Appsec
46 acronyms in this category, in plain English.
- API Application Programming Interface
- ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization
- ASVS Application Security Verification Standard
- BSIMM Building Security In Maturity Model
- CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
- CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
- CI/CD Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
- CNA CVE Numbering Authority
- CORS Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- CSAF Common Security Advisory Framework
- CSP Content Security Policy
- DAST Dynamic Application Security Testing
- DLL Dynamic-Link Library
- DREAD Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected Users, Discoverability
- HSTS HTTP Strict Transport Security
- IAST Interactive Application Security Testing
- MASTG Mobile Application Security Testing Guide
- MASVS Mobile Application Security Verification Standard
- OSSTMM Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual
- OWASP Open Worldwide Application Security Project
- PASTA Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis
- PTES Penetration Testing Execution Standard
- RASP Runtime Application Self-Protection
- ReDoS Regular Expression Denial of Service
- SAMM Software Assurance Maturity Model
- SARIF Static Analysis Results Interchange Format
- SAST Static Application Security Testing
- SBOM Software Bill of Materials
- SCA Software Composition Analysis
- SDK Software Development Kit
- SDL Security Development Lifecycle
- SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
- SLSA Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts
- SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
- SOP Same-Origin Policy
- SPDX Software Package Data Exchange
- SQL Structured Query Language
- SRI Subresource Integrity
- SSDF Secure Software Development Framework
- SSDLC Secure Software Development Life Cycle
- STRIDE Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege
- VDP Vulnerability Disclosure Program
- VEX Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange
- WAF Web Application Firewall
- WSTG Web Security Testing Guide
- XPath XML Path Language