Cybersecurity terminology · MLC-0102

Cybersecurity acronyms: N (181)

Table 1. Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym	Expansion
N/A	Not Applicable
NaaS	network as a service
NAC	Network Access Control; National Agency Check
NACAM	National COMSEC Advisory Memorandum
NACI	National Agency Check with Written Inquiries; National Agency Check and Inquiries, National Agency Check with Inquiries
NACSI	National COMSEC Instruction
NACSIM	National COMSEC Information Memorandum
NAE	Nonce-based AE
NAESB	North American Energy Standards Board
NAK	Negative Acknowledgement
NAM	National Association of Manufacturers
NANOG	North American Network Operators Group
NANU	Notice Advisory to NAVSTAR Users
NAP	Network Access Protection
NAPT	Network Address and Port Translation; Network Address Port Translation
NARA	National Archives and Records Administration
NAS	Non-Access Stratum; Network Access Server, Network Attached Storage, Network-attached Storage
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASIC	National Air and Space Intelligence Center
NAT	Network Address Translator; Network Address Translation
National Security Council’s Cyber Interagency Policy Committee	NSC’s Cyber IPC
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVCEN	U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center
NAVSEA	Naval Sea Systems Command
NAWC	National Association of Water Companies
NC	Non-component; Nonce
NCAS	National Cyber Awareness System
NCBC	National Centers for Biomedical Computing
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCC	National Coordinating Center for Communications
NCC FSWG	NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group
NCCIC	National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center; National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center
NCCoE	National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
NCCP	NIST Cloud Computing Program
NCEP	National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership
NCES	NetCentric Enterprise Services
NCF	network configuration feature
NCHC	National Criminal History Check
NCIC	National Crime Information Center
NCIRS	National COMSEC Incident Reporting System
NCP	National Checklist Program
NCSA	National Cyber Security Alliance
NCSPA	National and Commercial Space Programs Act
ND	Neighbor Discovery
NDA	non-disclosure agreement
NDAC	Next-generation Database Access Control; non-discretionary access control
NDI	Non-Developmental Items
NDIA	National Defense Industrial Association
NDMP	Network Data Management Protocol
NDS/IP	Network Domain Security / Internet Protocol
NEA	Network Endpoint Assessment; Nuclear Energy Agency
NECST	New features, Efficiency, Compatibility, Security and Technical reason
NEF	National Essential Functions
nei	Nuclear Energy Institute
NEMA	National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NERC	North American Electric Reliability Corporation; North American Electric Reliability Council
NERC CIP	North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection
NESAG	Network Equipment Security Assurance Group
NESCOR	National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Resource
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NetBEUI	NetBIOS Extended User Interface
NetBIOS	Network Basic Input/Output System
NETCONF	Network Configuration Protocol
NFAT	Network Forensic Analysis Tool
NFC	Normalization Form Canonical Composition; National Finance Center, Near Field Communication, Near Field Communications, Near-Field Communication
NFO	nonfederal organization
NFPA	National Fire Protection Association
NFS	Network File System; Network File Share, Network File Sharing
NFSR	Non-linear Feedback Shift Register
NFT	non-fungible token; Nonfungible Token
NFU	National Farmers Union
NFV	Network Function Virtualization; Network Functions Virtualization
NGA	National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGAC	Next Generation Access Control; Next-Generation Access Control
NGAC-FA	Next Generation Access Control Functional Architecture
NGAC-GOADS	Next Generation Access Control Generic Operations and Abstract Data Structures; Next Generation Access Control - Generic Operations & Abstract Data Structures
NGAC-IRPADS	Next Generation Access Control-Implementation Requirements, Protocols and API Definitions
NGFW	Next Generation Firewall
NGS	National Geodetic Survey; Next-Generation Sequencing
NH	Next Hop
NHTSA	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NIAC	National Infrastructure Advisory Council
NIAP	National Information Assurance Partnership
NIC	Network Interface Controller/Card; Network Interface Card, Network Interface Controller
NICE	National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education
NID	National Interest Determination
NIDS	Network Intrusion Detection System
NIEF	National Identity Exchange Federation
NIH	National Institutes of Health
NII	national information infrastructure
NIJ	National Institute of Justice
NIMS	National Incident Management System
NIPP	National Infrastructure Protection Plan
NIS	Network Information System
NISPOM	National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group	NCC FSWG
NIST Interagency or Internal Report	NIST IR
NIST IR	NIST Internal Report; Internal Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency; Internal Reports, National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency/Internal Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology Internal Report, NIST Interagency; Internal Report, NIST Interagency Report, NIST Internal / Interagency Report
NIST SP	NIST Special Publication
NISTIR	NIST Interagency; Internal Report
NITAAC	National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center
NITRD	Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
NLECTC-NE	National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center-North East
NLP	natural language policy
NLRI	Network Layer Routing Information (synonymous with prefix)
NLZ	no-lone zone
NNAS	Nok Nok Authentication Server
NNM	Nessus Network Monitor
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NoC	Network-on-Chip
NOFORN	Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection	NERC CIP
NoSQL	not only SQL. Also known as non-SQL
NoT	Network of Things
NOTAM	Notice to Airmen; Notices to Air Missions
NPE	non-person entity
NPIVP	NIST Personal Identity Verification Program
NPPI	Non-Public Personal Information
NPS	Network Policy Server
NPSBN	National Public Safety Broadband Network; Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network
NPSTC	National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
NRBG	Non-deterministic Random Bit Generator
NRC	United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NREL	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
N/S	North/South
NS	Name Server
NSA	National Security Agency
NSA/CSS	National Security Agency/Central Security Service
NSAPI	Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
NSC	National Security Council
NSCI	National Strategic Computing Initiative
NSC’s Cyber IPC	National Security Council’s Cyber Interagency Policy Committee
NSD	National Security Directive
NSDD	National Security Decision Directive
NS/EP	National Security and Emergency Preparedness
NSF	National Science Foundation
NSI	national security information
NSP	Network Service Provider
NSPD	National Security Presidential Directive
NSRL	National Software Reference Library
NSS	national security system
NSTAC	President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
NSTC	National Semiconductor Technology Center
NSTISSAM	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Advisory/Information Memorandum
NSTISSC	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee
NSTISSD	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Directive
NSTISSI	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction; National Security Telecommunications and Information System Security Instruction
NSTISSP	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy
NSWC	Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSX-V	NSX for vSphere
NTCTF	NSA/CSS Technical Cyber Threat Framework
NTFS	Windows NT File System; New Technology File System, NT File System
NTI	New Technologies Inc.
NTIA	National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTISSAM	National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Advisory/Information Memorandum
NTISSD	National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Directive
NTISSI	National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction
NTISSP	National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy
NTL	Network Trust Link
NTLS	Network Trust Link Service
NTP	Network Time Protocol
NTP SEC	NTP Security Notice
NTP Security Notice	NTP SEC
NTPv4	Network Time Protocol Version 4
NTSB	National Transportation Safety Board
NTT	number theoretic transform
NTTAA	National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act
NUC	Next Unit of Computing
Nuclear Energy Institute	nei
NUMA	Non-Uniform Memory Access
NVD	National Vulnerability Database
NVDIMM	Non-Volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module
NVLAP	National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
NVM	Non-Volatile Memory
NVMe	Non Volatile Memory express
NVMe-oF	NVMe over Fibre
NVO3	Network Virtualization Overlay
NVRAM	Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory
NW	Non-Secure World; Normal World
NW3C	National White Collar Crime Center

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