Operations
73 acronyms in this category, in plain English.
- AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- ASM Attack Surface Management
- ATT&CK Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge
- BAS Breach and Attack Simulation
- BCDR Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- CDM Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation
- CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
- CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
- CIRT Computer Incident Response Team
- CPE Common Platform Enumeration
- CSIRT Computer Security Incident Response Team
- CTEM Continuous Threat Exposure Management
- CTF Capture the Flag
- CTI Cyber Threat Intelligence
- CVD Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
- CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System
- CWE Common Weakness Enumeration
- D3FEND Detection, Denial, and Disruption Framework Empowering Network Defense
- DevOps Development and Operations
- DFIR Digital Forensics and Incident Response
- EASM External Attack Surface Management
- EDR Endpoint Detection and Response
- EPSS Exploit Prediction Scoring System
- ETL Extract, Transform, Load
- FIM File Integrity Monitoring
- FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
- GPU Graphics Processing Unit
- IDS Intrusion Detection System
- IOA Indicator of Attack
- IOC Indicator of Compromise
- IPS Intrusion Prevention System
- IRP Incident Response Plan
- ISAC Information Sharing and Analysis Center
- ISAO Information Sharing and Analysis Organization
- KEV Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
- MDR Managed Detection and Response
- MSSP Managed Security Service Provider
- MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
- MTTA Mean Time to Acknowledge
- MTTD Mean Time to Detect
- MTTR Mean Time to Respond
- NDR Network Detection and Response
- NOC Network Operations Center
- NoSQL Not Only SQL
- NSM Network Security Monitoring
- NVD National Vulnerability Database
- OODA Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
- OSINT Open Source Intelligence
- OVAL Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
- PAP Permissible Actions Protocol
- PCAP Packet Capture
- PSIRT Product Security Incident Response Team
- RCA Root Cause Analysis
- RPA Robotic Process Automation
- SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol
- SIEM Security Information and Event Management
- SOAR Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
- SOC Security Operations Center
- SRE Site Reliability Engineering
- SSVC Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization
- STIX Structured Threat Information Expression
- syslog System Logging Protocol
- TAXII Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence Information
- TIP Threat Intelligence Platform
- TLP Traffic Light Protocol
- TTP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
- TTX Tabletop Exercise
- UBA User Behavior Analytics
- UEBA User and Entity Behavior Analytics
- XCCDF Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format
- XDR Extended Detection and Response
- YAML YAML Ain't Markup Language