Acronyms in IT
A ‘short’ list of Acronyms I have come across since working in IT. This isnt a full list but I will be sure to add to it!
ACL | Access Control List |
AP | Access Point |
ADFS | Active Directory Federation Service |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
APT | Advanced Persistent Threat |
ATP | Advanced Threat Protection |
AV | Anti-Virus |
BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
BCM | Business Continuity Management |
BCP | Business Continuity Plan |
B2B | Business to Business |
B2C | Business to Consumer/Customer |
CIS | Center for Internet Security |
CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
CVSS | Common Vulnerability Scoring System |
CWE | Common Weaknesses Enumeration |
CMDB | Configuration Management Database |
XSS | Cross Site Scripting |
CSRF | Cross-Site Request Forgery |
DES | Data Encryption Standard |
DLP | Data Loss Prevention |
DPA | Data Protection Act. |
DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
DNS | Domain Name Server |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
EDR | Endpoint Detection and Response |
EISA | Enterprise Information Security Architecture |
EM&S | Enterprise Mobility and Security |
EWS | Exchange Web Services |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
GRC | Governance, Risk and Compliance |
GPT | GUID Partition Table |
HIPS | Host Intrusion and Prevention Service |
HTTP/S | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol/Secure |
IAM | Identity and Access Management |
ISF | Information Security Forum |
ISMS | Information Security Management System |
IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
IIS | Internet Information Server |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPSec | Internet Protocol Security |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
IPS | Intrusion and Prevention Service |
IDS | Intrusion Detection Service |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LAN | Local Area Network |
MX | Mail Exchanger |
MITM | Man In The Middle |
MBR | Master Boot Record |
MAC | Media Access Control |
MDT | Microsoft Deployment Toolkit |
MAM | Mobile Application Management |
MDM | Mobile Device Management |
MTD | Mobile Threat Defence |
MFA | Multifactor Authentication |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NVD | National Vulnerability Database |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NGAV | Next Generation Anti Virus |
NGFW | Next Generation Firewall |
ODBC | Online Database Connection |
OSINT | Open Source Intelligence |
PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
PaaS | Platform as a Service |
POP | Post Office Protocol |
PPDR | Predict, Prevent, Detect, Respond |
PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
SSH | Secure Shell |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
SIEM | Security Information & Event Management |
SOC | Security Operations Center |
SOAR | Security Orchestration, Automation and Response |
SPF | Sender Policy Framework |
SMB | Server Message Block |
SLA | Service Level Agreement |
SSID | Service Set Identifier |
SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
SPF | Shortest Path First |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SSO | Single Sign-On |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
SaaS | Software as a Service |
SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition |
SCCM | System Center Configuration Manager |
TACACS | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
UPS | Uninterruptable Power Supply |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
UEBA | User Entity and Behavioural Analytics |
VM | Virtual Machine |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
Vuln. Mgmt. | Vulnerability Management |
Way to many!
This is only the tip of the iceberg, I have more to add!
You missed out MSTSC 🙂
Thanks JDX, will add it in shortly 🙂
Theres about 100 new ones to start adding lol like SD-WAN, SASE, SSE ect.
To add to your list: SSE,SASE,CSPM,IR,AWS,GCP,HSM,XSS, RAT
More to come