AAA:                   Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

AI:                       Artificial Intelligence

APT:                    Advanced Persistent Threat

BYOD:                Bring Your Own Device

CAN:                   Campus Area Network

CFAA:                 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986

CIA:                     Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

CIRCIA:              Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022

CISA:                  Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency;
also Cyber Security Information Sharing Act of 2015

CPU:                    Central Processing Unit

DCMA:                Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

DHCP:                 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DLL:                    Dynamic Link Library

DNS:                    Domain Name System

DOS:                    Denial of Service

DDOS:                 Distributed Denial of Service

ECPA:                  Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

FERPA:               Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974

FTP:                     File Transfer Protocol

GAN:                   Global Area Network

GDPR:                 General Data Protection Regulation (European Union)

GLBA:                 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

HAN:                   Home Area Network

HDD:                   Hard Disk Drives

HIPAA:                Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HTTP:                 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS:               Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

ICMP:                  Internet Control Message Protocol

IDS:                     Intrusion Detection System

IoT:                      Internet of Things

IP:                        Internet Protocol

IPS:                      Intrusion Prevention System

JSON:                  JavaScript Object Notation

LAN:                   Local Area Network

MAC:                  Media Access Control

MAN:                  Metropolitan Area Network

NAS:                    Network-Attached Storage

NIC:                     Network Interface Card

NIST:                   National Institute of Standards and Technology

OS:                      Operating System

OT:                      Operational Technology

PAN:                    Personal Area Network

PCI DSS:             Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

PII:                       Personally Identifiable Information

RAM:                  Random Access Memory

SAML:                Security Assertion Markup Language

SAN:                    Storage Area Network

SFTP:                  Secure File Transfer Protocol

SQL:                    Structured Query Language

SSD:                    Solid-State Drives

SSH:                    Secure Shell

SSL:                     Secure Sockets Layer

TCP:                    Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP:               Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TLS:                    Transport Layer Security

UDP:                    User Datagram Protocol

USA PATRIOT:   Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001

USB:                    Universal Serial Bus

VPN:                    Virtual Private Network

WAN:                  Wide Area Network

WLAN:               Wireless Local Area Network

XML:                   Extensible Markup Language