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Cybersecurity Acronyms

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AES

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Advanced Encryption Standard - a symmetric encryption algorithm widely used across the globe to secure data.

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VPN

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Virtual Private Network - a service that encrypts your internet traffic and protects your online identity.

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WAF

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Web Application Firewall - a security system that monitors and controls network traffic to and from a web application.

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DDoS

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Distributed Denial of Service - an attack that aims to overwhelm a website or service with traffic from multiple sources, rendering it unavailable.

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TLS

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Transport Layer Security - a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.

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SOC

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Security Operations Center - a centralized unit that deals with security issues on an organizational and technical level.

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SIEM

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Security Information and Event Management - a solution that aggregates and analyzes activity from many different resources across your IT infrastructure.

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PCI DSS

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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that accept, process, store, or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.

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IDS

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Intrusion Detection System - a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.

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IPS

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Intrusion Prevention System - a network security/threat prevention technology that examines network traffic flows to detect and prevent vulnerability exploits.

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IAM

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Identity and Access Management - a framework for business processes that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities.

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GDPR

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General Data Protection Regulation - a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the European Union and the European Economic Area.

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PKI

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Public Key Infrastructure - a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption.

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PaaS

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Platform as a Service - a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.

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SDN

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Software-Defined Networking - an approach to networking that uses software-based controllers or application programming interfaces (APIs) to direct traffic on the network and communicate with the underlying hardware infrastructure.

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APT

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Advanced Persistent Threat - a stealthy threat actor, typically a nation state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period.

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NIST

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National Institute of Standards and Technology - a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce that promotes and maintains measurement standards.

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ISO

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International Organization for Standardization - an independent, non-governmental international organization that develops voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards.

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CSP

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Cloud Service Provider - a company that offers some component of cloud computing — typically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) — to other businesses or individuals.

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SASE

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Secure Access Service Edge - a cloud-based security model that integrates different security services together to support the dynamic secure access needs of organizations.

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