Cybersecurity Terms

Acronyms - P

P

• PAM - privileged access management
• PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
• PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
• PDoS - Permanent Denial-of-Service
• PEAP - Protective Extensible Authentication Protocol
• PIDAS - Perimeter Intrusion Detection and Assessment System
• PIV - Personal Identity Verification card
• PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standards
• PKI - public key infrastructure
• PMI - Privilege Management Infrastructure
• POODLE - Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption attack
• PRADS - Passive Real-Time Asset Detection System
• PsychoDoS - Psychological Manipulation Denial of Service
• PtaaS - Pentest-as-a-Service
• PVI - Passive Vulnerability Identification

Acronyms - Q

Q

• QSA - Qualified Security Assessor

Acronyms - R

R

• RA - risk assessment
• RaaS - Ransomware-as-a-Service
• RAC (RBAC) - Rule-Based Access Control
• RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
• RASP - Runtime Application Self-Protection
• RASQ - Relative Attack Surface Quotient
• RAT - Remote Access Tools
• RAT - Remote Access Trojan
• RBAC - Role-Based Access Control
• RBAC (RAC) - Rule-Based Access Control
• RBL - Real-Time Blacklist Lookups
• RDoS - Ransom Denial-of-Service
• ROC - Receiver Operating Characteristic