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Cybersecurity Glossary

A summary of the most abbreviations I encountered so far. Feel free to contribute via Pull request.

Abbreviation Meaning
3LOD Three Lines of Defense
A Availability
AAA Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
ACE Access Control Entry
ACLE Account Life Cycle Events
ACL Access Control List
ACME Automated Certificate Management Environment
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
AC Attack Complexity
AD DS Active Directory Domain Service
AEP ATT&CK Emulation Plans
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AH Authentication Header
AitM Adversary in the Middle
AMQP Advanced Message Query Protocol
AMSI Antimalware Scan Interface
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APIPA Automatic Pricate IP Addressing
API Application Programming Interface
APT Advanced Packaging Tool
APT Advanced Persistent Threat
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization
ASM Attack Surface Management
ASPX Active Server Page Extended
ASR Attack Surface Reduction
ASVS Application Security Verification Standard
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATT&CK Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge
ATT App Tracking Transparency
AuthPF Authentication Packet Filter
AV Antivirus
AV Attack Vector
AWL App White Listing
AXFR DNS Zone Transfer / DNS Query Type
AXS API Cross-Site Scripting
BEC Business Email Compromise
BFLA Broken Function Level Authorization
BFP Berkeley Packet Filter
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BIOC Behavioral Indicator of Compromise
BITS Background Intelligence Transfer Service
BLOB Binary Large Object
BOLA Broken Object Level Authorization
BSS Base Service Set
BYOL Bring Your Own Land
BYOVD Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver
C2 Command and Control
C3 Custom Command and Control
C4 Customizable Command and Control Center
CAM Content Addressable Memory
CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans appart
CAR Cyber Analytics Repository
CASB Cloud Access Security Broker
CBC-MAC Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code
CBC cypher Block Chaining
CBSP Cloud-Based Security Provider
ccTLD Country Code Top-Level Domain
CDC Cyber Defense Center
CDN Content Delivery Network
CDP Certificate Distribution Point
CEH Certified Ethical Hacker
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CFG Control Flow Guard
CFP Call for Papers
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
CI/CD Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
CIFS Common Internet File System
CLM Constrained Language Mode
CL Content-Length
CMMI Mellon Capability Maturity Model
CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation
CN Change Notice
COFF Common Object File Format
COLO Co-Location
COM Component Object Model
CONOPS Concept of Operations
CORS Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
CPRS Cross Origin Resource Sharing
CRC Code Ready Containers
CRI Container Runtime Interface
CRLF Carriage Return Line Feed
CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete
CSAF Common Security Advisory Framework
CSD Client-Side Desync
CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
CSPM Cloud Security Posture Management
CSPT Client-Side Path Traversal
CSP Content Security Policy
CSRF Client-Side Request Forgery
CSRSS Client Server Runtime Process
CTAP Client to Authenticator Protocol
CTA Czberroam Transparent Authentication
CTEM Continuous Threat Exposure Management
CTI Cyber Threat Intelligence
CU Content Update
CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVRF Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework
CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System
CWE Common Weakness Enumeration
C Confidentiality
D3FEND Detection, Denial, and Disruption Framework Empowering Network Defense
DAAS Data, Assets, Applications and Services
DACL Discretionary Access Control List
DAC Discretionary Access Control
DAD Destruction, Alteration, Disclosure
DAPP Decentralized Applications
DCIM Data Center Infrasctructure Management
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DDNS / DynDNS Dynamic Domain Name System
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DEFI Decentralized Finance
DEG Defender Exploit Guard
DEP Data Execution Prevention
DES Data Encryption Standard
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFIR Digital Forensics Incident Response
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIG Domain Information Groper
DI Dependency Injection
DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail
DLP Data Loss Prevention
DLR Dynamic Language Runtime
DMARC Domain-Based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DNF Dandified YUM
DNSBL Domain Name System-Based Blackhole List
DNSCAA DNS Certification Authority Authorization
DNSSEC Domain Name System Security Extensions
DNS Domain Name System
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOH DNS over HTTPS
DOM Document Object Model
DOT DNS over TLS
DPAPI Data Protection Application Programming Interface
DRDoS DNS Reflection Denial of Service
DREAD Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected Users, Discoverability
DRSAPI Directory Replication Service Remote Protocol
DRS Directory Replication Service
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DSCP Differntiated Services Code Point
DSP Digital Signal Procesor
DTD Document Type Definition
DTMF Dual Tome Multi Frequency
E2EE End-to-End Email Encryption
EAP-AKA' EAP Authentication and Key Agreement Prime
EAP-AKA EAP Authentication and Key Agreement
EAP-EKE EAP Encrypted Key Exchange
EAP-FAST EAP Flexble Authentication via Secure Tunneling
EAP-GTC EAP Generic Token Card
EAP-IKEv2 EAP Internet Key Exchange v2
EAP-NOOB EAP Nimble Out-of-Band Authentication
EAP-POTP EAP Protected One-Time Password
EAP-PSK EAP Pre-Shared Key
EAP-SIM EAP Subscriber Identity Module
EAP-TLS EAP Transport Layer Security
EAP-TTLS EAP Tunneled Transport Layer Security
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAR Execution After Redirect
eBGP External Border Gateway Protocol
EBP Extended Base Pointer
ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellmann
ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digitial Signature Algorithm
eCPPTv2 eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester
ECP Encryption Control Protocol
EDR Endpoint Detection and Response
EDTR Endpoint Detection and Threat Response
EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EIP Extended Instruction Pointer
eJPT eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester
ELF Executable and Linkable Format
ELK Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
EM Exposure Management
ESAE Enhanced Security Administrative Environment
ESI Edge Side Includes
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
ESP Extended Stack Pointer
ETW Event Tracing for Windows
FAANG Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google
FAST Flexible Authentication Secure Tunneling
FDE Full Disk Encryption
FIB Forward Information Base
FIDO Fast Identity Online
FIFO First In, First Out
FIM File Integrity Monitoring
FinTS Financial Transaction Services
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FLoC Federated Learning of Cohorts
FOSS Free and Open Source Software
FPM FastCGI Process Manager
FTTB Fiber to the Building
FTTC/K Fiber to the Curb / Kerb
FTTDP Fiber to the Distribution Point
FTTD Fiber to the Desktop
FTTE/Z Fiber to the Enclosure / Zone
FTTF Fiber to the Frontage
FTTH Fiber to the Home
FTTLA Fiber to the Last-Amplifier
FTTN Fiber to the Note
FTTO Fiber to the Office
FTTP Fiber to the Premises
FTTX Fiber to the X
FUD Fully Undetectable
GCM Galois Counter Mode
GCP Google Cloud Platform
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GMSA Group Managed Service Accounts
GOT Global Offset Table
GPON Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks
GPO Group Policy Object
GPP Group Policy Preferences
GRC Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GRPC Google Remote Procedure Calls
GSSAPI Generic Security Services Application Program Interface
gTLD Generic Top-Level Domain
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
HBCI Home Banking Computer Interface
HFC Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial
HID Human Interface Device
HIDS Host-Based Intrusion Detection System
HIPS Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
HMAC Hash-Based Message Authentication Code
HOTP HMAC-Based One-Time Password
HPC High Performance Computing
HQL Hybernate Query Language
HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSRP Host Standby Router Protocol
HSTS HTTP Strict Transport Security
HTA HTML Application
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
IAM Identity Access Management
IAVM Information Assurance Vulnerbaility Alert
iBGP Internal Border Gateway Protocol
IBN Intent-Based Networking
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IDN International Domain Name
IDOR Insecure Direct Object Reference
IDS Intrusion Detection System
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IFS Internal Field Separator
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing
IKE Internet Key Exchange
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMDS Instance Metadata Service Version
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IOA Indicator of Attack
IOC Indicator of Compromise
IOMMU Input-Output Memory Management Unit
IPAM IP Address Management
IPC Inter-Process Communication
IPFIX Internet Protocol Flow Information Export
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IPSEC Internet Protocol Security
IPS Intrusion Prevention System
IP Internet Protocol
IRDP ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System
ISAC Information Sharing and Analysis Center
ISAMKP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
ISO International Organization for Standardization
I Integrity
JEA Just Enough Administration
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
JSP Java Server Pages
JS JavaScript
JWKS JSON Web Key Set
KASLR Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization
KDC Key Distribution Center
KQL Kibana Query Language
LAPS Local Administrator Password Solution
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LEAP Lightweight Extensible Authentication
LFI Local File Inclusion
LIFO Last In, First Out
LINQ Language-Integrated Query
LKM Loadable Kernel Module
LLC Logical Link Layer
LLMNR Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
LLM Large Language Model
LOC Logistic Operation Center
LORAWAN Long Range Wide Area Network
LOTL Living of the Land
LPD Line Printer Daemon
LQL Lucene Query Language
LSASS Local Security Authority Subsystem Service
LSA Local Security Authority
LXC Linux Container
LXD Linux Daemon
MAC Mandatory Access Control
MAC Medium Access Control
MAC Message Authentication Code
mDNS Multicast DNS
MDR Managed Detection and Response
MD Message Digest
MEAN MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js
MFA Multi-Faktor Authentication
MIB Management Information Base
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MOK Machine Owner Key
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport Protocol
MS-NRPC Microsoft NetLogon Remote Protocol
MSHTA Microsoft HTML Application
MSSP Managed Security Service Provider
MSS Maximum Segment Size
MSTG Mobile Security Testing Guide
MTASTS Mail Transfer Agent-Strict Transport Security
MTA Mail Transfer Agent
MTLS Mutual TLS
NAK Negative Acknowledgement
NBNS NetBIOS Name Server
NBT-NS NetBIOS Name Service
NCSC National Cyber Security Centre
NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement
NDR Network Detection and Response
NFC Near-Field Communication
NFS Network File System
NGAV Next-Generation Antivirus
NGE Next Generation Encryption
NGFW Next-Generation Firewall
NIDS Network-based Intrusion Detection System
NIPS Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLA Network Level Authentication
NMI Non-maskable Interrupt
NMS Network Monitoring System
NOC Network Operation Center
NONCE Number used once
NoSQL Not only SQL
NoTW Mark-of-the-Web
NSX Full-Stack Network & Security Virtuakization
NTDS.DIT New Technology Directory Services Directory Information Tree
NTFS New Technology File System
NTLM New Technology Lan Manager
NX Non-Executable Stack
OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol
OGNL Object-Graph Navigation Language
OIDC Open ID Connect
OID Object Identifier
OOB Out-of-Band
OPSEC Operations Security
OPtH Overpass-the-Hash
OSCP Offensive Security Certified Professional
OSINT Open Source Intelligence Tools
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSSEC Open Source HIDS Security
OSSEM Open Source Security Event Metadata
OSSTMM Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual
OSWE Offensive Security Web Expert
OVAL Open Vulnerability and Assessment Framework
OWASP Open Web Application Security Project
OXID Object Exporter Identifier
PAC Privileged Account Certificate
PAM Pluggable Authentication Module
PAM Privileged Access Management
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PBKDF1 Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1
PBKDF2 Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
PCI Payment Card Industry
PEAP-MSCHAPv2 Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol MS-CHAPv2
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PEB Process Environment Block
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
PIE Position Independent Executable
PII Personally Identifiable Information
PIM Privileged Identity Management
PI Process Instrumentation
PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standard
PKI Public-Key Infrastructure
PNAC Port-Based Network Access Control
POC Phone Operation Center
POP Post Office Protocol
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
PPL Protected Process Light
PQC Post-Quantum Cryptography
ProgID Programmatic ID
PR Privileges Required
PSAD Port Scan Attack Detector
PSA Public Service Announcement
PTA Permission-to-Attack
PTK Pairwise Transient Key
PTK Penetration Testing Kit
QCR Quantum Computer Resistant
QEMU Quick Emulator
QUIC Quicik UDP Internet Connections
R&D Research and Development
RAX Register "a" extended
RBAC Role Based Access Control
RBCD Resource Based Constrained Delegation
RBL Realt-Time Blackhole List
RBL Return Black List
RBP Register Base Pointer
RBVM Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
RBX Register "b" extended
RC4 Rivest Cipher 4
RCX Register "c" extended
RDI Register Destination Index
RDNS REverse Domain Name System
RDP Responsible Disclosure Policy
RDX Register "d" extended
RELRO Relocation Read-Only
REST Representional State Transfer
RFC Request for Comments
RFI Remote File Inclusion
RID Relative Identifier
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RNDC Remote Name Daemon Control
ROE Rules of Engagement
ROP Return Oriented Programming
RPC Remote Procedure Calls
RPKI Resource Public Key Infrastructure
RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adlemann Algorithm
RSI Register Source Index
RSP Register Stack Pointer
RTCO Red Team Certified Operator
RTP Real-Time Transport Protocol
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
RX Receiving
S-SDLC Secure Software Development Lifecycle
S3 Simple Storage Service
S4U Service for User
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SAM Security Accounts Manager
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SAST Static Application Security Testing
SAS Secure Attention Sequence
SA Security Associations
SCD Source Code Disclosure
SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
SCM Service Control Manager
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network
SDDL Security Descriptor Definition Language
SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
SDL Security Development Lifecycle
SDO Statement of Applicability
SD Security Descriptor
SE Search Engine Optimization
SHIM First Stage Bootloader
SID Security Identifier
SIEM Security Information and Event Management
SIKE Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SKEL Skeleton
SLAAC Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
SMB Server Message Block
SMIME Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
SMSS Session Manager Subsystem
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAR Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
SOA Statement of Applicability
SOC Security Operations Center
SoC System on Chips
SOP Same Origin Policy
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SOQL Salesforce Object Query Language
SPA Sender Protocol Address
SPF Sender Policy Framework
SPI Security Parameter Index
SPN Service Principal Name
SPX Secure PDF Exchange
SQLI Server-Query Language Injection
SQL Structured Query Language
SRI Subresource Integrity
SSDLC Secure Software Development Life Cycle
SSDT Secondary System Descriptor Tables
SSE Server-Side Encryption
SSI Server Side Includes
SSIS SQL Server Integration Services
SSL Secure Socket Layer
SSN Syscall Service Numbers
SSOT Single Source of Truth
SSO Single Sign-On
SSPR Self-Service Password Reset
SSRF Server-Side Request Forgery
SSSD System Security Services Daemon
SSTF Scroll to Text Fragment
SSTI Server-Side Template Injection
STAS Sophos Transparent Authentication Suite
STEM Systematic, Threat, Evaluation, Methodology
STIG Security Technical Implementation Guide
STIX Structured Threat Information Expression
STRIDE Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege
STS Security Token Service
S Scope
TAN Transaction Authentication Number
TAXII Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence
TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evalutation Criteria
TEAP Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol
TEE Trusted Execution Environment
TELNET Teletype Network
TE Transfer-Encoding
TGS Ticket Granting Service
TGT Ticket Granting Ticket
THA Target Hardware Address
TIBER-EU Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red-Teaming
TI Threat Intelligence
TLD Top-Level Domain
TLP Traffic Light Protocol
TLPT Thread Led Penetration Testing
TLS Transport Layer Security
TOS Terms of Service
TOTP Time-Bases One-Time Password
TPM Trusted Platform Module
TPS Testing Procedure Specification
TSIG Transaction Signatures
TTP Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
TX Transmitting
UAF Use-After-Free
UIPI User Interface Privilege Isolation
UI User Interaction
UI User Interface
UPN User Principal Name
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USART Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
VACM View-Based Access Control Model
VBA Visual Basic for Application
VDP Vulnerbaility Disclosure Program
VICI Versatile IKE Configuration Interface
VOC Video Operation Center
VoLTE Voice over Long-Term Evolution
VPN Virtual Private Network
VSS Volume Shadow Copy
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Web Application Protection
WASM Web Assembly
WAT Web Assembly Text Format
WCD Web Cache Deception
WDAC Windows Defender Application Control
WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WinRM Windows Remote Management
WinRS Windows Remote Shell
WMIC Windows Management + Instrumentation Command-Line
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
WOFF Web Open Font Format
WORM Write Once, Read Many
WPA2 Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
WPAD Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WSH Windows Script Host
WSTG Web Security Testing Guide
XDP Express Data Path
XDR Extended Detection and Response
XHR XML HTTP Request
XOR Exclusive or
XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation
XSS Cross-Site Scripting
XST Cross-Site Tracing
XXE XML External Entity
YAML YAML Ain't Markup Language
YUM Yellowdog Updater, Modified
ZTA Zero Trust Approach
ZTNA Zero Trust Network Access

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