CompTIA Acronyms

Authentication

Access Control List

Advanced Encryption Standard

Advanced Encryption Standards 256-bit

Authentication Header

Artificial Intelligence

Automated Indicator Sharing

Annualized Loss Expectancy

Access Point

Application Programming Interface

Advanced Persistent Threat

Annualized Rate of Occurrence

Address Resolution Protocol

Address Space Layout Randomization

Adversarial Tactics

Acceptable Use Policy

Antivirus

Bourne Again Shell

Business Continuity Planning

Border Gateway Protocol

Business Impact Analysis

Basic Input/Output System

Business Partners Agreement

Bridge Protocol Data Unit

Bring Your Own Device

Certificate Authority

Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

Corrective Action Report

Cloud Access Security Broker

Cipher Block Chaining

Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol

Closed-circuit Television

Computer Emergency Response Team

Cipher Feedback

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

Confidentiality

Chief Information Officer

Computer Incident Response Team

Content Management System

Continuity of Operation Planning

Corporate Owned

Contingency Planning

Cyclical Redundancy Check

Certificate Revocation List

Chief Security Officer

Cloud Service Provider

Certificate Signing Request

Cross-site Request Forgery

Channel Service Unit

Counter Mode

Chief Technology Officer

Common Vulnerability Enumeration

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Choose Your Own Device

Discretionary Access Control

Database Administrator

Distributed Denial of Service

Data Execution Prevention

Digital Encryption Standard

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral

DomainKeys Identified Mail

Dynamic Link Library

Data Loss Prevention

Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance

Destination Network Address Translation

Domain Name System

Denial of Service

Data Privacy Officer

Disaster Recovery Plan

Digital Signature Algorithm

Digital Subscriber Line

Extensible Authentication Protocol

Electronic Code Book

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

Endpoint Detection and Response

Encrypted File System

Enterprise Resource Planning

Electronic Serial Number

Encapsulated Security Payload

File System Access Control List

Full Disk Encryption

File Integrity Management

Field Programmable Gate Array

False Rejection Rate

File Transfer Protocol

Secured File Transfer Protocol

Galois Counter Mode

General Data Protection Regulation

Gnu Privacy Guard

Group Policy Object

Global Positioning System

Graphics Processing Unit

Generic Routing Encapsulation

High Availability

Hard Disk Drive

Host-based Intrusion Detection System

Host-based Intrusion Prevention System

Hashed Message Authentication Code

HMAC-based One-time Password

Hardware Security Module

Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Heating

Infrastructure as a Service

Infrastructure as Code

Identity and Access Management

Internet Control Message Protocol

Industrial Control Systems

International Data Encryption Algorithm

Intermediate Distribution Frame

Identity Provider

Intrusion Detection System

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Internet Key Exchange

Instant Messaging

Internet Message Access Protocol

Indicators of Compromise

Internet of Things

Internet Protocol

Intrusion Prevention System

Internet Protocol Security

Incident Response

Internet Relay Chat

Incident Response Plan

International Standards Organization

Internet Service Provider

Information Systems Security Officer

Initialization Vector

Key Distribution Center

Key Encryption Key

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

Local Area Network

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

Monitoring as a Service

Mandatory Access Control / Media Access Control / Message Authentication Code

Metropolitan Area Network

Master Boot Record

Message Digest 5

Main Distribution Frame

Mobile Device Management

Multifactor Authentication

Multifunction Device

Multifunction Printer

Machine Learning

Multimedia Message Service

Memorandum of Agreement

Memorandum of Understanding

Multi-protocol Label Switching

Master Service Agreement

Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

Managed Service Provider

Managed Security Service Provider

Mean Time Between Failures

Mean Time to Failure

Mean Time to Recover

Maximum Transmission Unit

Network Access Control

Network Address Translation

Non-disclosure Agreement

Near Field Communication

Next-generation Firewall

Network-based Intrusion Detection System

Network-based Intrusion Prevention System

National Institute of Standards & Technology

New Technology File System

New Technology LAN Manager

Network Time Protocol

Open Authorization

Online Certificate Status Protocol

Object Identifier

Operating System

Open-source Intelligence

Open Shortest Path First

Operational Technology

Over the Air

Open Vulnerability Assessment Language

PKCS #12

Peer to Peer

Platform as a Service

Proxy Auto Configuration

Privileged Access Management / Pluggable Authentication Modules

Password Authentication Protocol

Port Address Translation

Password-based Key Derivation Function 2

Private Branch Exchange

Packet Capture

DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

Power Distribution Unit

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

Personal Electronic Device

Privacy Enhanced Mail

Perfect Forward Secrecy

Pretty Good Privacy

Personal Health Information

Personally Identifiable Information

Personal Identity Verification

Public Key Cryptography Standards

Public Key Infrastructure

Post Office Protocol

Plain Old Telephone Service

Point-to-Point Protocol

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

Pre-shared Key

Pan-tilt-zoom

Potentially Unwanted Program

Recovery Agent / Registration Authority

Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe

Rapid Application Development

Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Remote Access Server

Remote Access Trojan

Role-based Access Control / Rule-based Access Control

Rivest Cipher version 4

Remote Desktop Protocol

Radio Frequency Identifier

RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest

Return on Investment

Recovery Point Objective

Rivest

Remotely Triggered Black Hole

Recovery Time Objective

Real-time Operating System

Real-time Transport Protocol

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Software as a Service

Simultaneous Authentication of Equals

Security Assertions Markup Language

Storage Area Network / Subject Alternative Name

Secure Access Service Edge

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

Security Content Automation Protocol

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

Software-defined Wide Area Network

Software Development Kit

Software Development Lifecycle

Software Development Lifecycle Methodology

Software-defined Networking

Linux Security-enhanced Linux

Self-encrypting Drives

Structured Exception Handler

Secured File Transfer Protocol

Secure Hashing Algorithm

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Security Information and Event Management

Subscriber Identity Module

Service-level Agreement

Single Loss Expectancy

Short Message Service

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure

Simple Network Management Protocol

Simple Object Access Protocol

Security Orchestration

System on Chip / Security Operations Center

Statement of Work

Sender Policy Framework

Spam over Internet Messaging

Structured Query Language

SQL Injection

Secure Real-Time Protocol

Solid State Drive

Secure Shell

Secure Sockets Layer

Single Sign-on

Structured Threat Information eXchange

Secure Web Gateway

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Ticket Granting Ticket

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

Transport Layer Security

Time-of-check

Time-based One-time Password

Time-of-use

Trusted Platform Module

Tactics

Transaction Signature

User Acceptance Testing

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

User Datagram Protocol

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

Unified Endpoint Management

Uninterruptable Power Supply

Uniform Resource Identifier

Universal Resource Locator

Universal Serial Bus

USB On the Go

Unified Threat Management

Unshielded Twisted Pair

Visual Basic

Virtual Desktop Environment

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Local Area Network