Network
77 acronyms in this category, in plain English.
- AMSI Antimalware Scan Interface
- ARP Address Resolution Protocol
- BGP Border Gateway Protocol
- BIOS Basic Input/Output System
- BLE Bluetooth Low Energy
- BYOD Bring Your Own Device
- CAN Controller Area Network
- COPE Corporate-Owned, Personally Enabled
- DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DLP Data Loss Prevention
- DMZ Demilitarized Zone
- DNP3 Distributed Network Protocol 3
- DPAPI Data Protection Application Programming Interface
- EMM Enterprise Mobility Management
- EPP Endpoint Protection Platform
- ETW Event Tracing for Windows
- FDE Full Disk Encryption
- GPO Group Policy Object
- GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
- HBSS Host Based Security System
- HIDS Host-Based Intrusion Detection System
- HIPS Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System
- HMI Human-Machine Interface
- ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
- ICS Industrial Control System
- IEC 62443 International Electrotechnical Commission 62443
- IIoT Industrial Internet of Things
- IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
- IoT Internet of Things
- LAN Local Area Network
- LLMNR Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
- LSASS Local Security Authority Subsystem Service
- MDM Mobile Device Management
- mDNS Multicast DNS
- MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
- NAC Network Access Control
- NAT Network Address Translation
- NFC Near Field Communication
- NGFW Next-Generation Firewall
- NIDS Network-Based Intrusion Detection System
- NIPS Network-Based Intrusion Prevention System
- PAT Port Address Translation
- PLC Programmable Logic Controller
- POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3
- QUIC Quick UDP Internet Connections
- RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
- RFID Radio Frequency Identification
- SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
- SAM Security Account Manager
- SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
- SDN Software-Defined Networking
- SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network
- SED Self-Encrypting Drive
- SMB Server Message Block
- SSDP Simple Service Discovery Protocol
- TCP Transmission Control Protocol
- TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TPM Trusted Platform Module
- UAC User Account Control
- UDP User Datagram Protocol
- UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
- UEM Unified Endpoint Management
- UPnP Universal Plug and Play
- USB Universal Serial Bus
- UTM Unified Threat Management
- VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
- VNC Virtual Network Computing
- VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
- VPN Virtual Private Network
- vTPM Virtual Trusted Platform Module
- VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN
- WAN Wide Area Network
- WAP Wireless Access Point
- WIDS Wireless Intrusion Detection System
- WIPS Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
- WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
- WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup