SEC+ SY0-701 Acronyms - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Acronym Answer % Correct
AI Artificial Intelligence
64%
AP Access Point
57%
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
57%
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
57%
ARO Annualized Rate of Occurrence
57%
AV Antivirus
57%
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
57%
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
57%
CA Certificate Authority
57%
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
57%
LAN Local Area Network
57%
ACL Access Control List
50%
API Application Programming Interface
50%
AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
50%
BYOD Bring Your Own Device
50%
CCTV Closed-circuit Television
50%
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
50%
DNS Domain Name System
50%
FTP File Transfer Protocol
50%
OS Operating System
50%
APT Advanced Persistent Threat
43%
ALE Annualized Loss Expectancy
43%
AH Authentication Header
43%
BASH Bourne Again Shell
43%
BCP Business Continuity Planning
43%
CIO Chief Information Officer
43%
DoS Denial of Service
43%
HDD Hard Disk Drive
43%
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
43%
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
43%
NGFW Next-generation Firewall
43%
NDA Non-disclosure Agreement
43%
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
43%
OSINT Open-source Intelligence
43%
OTA Over the Air
43%
P2P Peer to Peer
43%
SaaS Software as a Service
43%
ATT&CK Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge
36%
BIA Business Impact Analysis
36%
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
36%
CBC Cipher Block Chaining
36%
CASB Cloud Access Security Broker
36%
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
36%
CMS Content Management System
36%
CAR Corrective Action Report
36%
CSRF | XSRF Cross-site Request Forgery
36%
XSS Cross-site Scripting
36%
DLL Dynamic Link Library
36%
IP Internet Protocol
36%
OID Object Identifier
36%
OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol
36%
OAuth Open Authorization
36%
PHI Personal Health Information
36%
PaaS Platform as a Service
36%
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
36%
POP Post Office Protocol
36%
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
36%
SLA Service-level Agreement
36%
ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization
29%
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
29%
BPA Business Partners Agreement
29%
CRL Certificate Revocation List
29%
CFB Cipher Feedback
29%
CIRT Computer Incident Response Team
29%
COOP Continuity of Operation Planning
29%
CTM Counter Mode
29%
CCMP Counter Mode/CBC-MAC Protocol
29%
CRC Cyclical Redundancy Check
29%
DLP Data Loss Prevention
29%
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
29%
ECB Electronic Code Book
29%
ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
29%
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
29%
GCM Galois Counter Mode
29%
HA High Availability
29%
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
29%
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
29%
IoT Internet of Things
29%
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
29%
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
29%
MFA Multifactor Authentication
29%
NTP Network Time Protocol
29%
OT Operational Technology
29%
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
29%
RFID Radio Frequency Identifier
29%
RPO Recovery Point Objective
29%
RTO Recovery Time Objective
29%
ROI Return on Investment
29%
RSA Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman
29%
RBAC Role-based Access Control
29%
SSH Secure Shell
29%
SAN Storage Area Network
29%
USB Universal Serial Bus
29%
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
29%
VM Virtual Machine
29%
WAP Wireless Access Point
29%
AIS Automated Indicator Sharing
21%
CSR Certificate Signing Request
21%
CSO Chief Security Officer
21%
CYOD Choose Your Own Device
21%
COPE Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled
21%
DHE Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
21%
DES Digital Encryption Standard
21%
DAC Discretionary Access Control
21%
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
21%
ESN Electronic Serial Number
21%
EDR Endpoint Detection and Response
21%
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
21%
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
21%
MAC Mandatory Access Control
21%
MTTR Mean Time to Recover
21%
MAC Media Access Control
21%
NAC Network Access Control
21%
NTFS New Technology File System
21%
NTLM New Technology LAN Manager
21%
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
21%
PED Personal Electronic Device
21%
PII Personally Identifiable Information
21%
P12 PKCS #12
21%
PAT Port Address Translation
21%
PUP Potentially Unwanted Program
21%
PDU Power Distribution Unit
21%
PAM Privileged Access Management
21%
PAC Proxy Auto Configuration
21%
RTOS Real-time Operating System
21%
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
21%
SDN Software-defined Networking
21%
SDK Software Development Kit
21%
UDP User Datagram Protocol
21%
WO Work Order
21%
CSU Channel Service Unit
14%
CTO Chief Technology Officer
14%
CSP Cloud Service Provider
14%
CVE Common Vulnerability Enumeration
14%
CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System
14%
CP Contingency Planning
14%
DBA Database Administrator
14%
DNAT Destination Network Address Translation
14%
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
14%
DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail
14%
EFS Encrypted File System
14%
XOR Exclusive Or
14%
XML Extensible Markup Language
14%
FACL File System Access Control List
14%
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
14%
GPO Group Policy Object
14%
HVAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
14%
ISP Internet Service Provider
14%
IDS Intrusion Detection System
14%
IPS Intrusion Prevention System
14%
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
14%
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
14%
ML Machine Learning
14%
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
14%
MTTF Mean Time to Failure
14%
MD5 Message Digest 5
14%
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
14%
MSCHAP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
14%
MFD Multifunction Device
14%
MFP Multifunction Printer
14%
NIST National Institute of Standards & Technology
14%
NFC Near Field Communication
14%
OVAL Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
14%
PFS Perfect Forward Secrecy
14%
PIV Personal Identity Verification
14%
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
14%
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
14%
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
14%
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
14%
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
14%
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
14%
RA Registration Authority
14%
RAT Remote Access Trojan
14%
RTBH Remotely Triggered Black Hole
14%
SASE Secure Access Service Edge
14%
SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals
14%
SLE Single Loss Expectancy
14%
SSO Single Sign-on
14%
SSD Solid State Drive
14%
SQL Structured Query Language
14%
TLS Transport Layer Security
14%
URL Universal Resource Locator
14%
VPN Virtual Private Network
14%
VoIP Voice over IP
14%
WAF Web Application Firewall
14%
CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
7%
DEP Data Execution Prevention
7%
DPO Data Privacy Officer
7%
DRP Disaster Recovery Plan
7%
DMARC Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
7%
ECDHE Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
7%
ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
7%
XDR Extended Detection and Response
7%
FRR False Rejection Rate
7%
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
7%
FDE Full Disk Encryption
7%
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
7%
GPS Global Positioning System
7%
HSM Hardware Security Module
7%
HMAC Hash-based Message Authentication Code
7%
HOTP HMAC-based One-time Password
7%
HIDS Host-based Intrusion Detection System
7%
HIPS Host-based Intrusion Prevention System
7%
IR Incident Response
7%
IRP Incident Response Plan
7%
IoC Indicators of Compromise
7%
ICS Industrial Control Systems
7%
IM Instant Messaging
7%
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
7%
ISO International Standards Organization
7%
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
7%
IKE Internet Key Exchange
7%
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
7%
KDC Key Distribution Center
7%
KEK Key Encryption Key
7%
LEAP Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
7%
MDF Main Distribution Frame
7%
MSSP Managed Security Service Provider
7%
MSP Managed Service Provider
7%
MBR Master Boot Record
7%
MSA Master Service Agreement
7%
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
7%
MAC Message Authentication Code
7%
MDM Mobile Device Management
7%
MMS Multimedia Message Service
7%
NIDS Network-based Intrusion Detection System
7%
NIPS Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
7%
PCAP Packet Capture
7%
PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules
7%
PSK Pre-shared Key
7%
PBX Private Branch Exchange
7%
PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
7%
RAD Rapid Application Development
7%
RA Recovery Agent
7%
RAS Remote Access Server
7%
RC4 Rivest Cipher version 4
7%
RBAC Rule-based Access Control
7%
SHA Secure Hashing Algorithm
7%
SHTTP Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
7%
S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
7%
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
7%
SAML Security Assertions Markup Language
7%
SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol
7%
SED Self-encrypting Drives
7%
SMS Short Message Service
7%
SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
7%
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
7%
SMTPS Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure
7%
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
7%
SDLC Software Development Lifecycle
7%
SOW Statement of Work
7%
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
7%
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
7%
TTP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
7%
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
7%
TGT Ticket Granting Ticket
7%
TOTP Time-based One-time Password
7%
TOC Time-of-check
7%
TOU Time-of-use
7%
TSIG Transaction Signature
7%
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
7%
TPM Trusted Platform Module
7%
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
7%
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
7%
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
7%
UAT User Acceptance Testing
7%
VTC Video Teleconferencing
7%
VPC Virtual Private Cloud
7%
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
7%
WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup
7%
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
7%
WIDS Wireless Intrusion Detection System
7%
WIPS Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
7%
ESP Encapsulated Security Payload
0%
FIM File Integrity Management
0%
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
0%
GPG Gnu Privacy Guard
0%
IAM Identity and Access Management
0%
IdP Identity Provider
0%
ISSO Information Systems Security Officer
0%
IaC Infrastructure as Code
0%
IV Initialization Vector
0%
IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame
0%
IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm
0%
IRC Internet Relay Chat
0%
MaaS Monitoring as a Service
0%
MPLS Multi-protocol Label Switching
0%
NAT Network Address Translation
0%
PTZ Pan-tilt-zoom
0%
PBKDF2 Password-based Key Derivation Function 2
0%
PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
0%
RIPEMD RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
0%
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service
0%
RACE Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
0%
FTPS | SFTP Secured File Transfer Protocol
0%
SRTP Secure Real-Time Protocol
0%
SWG Secure Web Gateway
0%
SELinux Security-enhanced Linux
0%
SIEM Security Information and Event Management
0%
SOC Security Operations Center
0%
SOAR Security Orchestration, Automation, Response
0%
SPF Sender Policy Framework
0%
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
0%
SD-WAN Software-defined Wide Area Network
0%
SDLM Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
0%
SPIM Spam over Internet Messaging
0%
SQLi SQL Injection
0%
SEH Structured Exception Handler
0%
STIX Structured Threat Information eXchange
0%
SAN Subject Alternative Name
0%
SoC System on Chip
0%
TACACS+ Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
0%
TAXII Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information
0%
UEM Unified Endpoint Management
0%
UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
0%
UTM Unified Threat Management
0%
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
0%
USB OTG USB On the Go
0%
VLSM Variable Length Subnet Masking
0%
VDE Virtual Desktop Environment
0%
VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
0%
VBA Visual Basic
0%
WTLS Wireless TLS
0%
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