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 đ
Thanks JDX, will add it in shortly đ
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