Cybersecurity terminology · MLC-0102
Cybersecurity acronyms: P (209)
| Acronym | Expansion |
|---|---|
| P25 | Project 25 |
| P2P | Peer-to-Peer; Point-to-Point |
| PA | Policy Administrator; Palo Alto Networks, Personal Authorization |
| PAA | principal accrediting authority |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PAC | Proxy Auto Config; Physical Access Control, Pointer Authentication Code, Privilege Attribute Certificate, Process Access Control, Protected Access Credential |
| PACCOR | Platform Attribute Certificate Creator |
| Packet Capture Next Generation Dump File Format | PcapNg |
| Packet Number | Pn |
| PACS | Physical Access Control Systems; Picture Archiving and Communication System(s) |
| PAD | Presentation Attack Detection; Peer Authorization Database |
| PAKE | password authenticated key exchange |
| Palm data dump/duplicate disk | pdd |
| PAM | Privileged Access Management |
| PAN | Personal Area Network; Privileged Access Never |
| PANW | Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall |
| PAO | principal authorizing official |
| PAOS | Reverse SOAP |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol; policy administration point |
| Parsec | Platform AbstRaction for SECurity |
| PAS | Physical Address Space |
| password | memorized secret |
| PAT | Port Address Translation |
| PBAC | policy based access control |
| PBKDF2 | Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 |
| PBX | Private Branch Exchange |
| PC | Personal Computer; Project Committee |
| PCAP | Packet Capture |
| PcapNg | Packet Capture Next Generation Dump File Format |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PCC | payload control center |
| PCH | Platform Controller Hub |
| PCI | PIV Card Issuer; Payment Card Industry, Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCI DSS | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard |
| PCIe | President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency; PCI express, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| PCL | Product Compliant List |
| PCM | privilege certificate manager; Positive Control Material, Privacy Continuous Monitoring |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCR | Platform Configuration Register |
| PCRF | Policy and Charging Rules Function |
| PCS | Process Control System |
| PC/SC | Personal Computer / Smart Card; Personal Computer/Smart Card |
| PCU | Patient Care Unit |
| PCVT | Platform Certificate Verification Tool |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDCP | Packet Data Convergence Protocol |
| pdd | Palm data dump/duplicate disk |
| Portable Document Format; Portable Data File, Portable Document File | |
| PDN | Packet Data Network |
| PDP | policy decision point |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PDS | protected distribution system; Position Designation System |
| PE | Processor Element; Physical and Environmental, Physical and Environmental Protection, Policy Engine |
| PEAP | Protected EAP; Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol |
| PEC | Privacy Enhancing Cryptography; privacy-enhancing cryptography |
| PED | Personal Information Number Entry Device; PIN Entry Device; Portable Electronic Device |
| PEF | Protected Execution Facility |
| PEI | Pre-EFI Initialization |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| PEP | Privacy Engineering Program; policy enforcement point |
| PERA | Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture |
| PES | IEEE Power & Energy Society |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography; privacy-enhancing technology |
| PETE | Potential Efforts on Threat Events |
| PFF | Palm File Format |
| PFR | Platform Firmware Resilience |
| PFS | Perfect Forward Secrecy; parallel file system |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PGP/OpenPGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| P-GW | Packet Gateway |
| PHA | Potentially Harmful Application; Process Hazard Analysis |
| PHI | Personal Health Information; protected health information |
| phishing | Verifier Impersonation |
| PHM4SM | Prognostics and Health Management for Reliable Operations in Smart Manufacturing |
| PHMSA | Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration |
| PHP | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PHR | Personal Health Records |
| PHY | Physical Access; Physical Layer |
| PI | personal identifier; Pandemic Influenza; Process Information; Person Identifier, a field in the FASC-N |
| PIA | Privacy Impact Assessments |
| PiB | pebibyte |
| PIC | Performance Improvement Council |
| PID | Proportional-Integral-Derivative; Process ID, Proportional Integral Derivative |
| PII | personally identifiable information |
| PIM | Personal Information Management |
| PIN | personal identification number; Personnel Identification Number |
| PIP | Published Internet Protocol; policy information point |
| PIRT | Purposeful Interference Response Team |
| PIT | Platform Information Technology; Protection in Transit |
| PITM | Person in the Middle |
| PIV | personal identity verification; Personal Identification Verification |
| PIV-I | Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable; Personal Identity Verification Interoperable |
| PIX | Proprietary Identifier Extension |
| PK | Platform Key |
| PKC | Public Key Cryptography |
| PKCE | Proof Key for Code Exchange |
| PKCS | Public-Key Cryptography Standards; Public Key Certificate Standard, Public Key Cryptography Standard, Public Key Cryptography Standards |
| PKCS1 | Public Key Cryptography Standard 1 |
| PKE | public key enabling; public-key encryption |
| PKI | Private Key Infrastructure; public key infrastructure; Public-Key Infrastructure |
| PKIX | Public Key Infrastructure for X.509 Certificates; Public Key Infrastructure X.509 |
| PKIX-CMP | Public Key Infrastructure X.509 - Certificate Management Protocol |
| P.L. | Public Law |
| PL | Planning; Public Law |
| Platform AbstRaction for SECurity | Parsec |
| PLC | Programmable Line Controller; Programmable Logic Controllers |
| PLIST | Property List |
| PM | Project Management; Policy Machine, Program Management |
| PM2 | Process Manager 2 |
| PMA | President’s Management Agenda |
| PMCS | Platform Manifest Correlation System |
| PMEF | Primary Mission Essential Functions |
| PMF | Protected Management Frame(s) |
| PMI | Precision Medicine Initiative |
| PMK | Pairwise Main Key; Pairwise Master Key |
| PMKSA | Pairwise Master Key Security Association |
| PML | Physical Measurement Laboratory; Probable Maximum Loss |
| PMO | Program Management Office |
| PMRM | Privacy Management Reference Model and Methodology |
| PMS | Property Management Systems |
| PMTU | Path Maximum Transmission Unit |
| PMTUD | Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery |
| pNFS | Parallel NFS |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| pNIC | Physical Network Interface Card |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| PNT | positioning, navigation, and timing |
| PNT Profile | Foundational PNT Profile: Applying the Cybersecurity Framework for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services |
| POA&M | Plan of Action and Milestones4; Plan of Actions and Milestones1; Plan Of Action & Milestones3 |
| POC | Point of Contact |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| PoET | Proof of Elapsed Time |
| Point | pt |
| POP | Point of Presence; Post Office Protocol; Proof of Possession |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol 3; Post Office Protocol, Version 3 |
| PoS | Proof of Stake; Point of Sale, Point-of-Sale |
| POSE | Palm Operating System Emulator |
| POST | Power-on self-test |
| Post-Quantum Cryptography | PQCrypto |
| POU | Program Organizational Unit |
| PoW | Proof of Work |
| PP | protection profile |
| PPA | Personal Profile Application |
| PPC | Pocket PC |
| PPD | Presidential Policy Directive |
| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
| PPI | Pairwise Pseudonymous Identifier; Pixels Per Inch |
| PPK | Post-quantum Pre-shared Key |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol; Point to Point protocol |
| PPS | pulse per second; Physically Protected Space, Protocol and Parameters Selection |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol; Point to Point tunneling protocol |
| p,q rule | ambiguity rule |
| PQC | Post-Quantum Cryptography; Post Quantum Cryptography |
| PQCrypto | Post-Quantum Cryptography |
| PQ/T | Post-Quantum/Traditional |
| PR | protect (CSF function) |
| PRA | penetration-resistant architecture; Paperwork Reduction Act; Privacy Risk Assessment |
| PR.AC | Protect, Access Control |
| PRAM | Privacy Risk Assessment Methodology |
| PR.AT | Protect, Awareness and Training |
| PR.DS | Protect, Data Security |
| PredAI | predictive artificial intelligence |
| Prepare for Events | Capability, Event Preparation Management |
| PRF | Pseudorandom function; Pseudo-random Function |
| PRISMA | Program Review for Information Security Management Assistance |
| PRM | performance reference model |
| PRNG | pseudorandom number generator; Pseudo-Random Number Generator |
| Project 25 | P25 |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory; Programmable Read Only Memory |
| PROPIN | proprietary information |
| ProSe | Proximity Services |
| PRoT | Platform Root of Trust |
| Proximity Services | ProSe |
| proxy v&v | proxy validation and verification |
| Proxy-WASM | WebAssembly for Proxies |
| PRP | Pseudo-Random Permutation; Parallel Redundancy Protocol, Policy Retrieval Point |
| PR.PT | Protect, Protective Technology |
| PR/SM | Processor Resource/System Manager |
| PRSN | primary services node |
| PS | personnel security; Protected Storage; Physical Security |
| PSA | Platform Security Architecture |
| PSAC | Public Safety Advisory Committee |
| PSAP | Public Safety Access Point |
| PSC | Platform Services Controller |
| PSCCC | IEEE Power System Communications and Cybersecurity |
| PSCP | PuTTY Secure Copy Protocol |
| PSCR | Public Safety Communications Research Division |
| PSFR | Public Safety and First Responder |
| PSIRT | Product Security Incident Response Team |
| PSK | Pre-shared Key |
| PSN | product source node; Public Switched Network |
| PSO | Public Safety Organization |
| PSS | Probabilistic Signature Scheme; Process Safety Shutdown |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PSX | Public Safety Experience |
| pt | Point |
| PTK | Pairwise Transient Key |
| PTP | Precision Time Protocol |
| PTT | Push-To-Talk; Push to Talk |
| PUB | Publication |
| PUF | Public Use File |
| PUK | PIN Unblocking Key |
| PUMP | Patch and Update Management Program |
| PWA | Printed Wiring Assembly |
| PWWG | Privacy Workforce Public Working Group |
| PWWN | Port World-Wide Name |
| PXE | Pre-boot eXecution Environment; Preboot Execution Environment |
| PXN | Privileged Execute Never |
| PY | Prior Year |
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