Security+ Acronyms

Security+ (SY0-701)

AAA

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting.

ACL

Access Control List.

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard.

AES-256

Advanced Encryption Standards, 256-bit.

AH

Authentication Header.

AI

Artificial Intelligence.

AIS

Automated Indicator Sharing.

ALE

Annualized Loss Expectancy.

AP

Access Point.

API

Application Programming Interface.

APT

Advanced Persistent Threat.

ARO

Annualized Rate of Occurrence.

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol.

ASLR

Address Space Layout Randomization.

ATT&CK

Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge.

AUP

Acceptable Use Policy.

AV

Antivirus.

BASH

Bourne Again Shell.

BCP

Business Continuity Planning.

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol.

BIA

Business Impact Analysis.

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System.

BPA

Business Partners Agreement.

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit.

BYOD

Bring Your Own Device.

CA

Certificate Authority.

CAPTCHA

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.

CAR

Corrective Action Report.

CASB

Cloud Access Security Broker.

CBC

Cipher Block Chaining.

CCMP

Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol.

CCTV

Closed-Circuit Television.

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team.

CFB

Cipher Feedback.

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol.

CIA

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability.

CIO

Chief Information Officer.

CIRT

Computer Incident Response Team.

CMS

Content Management System.

COOP

Continuity of Operations Planning.

COPE

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled.

CP

Contingency Planning.

CRC

Cyclical Redundancy Check.

CRL

Certificate Revocation List.

CSO

Chief Security Officer.

CSP

Cloud Service Provider.

CSR

Certificate Signing Request.

CSRF

Cross-Site Request Forgery.

CSU

Channel Service Unit.

CTM

Counter Mode.

CTO

Chief Technology Officer.

CVE

Common Vulnerability Enumeration.

CVSS

Common Vulnerability Scoring System.

CYOD

Choose Your Own Device.

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

Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral.

DKIM

Domain Keys Identified Mail.

DLL

Dynamic Link Library.

DLP

Data Loss Prevention.

DMARC

Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance.

DNAT

Destination Network Address Translation.

DNS

Domain Name System.

DoS

Denial of Service.

DPO

Data Privacy Officer.

DRP

Disaster Recovery Plan.

DSA

Digital Signature Algorithm.

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line.

EAP

Extensible Authentication Protocol.

ECB

Electronic Code Book.

ECC

Elliptic Curve Cryptography.

ECDHE

Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral.

ECDSA

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.

EDR

Endpoint Detection and Response.

EFS

Encrypted File System.

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning.

ESN

Electronic Serial Number.

ESP

Encapsulated Security Protocol.

FACL

File System Access Control List.

FDE

Full Disk Encryption.

FIM

File Integrity Management.

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array.

FRR

False Rejection Rate.

FTP

File Transfer Protocol.

FTPS

Secured File Transfer Protocol.

GCM

Galois Counter Mode.

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation.

GPG

Gnu Privacy Guard.

GPO

Group Policy Object.

GPS

Global Positioning System.

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit.

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation.

HA

High Availability.

HDD

Hard Disk Drive.

HIDS

Host-based Intrusion Detection System.

HIPS

Host-based Intrusion Prevention System.