Cybersecurity Terms
Acronyms - A
- AAA - authentication, authorization and accounting
- ABAC - Attribute Based Access Control
- AC - Access Control
- ACL - access control list
- AES - Advanced Encryption Standard
- AH - Authentication Header
- AI - actionable intelligence
- AI - artificial intelligence
- AIC Triad - availability, integrity, confidentiality
- AIK - Attestation Identity Key
- AMP - Advanced Malware Protection
- APT - advanced persistent threat
- AS - attack surface
- AS - authentication server
- ASM - attack surface management
- AT - advanced threat
- ATLA -active threat, lone actor
- ATP - Advanced Threat Protection
- AV - antivirus software
- AV - armored virus
A
Acronyms - B
- BC - Business Continuity
- bot - short term for "robot"
- botnet - robotically-controlled network
- BR - Base Rate
- BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
B
Acronyms - C
- CA - certificate authority
- CAaaS - Cyber-Attack-as-a-Service
- CAASM - Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management
- CAC - common access card
- CASB - cloud access security broker
- CBC - Cipher Block Chaining
- CBC-MAC - Cipher Block Chaining - Message Authentication Code
- CCE - Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering
- CCFW - Carrier Class Firewall
- CCM - Cloud Controls Matrix
- CCM (CBC-MAC) - Cipher Block Chaining - Message Authentication Code
- CCNFW - Carrier-Class Network Firewall
- CCTV - Closed-Circuit Television system
- CDS - Cyber Deception Services
- CDS - Cyber Deception System
- CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team li
- CFB - Cipher Feedback Mode
- CHAP - Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
- CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- CIE - Cyber-Informed Engineering
- CII - Critical Information Infrastructure
- CIRT - Computer Incident Response Team
- CMAC - Cipher-Based Message Authentication Code
- CNA - Computer Network Attack
- CND - Computer Network Defense
- CNE - Computer Network Exploitation
- COA - Ciphertext-only Attack
- CSIRT - Computer Security Incident Response Team
- CSS or (XSS) - Cross-site Scripting