The IT Acronyms and What They Stand For
Here are the IT Security acronyms that you will like to know what it stands for in technology world.
IT Security
A measure that help organizations to verify that their security controls are in compliance with the policy, process or procedure. It is about identifying security strengths and weakness and necessiate adjustment in the organization’s security posture.
1. ACL – Access Control List
2. AES – Advanced Encryption System
3. CBSP – Cloud-based Security Providers
4. CORS – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
5. CSP – Content Security Policy
6. CSRF – Cross-Site Request Forgery
7. DOS – Denial of Services
8. DDoS – Distributed Denial Of Services
9. DNSSEC – Domain Name System Security Extensions
10. DKIM – Domain Keys Identified Mail
11. DMARC – Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
12. FUD – Fully Undetectable
13. IPSec – Internet Protocol Security
14. IAM – Identity & Access Management
15. MITM – Man in the Middle Attack
16. SSE – Server Side Encryption
17. SSL – Secure Socket Layer
18. TLS – Transport Layer Security
19. XSS – Cross-site Scripting
20. SQLi – SQL Injection
21. MFA – Multi-Factor Authentication
22. WAF – Web Application Firewall
23. OWASP – Open Web Application Security Project
24. PCI – Payment Card Industry
25. LFI – Local File Inclusion
26. DT – Directory Traversal
27. PT – Path Traversal
28. SCD – Source Code Disclosure
29. OSCI – OS Command Injection
30. CWE – Common Weakness Enumeration
31. DSA – Digital Signature Algorithm
32. CVSS – Common Vulnerability Scoring System
33. SAST – Static Application Security Testing
34. DAST – Dynamic Application Security Testing
35. WAP – Web Application Protection
36. RFI – Remote File Inclusion
37. DES – Data Encryption Standard
38. RAT – Remote Administration Tool
39. SE – Social Engineering
40. SKid – Script Kiddie
41. SPF – Sender Policy Framework
42. STS – Security Token Service
43. DSS – Data Security Standard
44. SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language
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