVAL – Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
P2P – Peer to Peer
PAC– Proxy Auto Configuration
PAM – Pluggable Authentication Modules
PAP – Password Authentication Protocol
PAT – Port Address Translation
PBKDF2 – Password Based Key Derivation Function 2
PBX – Private Branch Exchange
PCAP – Packet Capture
PEAP – Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PED – Personal Electronic Device
PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
PII – Personally Identifiable Information
PIV – Personal Identity Verification
PKI – Public Key Infrastructure
POTS – Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP – Point-to-point Protocol
PPTP – Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PSK – Pre-Shared Key
PTZ – Pan-Tilt-Zoom
RA – Recovery Agent
RAD – Rapid application development
RADIUS – Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server
RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAS – Remote Access Server
RBAC – Role Based Access Control
RBAC – Rule Based Access Control
RC4 – RSA Variable Key Size Encryption Algorithm
RIPEMD – RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest ROI – Return of Investment
RPO – Recovery Point Objective
RSA – Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
RTO – Recovery Time Objective

RTP – Real-Time Transport Protocol

S/MIME – Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SAML – Security Assertions Markup Language
SaaS – Software as a Service
SAN – Storage Area Network
SCADA – System Control and Data Acquisition
SCAP – Security Content Automation Protocol
SCEP- Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
SCSI – Small Computer System Interface
SDLC – Software Development Life Cycle
SDLM – Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
SEH – Structured Exception Handler
SHA – Secure Hashing Algorithm
SFTP – Secured File Transfer Protocol
SHTTP – Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
SIEM – Security Information and Event Management
SIM – Subscriber Identity Module
SLA – Service Level Agreement
SLE – Single Loss Expectancy
SMS – Short Message Service
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
SONET – Synchronous Optical Network Technologies
SPIM – Spam over Internet Messaging
SQL – Structured Query Language
SSD – Solid State Drive
SSH – Secure Shell
SSL – Secure Sockets Layer
SSO – Single Sign On
STP – Shielded Twisted Pair
TACACS+ – Terminal Access Controller Access Control System TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol TGT– Ticket Granting Ticket
TKIP – Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLS – Transport Layer Security
TOTP – Time-Based One-Time Password
TPM – Trusted Platform Module
TSIG – Transaction Signature
UAT – User Acceptance Testing
UEFI – Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UDP- User Datagram Protocol

UPS – Uninterruptable Power Supply URI- Uniform Resource Identifier URL – Universal Resource Locator USB – Universal Serial Bus

UTM- Unified Threat Management
UTP – Unshielded Twisted Pair
VDI – Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
VoIP – Voice over IP
VPN – Virtual Private Network
VTC – Video Teleconferencing
WAF- Web-Application Firewall
WAP – Wireless Access Point
WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy
WIDS – Wireless Intrusion Detection System WIPS – Wireless Intrusion Prevention System WPA – Wireless Protected Access
WPA2 – WiFi Protected Access 2
WPS – WiFi Protected Setup
WTLS – Wireless TLS
XML – Extensible Markup Language
XSRF- Cross-Site Request Forgery
XSS – Cross-Site Scripting