Cybersecurity Terms
Acronyms - 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
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Acronyms - 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
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Acronyms - U
- UPT - unsophisticated persistent threat
- UT - unsophisticated threats
- UTM - unified threat management