1. ACRONYM LIST¶
- ACI¶
Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco product)
- ACL¶
Access Control List
- AD¶
Active Directory
- ADCS¶
Active Directory Certificate Services
- APIC¶
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cisco product)
- AU¶
Allocation Unit
- BIOS¶
Basic Input Output System
- BIT¶
Built-In-Test
- CA¶
Certificate Authority
- CD¶
Compact Disk
- CIFS¶
Common Internet File System
- COTS¶
Commercial Off The Shelf
- CRL¶
Certificate Revocation List
- DB¶
Database
- DBA¶
Database Administration
- DHCP¶
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS¶
Domain Name System
- DVD¶
Digital Versatile Disk
- ER¶
Engineering Release
- ESD¶
Electrostatic Discharge
- ESXi¶
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
- EULA¶
End User Licensing Agreement
- EWS¶
Exchange Web Services
- FC¶
Fiber Channel
- FQDN¶
Fully Qualified Domain Name
- FRA¶
Flash Recovery Area
- GB¶
Gigabyte
- GPO¶
Group Policy Object
- GPU¶
Graphics Processing Unit
- GRUB¶
GRand Unified Bootloader
- GUI¶
Graphical User Interface
- HA¶
High Availability
- HBA¶
Host Bus Adapter
- HDD¶
Hard Disk Drive
- IIS¶
Internet Information Services
- ILOM¶
Integrated Lights Out Management
- IP¶
Internet Protocol
- IPv4¶
Internet Protocol Version 4
- IPv6¶
Internet Protocol Version 6
- ISO¶
International Organization for Standardization. Also short for iso9660.
- ISO9660¶
A file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for optical disc media.
- KB¶
Kilobyte
- KMS¶
Key Management Service
- LAN¶
Local Area Network
- LDAP¶
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LGPO¶
Local Group Policy Object
- LUN¶
Logical Unit
- MB¶
Megabyte
- NAS¶
Network Attached Storage
- NFS¶
Network File System
- NIC¶
Network Interface Card
- NTP¶
Network Time Protocol
- OS¶
Operating System
- OVA¶
Open Virtual Appliance
- POST¶
Power On Self Test
- PXE¶
Preboot Execution Environment
- RAID¶
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
- RHEL¶
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- RSA¶
Rivest Shamir Adelman Algorithm
- SAN¶
Storage Area Network
- SAS¶
Serial Attached SCSI
- SATA¶
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
- SELinux¶
Security-Enhanced Linux
- SCP¶
Service Connection Point or Secure Copy (part of the SSH suite)
- SCSI¶
Small Computer Standard Interface
- SFTP¶
Secure File Transfer Protocol (part of the SSH suite)
- SHA¶
Secure Hash Algorithm
- SIEM¶
Security Information and Event Management
- SIP¶
Session Initiation Protocol
- SMB¶
Server Message Blocks
- SMTP¶
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SNMP¶
Simple Network Management Protocol
- SP¶
Service Pack (Windows context)
- SRV¶
Service Record in DNS
- SSD¶
Solid State Disk
- SSH¶
Secure Shell
- SSO¶
Single Sign-On
- TB¶
Terabyte
- TBD¶
To Be Determined
- TCP¶
Transmission Control Protocol
- TFTP¶
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TLS¶
Transport Layer Security
- UAC¶
User Account Control (Windows security feature)
- UEFI¶
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
- UDP¶
User Datagram Protocol
- UI¶
User Interface
- URL¶
Uniform Resource Locator
- USB¶
Universal Serial Bus
- VM¶
Virtual Machine
- WDS¶
Windows Deployment Services
- WSUS¶
Windows Server Update Services
- WWN¶
World Wide Name (Unique Identifier)