Cybersecurity Terms

Acronyms - D

D

• DAC - discretionary access control
• DAM - Database Activity Monitor
• DAP - dynamic access policies
• DAST - Dynamic Application Security Testing
• DCFW - Data Center Firewall
• DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service Attack
• DDoSaaS - Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
• DEP - Data Execution Prevention
• DES - Data Encryption Standard
• DevSecOps - Development Security Operations
• DGA - Dynamically-Generated Algorithm
• DLP - Data Leak Prevention
• DLP - Data Loss Prevention
• DMZ - Demilitarized Zone
• DoS - Denial-of-Service Attack
• DPI - Deep Packet Inspection engine

Acronyms - E

E

• EAC - electronic access control
• EAL - Evaluation Assurance Level
• EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol
• ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• ECDSA - Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
• EDR - endpoint detection and response
• EPC - End Point Control
• EPP - endpoint protection
• EPS - events per second
• ESP - Encapsulating Security Payload
• ESRM - Enterprise security risk management
• ET - emerging threats

Acronyms - F

F

• 2FA - Two-Factor Authentication
• FAM - file activity monitor
• FDE - full disk encryption
• FWaaS - Firewall-as-a-service