Cybersecurity Terms

Acronyms - S

S

• SA - security analysis (security assessment)
• SASE - secure access service edge
• SAST - Static Application Security Testing
• SCA - Security Control Assessment
• SCP - Secure Copy Protocol
• SD - Secure Digital card
• SDP - Software Defined Perimeter
• SecaaS - Security-as-a-Service
• SecDevOps - Security Development Operations
• SEIM - Security Event and Information Monitoring
• SEM - security event management
• SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol
• SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm
• SID - security identifier
• SIEM - Security Information and Event Management
• SIIR - Security Incident Investigation and Response Service
• SIM - Security Information Management
• SIRT - Security Incident Response Team
• SISO - Senior Information Security Officer
• SKA - shared key authentication
• SLMS - security log management service
• SMA - Secure Mobile Access
• SMI - Security Management Interfaces
• SND - Secure Network Detection
• SOAR - Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
• SOC - Security Operations Center
• SOCaaS - security operations center-as-a-service
• SOP - Same Origin Policy
• SPF - Sender Policy Framework
• SPI - Security Parameter Index
• SPI - Stateful Packet Inspection firewall
• SPP - Security and Privacy Profile
• SPTs - Smart Persistent Threats
• SSDLC - Secure Software Development Lifecycle
• SSE - security services edge
• SSE - Security Services Engineering
• SSE - Server Side Encryption
• SSH - Secure Shell
• SSID - Service Set Identifier
• SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
• SSL MitM - Secure Sockets Layer Man-in-the-Middle attack
• SSL VPN - Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network
• SSM - Security Services Management
• SSMTP - Secure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SSO - Security Services Operations
• SSO - Single Sign-On
• SSP - System Security Plan
• STs - Smart Threats
• STIG - Security Technical Implementation Guide
• STM - security threat management
• STRIDE - Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information, Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privileges

Acronyms - T

T

• TACACS+ - Terminal Access Controller Access - Control System Plus
• TAXII - Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence Information
• TCB - trusted computing base
• TDE - Transparent Database Encryption
• TDIR - Threat Detection, Investigation and Response
• TDoS - Telephony Denial-of-Service attack
• TFA - Two-Factor Authentication
• TGS - Ticket-Granting Server
• TGT - Ticket-Granting Ticket
• TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
• TLS - Transport Layer Security
• TOC - threat operations center
• TOCTOU - time of check, time of use
• Tor - The Onion Router
• TOTP - time-based one-time password
• TPM - Trusted Platform Module

Acronyms - U

U

• UPT - unsophisticated persistent threat
• UT - unsophisticated threats
• UTM - unified threat management