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Security+ Hardware

Security+ Flash Cards - Hardware Terms

TermDefinitionExplanation
AP Access Point
CCTV Closed-circuit Television
ESN Electronic Serial Number The ESN is a unique identification number embedded by manufacturers on a microchip in wireless phones. The ESN is automatically transmitted to a base station when a call is made. The carrier's mobile switching office then detects the ESN and checks the validity of the call to prevent fraud.
FDE Full Disk Encryption
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HSM Hardware Security Module
MBR Master Boot Record
MFD Multi-Function Device
PED Portable Electronic Device "Examples of PEDs are: Examples are laptop computers, tablets, e-readers, smartphones, MP3 players, drones and electronic toys."
PTZ Pan-Tilt-Zoom
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Drives (Disks)
RFID Radio Frequency Identifier
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SED Self-encrypting Drive
SIM Subscriber Identity Module The SIM card securely stores the IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) number used to identify the user of a mobile phone.
SoC System on a Chip "Integrates a CPU, graphics, RAM and data storage on an integrated circuit board. A smartwatch and a Raspberry Pi are examples. "
SSD Solid State Drive
STP (2) Shielded Twisted Pair
TPM Trusted Platform Module
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
USB Universal Serial Bus
USB OTG USB On The Go
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
WAP Wireless Access Point
WORM Write Once Read Many
RAID 0 Striping Data striped across multiple disks. No redundancy.
RAID 1 Mirroring Data copied to two or more disks.
RAID 6 Striping with dual parity Data is striped across multiple disks. Two sets of parity info is striped across each disk.
RAID 1+0 Stripe of Mirrors Minimum of four disks. Contains at least two RAID 1 mirrors that are also striped.
RAID 5 Striping with parity Data is striped across multiple disks. Parity info is also striped across each disk.
ANT "a proprietary, ultra low power, wireless protocol used primarily by sensors for communicating data" "Wireless technology generally used for fitness and health sensors that can spend long periods in low-power mode and activate briefly during reception and transmission. ANT is part of Garmin Canada, but is interoperable with other vendors like Android, Sony and Ericsson."
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