Here’s an extended list of 100 acronyms used within CompTIA Security+ along with their full forms:
(You’ll want to be remember where these are located as your traverse the course to provide a reference when needed)
1. AAA – Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
2. ACL – Access Control List
3. AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
4. AH – Authentication Header
5. API – Application Programming Interface
6. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
7. BCP – Business Continuity Plan
8. BIOS – Basic Input/Output System
9. BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
10. CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
11. CER – Certificate
12. CIA – Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
13. CRL – Certificate Revocation List
14. CSRF – Cross-Site Request Forgery
15. DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
16. DMZ – Demilitarized Zone
17. DNS – Domain Name System
18. DoS – Denial of Service
19. DLP – Data Loss Prevention
20. DRP – Disaster Recovery Plan
21. EAP – Extensible Authentication Protocol
22. EMI – Electromagnetic Interference
23. ESP – Encapsulating Security Payload
24. FDE – Full Disk Encryption
25. FTP – File Transfer Protocol
26. GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
27. GPO – Group Policy Object
28. HIDS – Host-based Intrusion Detection System
29. HMAC – Hash-based Message Authentication Code
30. HSM – Hardware Security Module
31. HTML – Hypertext Markup Language
32. HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
33. ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol
34. IDS – Intrusion Detection System
35. IPS – Intrusion Prevention System
36. IRP – Incident Response Plan
37. LAN – Local Area Network
38. LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
39. MAC – Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control
40. MDM – Mobile Device Management
41. NAC – Network Access Control
42. NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
43. OTP – One-Time Password
44. PaaS – Platform as a Service
45. PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
46. RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks
47. RADIUS – Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
48. RBAC – Role-Based Access Control
49. SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language
50. SED – Self-Encrypting Drive
51. SHA – Secure Hash Algorithm
52. SIEM – Security Information and Event Management
53. SIM – Subscriber Identity Module
54. SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
55. SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol
56. SOC – Security Operations Center
57. SPN – Service Principal Name
58. SQL – Structured Query Language
59. SSL – Secure Sockets Layer
60. SSH – Secure Shell
61. SSO – Single Sign-On
62. SSL/TLS – Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security
63. TACACS – Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System
64. TCP – Transmission Control Protocol
65. TOTP – Time-based One-Time Password
66. TPM – Trusted Platform Module
67. UDP – User Datagram Protocol
68. USB – Universal Serial Bus
69. VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
70. VM – Virtual Machine
71. VPN – Virtual Private Network
72. VTP – VLAN Trunking Protocol
73. WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy
74. WPA – Wi-Fi Protected Access
75. XSS – Cross-Site Scripting
76. WAF – Web Application Firewall
77. IDS/IPS – Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System
78. PKI – Public Key Infrastructure
79. RPO – Recovery Point Objective
80. RTO – Recovery Time Objective
81. EFS – Encrypting File System
82. PBKDF2 – Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
83. AES256 – Advanced Encryption Standard with a 256-bit key
84. CISO – Chief Information Security Officer
85. COOP – Continuity of Operations
86. CP – Contingency Planning
87. CRL – Certificate Revocation List
88. DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service
89. DNSSEC – Domain Name System Security Extensions
90. FISMA – Federal Information Security Management Act
91. Honeypot – A decoy system or network set up to attract attackers
92. IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
93. IDS – Intrusion Detection System
94. IPsec – Internet Protocol Security
95. ISO – International Organization for Standardization
96. MTTR – Mean Time to Recover
97. NIDS – Network-based Intrusion Detection System
98. NIPS – Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
99. PII – Personally Identifiable Information
100. SSO – Single Sign-On
