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Net & Sec. Acks
Helps learn meaning of various Networking and Security aconyms
Acronym | Meaning |
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TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
SCP | Secure Copy Protocol |
FTPS | FTP Using Secure Sockets Layer |
SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol |
IPv6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
PING | Packet Internet Grouper |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
ARP | Adress Resolution Protocol |
RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
SSH | Secure Shell |
STP | Spanning Tree Protocol |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
PAT | Port Address Translation |
PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
WAP | Wireless Application Protocol or Wireless Access Point |
WAE | Wireless Application Environment (Part of WAP stack) |
WSP | Wireless Session Protocol (Part of WAP stack) |
WTP | Wireless Transaction Protocol (Part of WAP stack) |
WTLS | Wireless Transport Layer Security (Part of WAP stack) |
WDP | Wireless Datagram Protocol (Part of WAP stack) |
SSO | Single Sign-On |
TACACS | Terminal Access Control Access Control System |
RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial In User Service |
PKI | Public-Key Infrastructure |
SASL | Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
ACL | Access Control List |
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
PPPoE | Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet |
IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol |
LEAP | Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol |
PEAP | Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
S/MIME | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
ESP | Encapsulating Security Payload |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
IPsec | IP Security |
CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
RAS | Remote Access Service |
RRAS | Routing and Remote Access Service |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
MD | Message Digest |
SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
IDEA | International Data Encryption Algorithm |
DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
DES | Date Encryption Standard |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
DOCSIS | Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
OSCP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
OTP | One-time password |
CAC | Common Access Card |
PIV | Personal Identity Verification |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
HIDS | Host Intrusion Detection System |
NIDS | Network Intrusion Detection System |
NIPS | Network Intrusion Prevention System |
FIM | Federated Identity Management |
VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
ICA | Independent Computing Architecture |
CA | Certificate Authority |
RA | Registration Authority |
RSA | Rivest, Shamir and Adelman |
CR | Certificate Repository |
SHTTP | Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol |
MTTR | Mean Time to Restore |
DRP | Disaster Recovery Plan |
MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
RTO | Recovery Time Objective |
HVAC | Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning |
EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
RC | Rivest Cipher |