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| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy
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| ACL | Access Control List
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| AP | Access Point
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| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol
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| ASLR | Address Space Layout Randomization
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| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard
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| APT | Advanced Persistent Threat
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| ALE | Annualized Loss Expectancy
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| ARO | Annualized Rate of Occurrence
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| ALG | Application Level Gateway
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| API | Application Programming Interface
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| ASP | Application Service Provider
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| AH | Authentication Header
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| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System
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| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol
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| BPDU | Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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| BYOD | Bring Your Own Device
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| BCP | Business Continuity Planning
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| BPA | Business Partners Agreement
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| CRL | Certificate Revocation List
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| CSR | Certificate Signing Request
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| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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| CMT | Change Management Team
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| CSU | Channel Service Unit
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| CIO | Chief Information Officer
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| CSO | Chief Security Officer
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| CTO | Chief Technology Officer
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| COPPA | Children'S Online Privacy Protection Act
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| CFB | Cipher Feedback
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| CCTV | Closed-Circuit Television
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| CSP | Cloud Service Provider
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| CAC | Common Access Card
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| CGI | Common Gateway Interface
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| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
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| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team
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| CIRT | Computer Incident Response Team
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| CAM Table | Content Addressable Memory Table
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| CMS | Content Management System
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| CP | Contingency Planning
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| COOP | Continuity Of Operation Planning
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| CAN | Controller Area Network
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| CAR | Corrective Action Report
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| CCMP | Counter-mode/CBC-MAC Protocol
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| XSRF | Cross-Site Request Forgery
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| XSS | Cross-Site Scripting
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| CRM | Customer Relationship Management
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| CRC | Cyclical Redundancy Check
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| DES | Data Encryption Standard
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| DEP | Data Execution Prevention
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| DLP | Data Loss Prevention
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| DSU | Data Service Unit
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| DBA | Database Administrator
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| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone
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| DoS | Denial of Service
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| DNAT | Destination Network Address Translation
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| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm
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| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line
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| DAC | Discretionary Access Control
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| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service
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| DNS | Domain Name Service (Server)
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| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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| DLL | Dynamic Link Library
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| EEPROM | Electrically Erasavle Programmable Read–Only Memory
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| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference
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| ESN | Electronic Serial Number
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| ECDHE | Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Exchange
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| ECDSA | Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
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| ECC | Elliptic Key Cryptography
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| ESP | Encapsulating Security Payload
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| EFS | Encrypted File System
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| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning
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| EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol
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| EAPoIP | Extensible Authentication Protocol over IP
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| XML | Extensible Markup Language
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| FRR | False Rejection Rate
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| FACL | File system Access Control List
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol
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| FCrDNS | Forward Confirmed reverse DNS
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| FDE | Full Disk Encryption
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| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name
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| GCM | Galois Counter Mode
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| GRE | Generic Routing Encapsulation
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| GPS | Global Positioning System
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| GPG | GNU Privacy Guard
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| GLBA | Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act
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| GPU | Graphic Processing Unit
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| GPO | Group Policy Object
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| HDD | Hard Disk Drive
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| HMAC | Hashed Message Authentication Code
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| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act
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| HVAC | Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
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| HA | High Availability
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| HOTP | HMAC-based One Time Password
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| HIDS | Host Intrusion Detection Systems
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| HIPS | Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
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| HSRP | Hot Standby Router Protocol
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| Web Proxy | HTTP Proxy
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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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| IdP | Identity Provider
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| IRP | Incident Response Procedure
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| ICS | Industrial Control Systems
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| IA | Information Assurance
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| ILM | Information Lifecycle Management
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| ISSO | Information Systems Security Officer
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| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service
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| IV | Initialization Vector
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| RIPEMD RACE | Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
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| ISA | Interconnection Security Agreement
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| IDF | Intermediate Distribution Frame
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| IDEA | International Data Encryption Algorithm
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| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol
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| IKE | Internet key Exchange
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| IMAP4 | Internet Message Access Protocol v4
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| IoT | Internet of Things
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| IP | Internet Protocol
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| IPSec | Internet Protocol Security
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| IRC | Internet Relay Chat
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| ISP | Internet Service Provider
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| IDS | Intrusion Detection System
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| ITCP | IT Contingency Plan
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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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| KHMAC | Key Hashing for Message Authentication Code
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| UR | L Universal Resource Locator
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| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
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| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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| LEAP | Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
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| LAN | Local Area Network
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| LFM | Log File Monitor
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| MX Record | Mail Exchange Record
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| MDF | Main Distribution Frame
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| MAC | Mandatory Access Control
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| MITM Attack | Man-in-the-Middle Attack
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| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit
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| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures
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| MTTF | Mean Time To Failure
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| MTTR | Mean Time To Recover
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| MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding
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| MAC | Message Authentication Code
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| MD5 | Message-Digest Algorithm 5
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| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network
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| MSCHAP | Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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| MTSO | Mobile Telecommunications Switching Office
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| MaaS | Monitoring as a Service
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| MPLS | Multi-Protocol Layer Switch
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| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology
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| NFC | Near Field Communication
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| NAC | Network Access Control
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| NAC | Network Address Control
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| NAT | Network Address Translation
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| NAS | Network Attached Storage
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| NIDS | Network Intrusion Detection System
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| NIPS | Network Intrusion Prevention System
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| NMS | Network Management System
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| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol
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| NOS | Network Operating System
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| NTP | Network Time Protocol
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| NTFS | New Technology File System
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| NTLM | New Technology LAN Manager
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| NX | No Execute
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| NDA | Non-Disclosure Agreement
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| OTP | One Time Pad
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| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol
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| OAUTH | Open Authorization
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| OLA | Open License Agreement
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| OVAL | Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
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| OS | Operating System
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| PCAP | Packet Capture
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| PTZ | Pan-Tilt-Zoom
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| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol
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| PBKDF2 | Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
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| P2P | Peer to Peer
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| PFS | Perfect Forward Secrecy
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| PDoS Attack | Permanent DoS Attack
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| PED | Personal Electronic Device
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| PIV | Personal Identity Verification
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| PII | Personally Identifiable Information
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| POD | Ping Of Death
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| POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service
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| PaaS | Platform as a Service
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| PAM | Pluggable Authentication Modules
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| POP | Point of Presence
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| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol
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| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
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| PAT | Port Address Translation
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| POP3 | Post Office Protocol v3
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| PSK | Pre-Shared Key
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| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy
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| PBX | Private Branch Exchange
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| PROM | Programmable Read–Only Memory
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| PEAP | Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
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| PAC | Proxy Auto Configuration
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| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure
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| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network
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| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference
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| RAD | Rapid Application Development
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| RTP | Real-time Transport Protocol
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| RA | Recovery Agent
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| RPO | Recovery Point Objectives
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| RTO | Recovery Time Objectives
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| RAID 1 | Redundant Array of Independent Disks 1
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| RAID 5 | Redundant Array of Independent Disks 5
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| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
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| RA | Registration Authority
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| RAS | Remote Access Service
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| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server
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| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol
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| RTBH Filtering | Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering
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| ROI | Return On Investment
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| RSA | Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
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| RBAC | Role–Based Access Control
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| RC4 | RSA Variable Key Size Encryption Algorithm
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| Sarbox | Sarbanes–Oxley Act
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| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm
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| SHTTP | Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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| SSH | Secure Shell
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| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer
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| S/MIME | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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| SFTP | Secured File Transfer Protocol
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| SAML | Security Assertions Markup Language
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| SCAP | Security Content Automation Protocol
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| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management
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| SPA | Security Posture Assessments
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| SoD | Separation of Duties
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| SMB Protocol | Server Message Block Protocol
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| SLA | Service Level Agreement
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| SP | Service Pack
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| SSID | Service Set Identifier
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| SCP | Session Control Protocol
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| STP | Shielded Twisted Pair
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| SMS | Short Message Service
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| SCEP | Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
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| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol
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| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol
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| SLE | Single Loss Expectancy
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| SSO | Single Sign-On
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| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface
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| SaaS | Software as a Service
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| SDLM | Software Development Life Cycle Methodology
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| SSD | Solid State Drive
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| SPIM | Spam over Internet Messaging
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| SPI | Stateful Packet Inspection
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| Static NAT | Static Network Address Translation
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| SAN | Storage Area Network
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| SEH | Structured Exception Handler
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| SQL | Structured Query Language
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| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module
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| SONET | Synchronous Optical Network Technologies
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| SCADA | System Control and Data Acquisition
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| SIV | System Integrity Verifier
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| SDLC | Systems Development Life Cycle
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| TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
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| TACACS | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
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| TACACS+ | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus
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| TGT | Ticket Granting Ticket
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| TOTP | Time-based One-Time Password
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| TSIG | Transaction Signature
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| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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| TLS | Transport Layer Security
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| 3DES | Triple Data Encryption Standard
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| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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| TCSEC | Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
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| TPM | Trusted Platform Module
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| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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| UTM | Unified Threat Management
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| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier
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| UPS | Uninterruptable Power Supply
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| USB | Universal Serial Bus
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| UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair
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| UAT | User Acceptance Testing
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| UAC | User Account Control
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| UDP | User Datagram Protocol
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| VLSM | Variable Length Subnet Masking
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| VTC | Video Teleconferencing
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| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network
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| VLAN Hopping | Virtual Local Area Network Hopping
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| VM | Virtual Machine
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| VPN | Virtual Private Network
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| VDI | Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure
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| VoIP | Voice over IP
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| WAF | Web-Application Firewall
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| WPA | WiFi Protected Access
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| WPS | WiFi Protected Setup
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| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy
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| WAP | Wireless Access Point
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| WIDS | Wireless Intrusion Detection System
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| WIPS | Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
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| WTLS | Wireless TLS
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