Cybersecurity terminology · MLC-0102
Cybersecurity acronyms: A (197)
| Acronym | Expansion |
|---|---|
| A | Address |
| A3 | Association for Advancing Automation |
| A&A | Assessment and Authorization |
| AA | Attribute Authority |
| AAA | Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting |
| AAAK | Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Key |
| AAD | Additional Authenticated Data; Additional Authentication Data |
| AAL | application allowlisting; authentication assurance level; Authenticator Assurance Level |
| AAMI | Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation |
| AAMVA | American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators |
| AAP | Attribute Administration Point |
| AAR | After Action Report |
| AAS | Adaptable Antenna Support; Authentication and Authorization Service |
| AASC | Attribute and Authorization Services Committee |
| ABAC | Access Control Policy; Attribute Based Access Control; Attribute-Based Access Control |
| ABE | attribute-based encryption |
| ABI | Application Binary Interface |
| AC | Alternating Current; access control |
| AC RAM | Authenticated Code Random Access Memory |
| ACA | Attestation Certificate Authority |
| ACC | Administration Control Center; American Chemistry Council |
| accreditation | authorization to operate |
| ACD | ITL Applied Cybersecurity Division; Active Cyber Defense, Applied Cybersecurity Division, Automatic Call Distribution |
| ACE | Access Control Entry; Arbitrary Code Execution |
| ACI | Aviation Cyber Initiative |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| ACL | access control list; Asynchronous Connection-Less |
| ACM | access control mechanism; Authenticated Code Module; Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACME | Automated Certificate Management Environment |
| ACO | Authenticated Cipher Offset; Authenticated Ciphering Offset |
| ACP | Access Control Policy |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ACPT | Access Control Policy Tool |
| ACR | Access Control Rule |
| ACRLCS | Access Control Rule Logic Circuit Simulation |
| ACT | Automated Combinatorial Testing |
| Active Directory Federation Services | AD FS |
| Actor | threat actor |
| ACTS | Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software |
| ACVP | Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol |
| ACVTS | Automated Cryptographic Validation Test System |
| AD | Active Directory; Associated Data; Authenticated Data |
| AD DS | Active Directory Domain Services |
| AD FS | Active Directory Federation Services |
| ADAL | Active Directory Authentication Library |
| ADC | application delivery controller |
| ADCS | Active Directory Certificate Services |
| AD/DNS | Active Directory/Domain Name System |
| ADDS | Active Directory Domain Services |
| ADFR | Active Directory Forest Recovery |
| ADFS | Active Directory Federation Services |
| ADFSL | Annual Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law |
| ADK | Assessment and Deployment Kit |
| ADP | Authorized Data Publisher; Automatic Data Processing |
| ADS | Active Directory Services; Alternate Data Stream |
| AE | Authenticated Encryption |
| AE Title | Application Entity Title |
| AEAD | authenticated encryption with associated data |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard (algorithm) |
| AESAVS | Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm Validation Suite |
| AES-CBC | Advanced Encryption Standard-Cipher Block Chaining; AES-Cipher Block Chaining |
| AES-CCM | Advanced Encryption Standard-Counter with CBC-MAC |
| AES-CMAC | Advanced Encryption Standard-Cipher-based Message Authentication Code |
| AES-CTR | Advanced Encryption Standard-Counter Mode; AES-Counter Mode |
| AES-GCM | Advanced Encryption Standard-Galois Counter Mode |
| AES-GMAC | Advanced Encryption Standard-Galois Message Authentication Code |
| AES-NI | AES New Instructions |
| AES-XCBC | Advanced Encryption Standard-eXtended Cipher Block Chaining |
| AF | Alternate Facility; Asset Framework |
| AFPM | American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers |
| AFR | Agency Financial Report |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| AFW | Android for Work |
| AGA | American Gas Association |
| agency | executive agency; federal agency |
| AH | Authentication Header |
| AHA | American Hospital Association |
| AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| AI | artificial intelligence; Asset Identification |
| AIA | Authority Information Access |
| AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| AIC | Architecture and Infrastructure Committee; Attestation Identity Credential |
| AID | Application Identifier |
| AIDC | Automatic Identification and Data Capture |
| AIK | Attestation Identity Key |
| AIM | Algorithms for Intrusion Measurement; Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility |
| AI/ML | artificial intelligence and machine learning |
| AIS | Automated Indicator Sharing |
| AISS | Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon |
| AIT | Automatic Identification Technology |
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| AKA | Also Known As; Authentication and Key Agreement |
| AKM | Authentication and Key Management |
| AKP | advanced key processor |
| ALC | accounting legend code |
| ALE | Annualized Loss Expectancy |
| ALG | Application Level Gateway; Application Layer Gateways |
| ALM/PLM | Application Life cycle Management / Product Lifecycle Management |
| AMA | American Medical Association |
| AMD Platform Secure Boot | AMD PSB |
| AMD PSB | AMD Platform Secure Boot |
| AMI TruE | AMI Trusted Environment |
| AMI Trusted Environment | AMI TruE |
| AML | Adversarial Machine Learning |
| AMM | automated market maker |
| AMP | Advanced Malware Protection; Alternate MAC/PHY |
| AMWA | Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies |
| ANC | Adaptive Network Control |
| AN-ITL | ANSI/NIST-ITL |
| ANonce | Authenticator number once |
| ANS | American National Standard |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute; American National Standard Institute |
| ANSI/INCITS | American National Standards Institute/International Committee for Information Technology Standards |
| ANSI/NIST-ITL | AN-ITL |
| ANTD | ITL Advanced Network Technologies Division; Advanced Network Technologies Division, Advanced Network Technology Division |
| AO | Authorizing Official |
| AODR | Authorizing Official Designated Representative |
| AP | Access Point; assured pipeline |
| APCO | Association of Public Safety Communications Officials |
| APCP | American Hospital Association Preferred Cybersecurity Provider |
| APDU | Application Protocol Data Unit |
| APEC | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| API | American Petroleum Institute; Application Interface; Application Program Interface; application programming interface; Applications Programming Interface |
| APN | Access Point Name; Apple Push Notification |
| APNIC | Asia Pacific Network Information Centre; Asia-Pacific Network Information Center; Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre |
| APNS | Apple Push Notification System |
| App ID | Application Identification |
| APPA | American Public Power Association |
| AppAuth | Application Authentication System |
| Application Authentication System | AppAuth |
| Application Entity Title | AE Title |
| Application Identification | App ID |
| APS | Attribute Practice Statement |
| APT | advanced persistent threat; Application Property Template |
| APU | Auxiliary Power Unit |
| AQL | Ariel Query Language |
| AR | augmented reality |
| architecture | security architecture |
| Archive | Archive facility |
| ARF | asset reporting format |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machines; Access Rights Management, Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) Machine |
| ARMP | Average Record Matching Probability |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol; application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Project Agency |
| ARX | Addition-Rotation-XOR |
| AS | Access Strum; Attestation Service; Authentication Server; Authorization Server; Autonomous System |
| ASA | Adaptive Security Appliance |
| ASARP | As Secure As Reasonably Practicable |
| ASC | The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Committee; Accredited Standards Committee, The Accredited Standards Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange; American Standard Code of Information Interchange |
| ASDSO | Association of State Dam Safety Officials |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit; Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASID | Address Space IDentifier |
| ASKDF | Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions |
| ASLR | Address Space Layout Randomization |
| ASM | Alaris System Maintenance; Authenticator-Specific Module |
| ASMS | Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference |
| ASN | Autonomous System Number |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
| ASP | Active Server Pages; AMD Security Processor |
| assessment | privacy control assessment; security control assessment |
| Assessor | Privacy Control Assessor |
| Association for Advancing Automation | A3 |
| AST | application security testing; Office of Commercial Space Transportation |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| AS&W | attack sensing and warning |
| AT | Anti-tampering; Awareness and Training |
| ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment |
| ATARC | Advanced Technology Academic Research Center |
| ATC | Approval to Connect |
| ATIM | Announcement Traffic Indication Message |
| ATIS | Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATO | Air Traffic Organization; approval to operate; Authority to Operate; Authorization to Operate |
| ATP | Advanced Threat Protection |
| ATP:N | Advanced Threat Protection: Network |
| ATR | Answer to Reset |
| ATT | Attribute Protocol |
| attack | Cyber Attack |
| ATT&CK | Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge; Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge |
| AU | Audit and Accountability |
| AUC | area under the curve; Authentication Center |
| Auditor | Audit administrator |
| AUFS | Advanced Multi-Layered Unification Filesystem |
| Authenticated Code Random Access Memory | AC RAM |
| Authenticator number once | ANonce |
| Authorization | Security Authorization |
| AUTN | Authentication Token |
| AUTO-ISAC | Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center |
| automated security monitoring | information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) |
| AV | Antivirus; Anti-Virus |
| AVP | Attribute-Value Pair |
| AWARE | Agency-Wide Adaptive Risk Enumeration |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| AWWA | American Water Works Association |
| AXFR | DNS Full Zone Transfer Query Type |
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