42 - Cyber Security Acronyms
2 min readSep 16, 2022
Cyber Security Acronyms How Many Do You Know!!
- VPN → Virtual Private Network
- SIEM → Security information and event management
- XDR → Extended Detection and Response
- MDR → Managed Detection and Response
- EDR → Endpoint Detection and Response
- SOAR → Security Orchestration, Automation and Response
- SOC → security operations center
- IAM → Identity and Access Management
- CIRT → computer incident response team
- Ti → Threat intelligence
- TA → Threat Actor
- IDS → Intrusion Detection System
- IPS → Intrusion Prevention System
- FIM → File Integrity Monitoring
- AV → Antivirus
- 2FA → two-factor authentication
- MFA → Multi-Factor Authentication
- WAF → web application firewall
- SSO → Single Sign On
- APT → advanced persistent threat
- Acl → access control list
- CVE → Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- CVSS → Common Vulnerability Scoring System
- DLP → Data Loss Prevention
- TTP → Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
- BCP → Business Continuity Planning
- DMZ → demilitarized zone
- DNS → Domain Name System
- IOC → Indicator of compromise
- OT → Operational technology
- TLS → Transport Layer Security
- SSL → Secure Socket Layer
- GDPR → General Data Protection Regulation
- Cobit → Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies
- Nist → National Institute of Standards and Technology
- HIPAA → Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- ISO → International Organization for Standardization
- PCI-DSS → Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- MITM → Man-in-the-middle attack
- RAT → Remote access trojans
- DoS → Denial-of-Service
- DDoS → distributed denial-of-service
