Cybersecurity Terms
Acronyms - 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
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Acronyms - Q
- QSA - Qualified Security Assessor
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Acronyms - 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
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