Cybersecurity terminology · MLC-0102
Cybersecurity acronyms: C (354)
| Acronym | Expansion |
|---|---|
| C2 | Command and Control |
| C3 | Command, Control, and Communications Controller Area Network |
| C3I | Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence |
| C4 | Command, Control, Communications and Computers |
| C&A | Certification and Accreditation |
| CA | CA Technologies; Security Assessment and Authorization; Certificate Authority/Certificate Authorities; certification authority; Certification, Accreditation, and Security Assessments; Cryptanalysis; controlling authority (CONAUTH) |
| CAA | Certificate Authority Authorization |
| CaaS | Container-as-a-Service |
| CAC | common access card |
| CAD | Computer-aided Dispatch |
| CAE | National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity |
| CAESAR | Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness |
| CAESARS | Continuous Asset Evaluation, Situational Awareness, and Risk Scoring |
| CAG | Consensus Audit Guidelines |
| CAIS | critical AI system |
| CAK | Card Authentication Key |
| CALD | central audit and logging daemon |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CAP | Cross Agency Priority |
| Capability | Capability, Security |
| CAPCO | Controlled Access Program Coordination Office |
| CAPEC | Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification; Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification |
| CapEx | Capital Expenditures |
| CAPI | Cryptographic Application Programming Interface |
| Capital Expenditures | CapEx |
| CAPWAP | Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points |
| card reader | card interface device |
| CAS | Certification Authority System; Content Addressable Storage |
| CASB | cloud access security broker |
| CASSA | Cognitive-based Approach to System Security Assessment |
| C-ATO | continuous authority to operate |
| CAVP | Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program |
| CAVS | Cryptographic Algorithm Validation System |
| CAW | Certification Authority Workstation |
| CBA | Cost/Benefit Analysis |
| CBAC | Capability Bases Access Control |
| CBC | CipherBlock Chaining; Cipher Block Chaining, Cipher Block Chaining mode |
| CBC-MAC | Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code; Cipher Block Chaining - Message Authentication Code (CMAC), Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code |
| CBD | Centered Binomial Distribution |
| CBDC | Central Bank Digital Currency |
| CBEFF | Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework |
| CBOR | Concise Binary Object Representation |
| CBP | Customs and Border Patrol |
| CC | Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation |
| CCA | Chosen Ciphertext Attack; Confidential Compute Architecture |
| CCAm | CCA with nonce misuse-resilience |
| CCB | Change Control Board; Configuration Control Board |
| CCC | Card Capability Container |
| CCCS | Canadian Centre for Cyber Security |
| CCE | common configuration enumeration; Consequence-Driven Cyber-Informed Engineering |
| CCEB | Combined Communications-Electronics Board |
| CCEP | commercial COMSEC evaluation program |
| CCEVS | Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme |
| CCI | control correlation identifier; controlled cryptographic item |
| CCIPS | Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section |
| CCM | Counter with Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code; Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Message Authentication Code (MAC), Counter with CBC Message Authentication Code, Counter with CBC-MAC, Counter with Cipher Block Chaining Mode |
| CCMP | Counter-Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol; Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Message Authentication Code (MAC) Protocol, Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol, Counter Mode with CBC MAC Protocol; Cipher Block Chaining - Message Authentication Code (CMAC) |
| CCN | Credit Card Number |
| CCoA | Cyber Courses of Action |
| CCRB | Configuration Control Review Board |
| CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| CCSS | common configuration scoring system |
| CCTV | Closed Circuit Television |
| CD | Checking Disabled; Committee Draft; Compact Disc; Compact Disk; Cross Domain |
| CDC | Cybersecurity Defense Community |
| CDFS | CD File System |
| CDH | Cofactor Diffie-Hellman; Co-factor Diffie-Hellman |
| CDM | Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation; Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDN | Content Delivery Networks |
| CDP | Continuous Data Protection; CRL Distribution Point |
| CD-R | CD-Recordable; Compact Disc-Recordable |
| CDR | Call Detail Record |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk - Read-Only Memory; CD-Read Only Memory, Compact Disc Read Only Memory, Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CD-RW | CD-Rewritable |
| CDS | Card Design Standard; Cross-Domain Solutions; Cross Domain Solution |
| CE | cryptographic erase |
| CEA | Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 |
| CED-DA | Center for Enterprise Dissemination-Disclosure Avoidance |
| CEDS | Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems |
| CEF | Common Event Format |
| CeFi | centralized finance |
| CentOS | Community Enterprise Operating System |
| central facility | Tier 0 (central facility) (COMSEC) |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CEP | Certificate Enrollment Policy |
| CERG | Cryptographic Engineering Research Group |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Readiness Team; Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CERT/CC | CERT Coordination Center, CERT® Coordination Center, Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center |
| certificate | public key certificate |
| CERT®/CC | Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center |
| CES | Certificate Enrollment Service |
| CESER | Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response |
| CF | Compact Flash |
| CFATS | Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards |
| CFB | Cipher Feedback mode |
| CFC | NIST Cybersecurity Framework Core |
| C.F.D. | common fill device (CFD); Candidate for Deletion |
| CFD | common fill device |
| CFFB | Central Facility Finksburg |
| CFI | Computer and Financial Investigations |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| CFOC | Chief Financial Officers Council |
| C.F.R. | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CFRDC | Computer Forensics Research and Development Center |
| CFReDS | Computer Forensic Reference Data Sets; Computer Forensics Reference Data Sets |
| CFTT | Computer Forensic Tool Testing; Computer Forensics Tool Testing |
| CGE | Cisco Global Exploiter |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CGN | Carrier Grade NAT |
| cgroup | Control Group |
| CHAP | Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol; Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CHERI | Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions |
| CHIPS | Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors |
| CHUID | Card Holder Unique Identifier; Cardholder Unique Identifier |
| CHVP | Cryptographic High Value Products |
| CI | Ciphertext Integrity; Confidence interval; Configuration Item; Critical Infrastructure |
| CIA | Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability; confidentiality, integrity, availability; Cryptographic Information Application |
| CI/CD | continuous delivery/continuous deployment; continuous integration and continuous deployment |
| CIDAR | Cyber Incident Data and Analysis Repository |
| CIDR | Classless Interdomain Routing; Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CIE | Cyber-Informed Engineering |
| CIF | Control of Interaction Frequency |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIGRE | International Council on Large Electric Systems |
| CIK | Cryptographic Ignition Key |
| CIKR | Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources |
| CIM | Ciphertext Integrity with Misuse-resistance; Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIMA | COMSEC Incident Monitoring Activity |
| Cin-Day | Cyber Cincinnati-Dayton Cyber Corridor |
| CIO | chief information officer |
| CIP | Common Industrial Protocol; Critical Infrastructure Protection |
| CIPAC | Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council |
| CIPSEA | Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act |
| CIR | Consumer Infrared |
| CIRC | Cyber Incident Response Team; Computer Incident Response Capability, Computer Incident Response Center |
| CIRT | Cyber Incident Response Team; Computer Incident Response Team |
| CIS | The Center for Internet Security; Center for Internet Security, Critical Infrastructure System |
| CISA | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Center for Enterprise Dissemination-Disclosure Avoidance, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency |
| CISO | chief information security officer; Computer Information Security Officer |
| CISQ | Consortium for Information & Software Quality |
| Citect SCADA system | U1 |
| CJA | Crown Jewels Analysis |
| CJD | central journal daemon |
| CJI | criminal justice information |
| CJIS | Criminal Justice Information Services |
| CK | Confidentiality Key |
| CKG | cooperative key generation |
| CKL | compromised key list |
| CKMS | Crypto Key Management System; Cryptographic Key Management System |
| CKMS PS | Cryptographic Key Management System Practice Statement |
| CKMS SP | Cryptographic Key Management System Security Policy |
| CL | CableLabs |
| CLI | Command Line Interface; Command-Line Interface |
| CLO | Chief Learning Officer |
| CloudSPF | Cloud Security Policy Framework |
| CLR | Common Language Runtime |
| CLSI | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute |
| CM | Centimeter; Configuration Management |
| CMaaS | Continuous Monitoring as a Service |
| C-MAC | Command Message Authentication Code |
| CMAC | Block Cipher-based Message Authentication Code; Cipher-based MAC |
| CMC | Chassis Management Controller |
| CMCS | COMSEC material control system |
| CMDAUTH | Command Authority |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Database |
| CMI | cryptographic modernization initiative |
| CMIA | Cyber Mission Impact Analysis |
| CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integration |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMS | Cryptographic Message Syntax; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Certificate Management Service, Content Management System, Credential Management System |
| CMSL | Client Management Script Library |
| CMTC | Card Management System to Card; Card Management System to the Card |
| CMUF | Cryptographic Modules User Forum |
| CMVP | Cryptographic Module Validation Program |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (or blacK) |
| CN | client node; Common Name |
| CNA | CVE Numbering Authority; Computer Network Attack, CVE Naming Authorities, CVE Naming Authority |
| CNAP | Cybersecurity National Action Plan |
| CNC | Computer Numerical Control |
| CNCF | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| CND | computer network defense |
| CNE | computer network exploitation |
| CNG | Cryptographic API: Next Generation |
| CNI | Container Network Interface |
| CNIC | Cellular Network Isolation Card |
| CNN | convolutional neural networks |
| CNO | computer network operations |
| CNP | Card Not Present |
| CNSA | commercial national security algorithm |
| CNSS | Committee for National Security Systems; Committee on National Security Systems |
| CNSSAM | Committee on National Security Systems Advisory Memorandum |
| CNSSD | CNSS Directive; Committee on National Security Systems Directive |
| CNSSI | Committee on National Security Systems Instruction |
| CNSSP | Committee on National Security Systems Policy |
| CO | cyberspace operations |
| COA | Central Oversight Authority; Change of Authorization; Course of Action |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| COBIT | Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies; Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology |
| Codec | Coder-Decoder |
| COF | Ciphering Offset Number |
| COFB | Combined Feedback |
| COG | continuity of government |
| COI | community of interest; conflict of interest |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| Command, Control, and Communications | C3 |
| Command, Control, Communications and Computers | C4 |
| Comma-Separated Value | .csv |
| Component | information system component |
| COMPUSEC | Computer Security |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite |
| COMSEC | communications security |
| CONAUTH | controlling authority |
| concept of operations | security concept of operations (Security CONOP) |
| CONOP | concept of operations |
| contingency plan | disaster recovery plan (DRP) |
| Contingency Planning | Information System Contingency Plan (ISCP) |
| control | security control and privacy control |
| Control Group | cgroup |
| Control Item | Security Control Item |
| control parameter | organization-defined control parameter |
| Control Server | Master Terminal Unit (MTU) |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| COOP | continuity of operations plan |
| COP | Call Oriented Programming; Community of Practice |
| COPE | Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled; Corporately Owned, Personally Enabled |
| COPPA | Children‘s Online Privacy Protection Act |
| COR | Contracting Officer Representative; Central Office of Record (COMSEC) |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing |
| COSO | Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission |
| CoT | chain of trust |
| COTR | Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative; Contracting Officer's Technical Representative |
| COTS | commercial-off-the-shelf; Commercial off the Shelf Product; Commercial off-the-shelf |
| COUNTERMEASURES | security controls |
| COW | Cell on Wheels |
| CP | certificate policy; Contingency Planning; Configuration Payload |
| CPA | Chosen Plaintext Attack; Correlation Power Analysis |
| CP-ABE | ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption |
| CPACF | CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions |
| CPE | Customer Premise Equipment; Common Platform Enumeration, Common Platform Enumerations |
| CPIC | Capital Planning and Investment Control; Capital Planning Investment Control |
| CPLP | Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program |
| CPNI | Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure |
| CPO | Chief Privacy Officer |
| CPRT | Cybersecurity and Privacy Reference Tool |
| CPS | Certification Practice Statement; Certification Practices Statement; Cyber Physical Systems; Cyber-Physical Systems |
| CPSO | Chief Product Security Officer |
| CPSSP | Central Public Safety Service Provider |
| CPU | Central Processing Units |
| CR | capability requirement; Create, Read |
| CRADA | Collaborative Research and Development Agreement; Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
| CRAM | Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism |
| CRC | Collaborative Research Cycle; Contagion Research Center; Cyclic Redundancy Check; Cyclical Redundancy Check |
| CRD | Custom Resource Definition |
| CREDC | Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium |
| CRI | Container Runtime Interface |
| CRIME | Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy |
| CRISP | Cybersecurity Risk Information Sharing Program |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| CRISPR-Cas | CRISPR-Associated Protein |
| CRL | certificate revocation list; Certification Revocation List |
| CRO | Chief Risk Officer |
| CRPA | controlled reception patterned antenna |
| CRQC | Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer |
| CRR | Cyber Resilience Review |
| CRS | Cyber Resiliency and Survivability; Central Reservation System, Collaborative Robotic System |
| CRSRA | Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs |
| CRT | Chinese Remainder Theorem |
| CRTM | Core Root of Trust for Measurement |
| CRTV | Core Root of Trust for Verification |
| CRUD | Create, Read, Update, Delete |
| Cryptographic Key Management System Practice Statement | CKMS PS |
| Cryptographic Key Management System Security Policy | CKMS SP |
| C&S | Control and Status |
| CS | Ciphertext Stealing; Client/Server; cybersecurity |
| CS3STHLM | Stockholm International Summit on Cyber Security in SCADA and ICS |
| CSA | Certificate Status Authority; Canadian Standards Association; Cloud Security Alliance; Core Specification Addendum; Cyber Survivability Attributes |
| CSA5 | Core Specification Addendum 5 |
| CSAM | Cyber Security Assessment and Management |
| CSC | cloud service customer; Critical Security Control |
| C-SCRM | Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management; Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management |
| CSD | ITL Computer Security Division |
| CSE | Communications Security Establishment; Communication Security Establishment |
| CSET | Cyber Security Evaluation Tool |
| CSF | NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity; Cyber Security Framework, Cybersecurity Framework |
| CSFB | Circuit Switch Fallback |
| CSfC | commercial solutions for classified |
| CSI | Container Storage Interface |
| CSIA | Cybersecurity and Information Assurance |
| CSIM | CDMA Subscriber Identity Module |
| CSIP | Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan |
| CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Response Team |
| CSK | Code Signing Key |
| CSM | Configuration Settings Management |
| CSMS | Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing Systems |
| CSN | central services node; Central Service Node |
| CSO | computer security object; Chief Security Officer, CJIS Systems Officer |
| CSP | credential service provider; Cloud Service Provider; Credentials Service Provider; Critical Security Parameter |
| CSR | Certificate Signing Request |
| CSRC | Cloud Security Rubik’s Cube; Computer Security Resource Center |
| CSRDA | Cyber Security Research and Development Act of 2002 |
| CSRF | Cross-site Request Forgery |
| CSRIC | Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council |
| CSRK | Connection Signature Resolving Key |
| CSRM | Cybersecurity Risk Management |
| CSRR | Cybersecurity Risk Register |
| CSS | certificate status server; Cascaded Style Sheet, Central Security Service |
| CSSPAB | Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board |
| CST | Cryptographic and Security Testing |
| CSTL | Cryptographic and Security Testing Laboratory |
| .csv | Comma-Separated Value |
| CSV | Comma-Separated Values |
| CT | Certificate Transparency; Computed Tomography |
| CT1 | Common Tier 1 |
| CTA | Consumer Technology Association |
| CTAK | cipher text auto-key |
| CTAP | Client-to-Authenticator Protocol |
| CTC | Cardholder to Card |
| CTD | Continuous Threat Detection |
| CT&E | certification test and evaluation |
| CTE | Cardholder to External System; Career and Technical Education |
| CTG | Cryptographic Technology Group |
| CTI | Cyber Threat Intelligence |
| CTIA | Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association |
| CTL | computation tree logic |
| CTM | Conformance Testing Methodology |
| CTO | Chief Technology Officer |
| CTR | Counter mode for a block cipher algorithm; Counter, Counter Mode |
| CTS | computerized telephone system |
| CTSO | Career and Technical Student Organization |
| CTTA | certified TEMPEST technical authority |
| CU | Certificate Usage Type |
| CUAS | common user application software |
| CUI | controlled unclassified information; Controlled, Unclassified information |
| CVC | Card Verifiable Certificate |
| CVE | common vulnerabilities and exposures; Common Vulnerability Enumeration; Common Vulnerability and Exposures |
| CVE ID | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifiers |
| CVP | Cryptographic Validation Program |
| CVSS | common vulnerability scoring system |
| CVSS-SIG | CVSS Special Interest Group |
| CWE | common weakness enumeration |
| CWI | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica |
| CWSS | Common Weakness Scoring System |
| CXOF | Customized eXtendable-Output Function |
| CY | Current Year |
| Cyber Cincinnati-Dayton Cyber Corridor | Cin-Day |
| Cybersecurity Virtual Machine | CybersecVM |
| CybersecVM | Cybersecurity Virtual Machine |
| CybOX | Cyber Observable eXpression |
| CYOD | Choose Your Own Device |
| CyOTE | Cybersecurity for the Operational Technology Environment |
| CyTRICS | Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control Systems |
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