SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
IoT | Internet of Things |
NTS | Network Time Security |
PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol |
IPSec | IP Security |
PPTP | Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
IGRP | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
MPIO | MultiPath I/O |
NIC | Network Interface Controller |
NVMe-oF | NVMe over Fabrics |
vRAM | Virtual RAM |
SDWAN | Software-defined Wide-Area Network |
WAF | Web Application Firewall |
MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication |
VHD | Virtual Hard Disk |
PAT | Port Address Translation |
PIT | Point-in-Time (backup or snapshot) |
SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
XaaS | anything as a Service |
IAM | Identity and Access Management |
NAS | Network Attached Storage |
UPS | Universal Power Supply |
NPIV | N_Port ID Virtualization |
SDN | Software-Defined Network |
vSAN | Virtual SAN |
PBX | Private (or Public) Branch Exchange |
VXLAN | Virtual extensible LAN |
MFTP | Managed File Transfer Protocol |
SaaS | Software as a Service |
V2P | Virtual to Physical |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
XSS | Cross-site Scripting |
SRE | Site Reliability Engineer |
SSD | Solid State Disk |
IPAM | IP Address Management |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
YAML | Yet Another Markup Language |
IQN | iSCSI Qualified Name |
JBOD | Just a Bunch Of Disks |
KVM | Keyboard Video Mouse |
NTFS | New Technology File System |
IP | Internet Protocol |
VAT | Virtual Allocation Table |
IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
iSCSI | Internet Small Computer System Interface |
OLA | Operational Level Agreement |
IOPS | Input/Output Operations Per Second |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
SOA | Start of Authority |
VM | Virtual Machine |
P2V | Physical to Virtual |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
SSO | Single Sign-On |
NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
PAM | Privileged Access Management |
RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
TCO | Total Cost of Operations |
MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure |
NFS | Network File System |
SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
UAT | User Acceptance Testing |
NIDS | Network Intrusion Detection System |
P2P | Physical to Physical |
QoS | Quality of Service |
MBR | Master Boot Record |
NVGRE | Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
MTTF | Mean Time To Failure |
SCP | Session Control Protocol |
V2V | Virtual to Virtual |
RTO | Recovery Time Objectives |
MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
LUN | Logical Unit Number |
NS | Name Server |
LTS | Long-Term Support |
NIS | Network Information Service |
VLAN | Virtual LAN |
SMT | Simultaneous Multi-Threading |
VoIP | Voice over IP |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
ML | Machine Learning |
ZFS | Z File System |
I/O | Input/Output |
IFCP | Internet Fibre Channel Protocol |
vGPU | Virtual Graphics Processing Unit |
MDF | Main Distribution Facility |
IPMI | Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
SAN | Storage Area Network |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
vNIC | Virtual NIC |
L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
PaaS | Platform as a Service |
SSH | Secure Shell |
VDI | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
WWNN | World Wide Node Name |
NOC | Network Operations Center |
ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
VMFS | Virtual Machine File System |
SMB | Server Message Block |
WWPN | World Wide Port Name |
JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
SFTP | Secure FTP |
SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
STT | Stateless Transport Tunneling |
vCPU | Virtual CPU |
SR-IOV | Single-Root Input/ Output Virtualization |
QA | Quality Assurance |
UDP | Universal Datagram Protocol |
IaC | Infrastructure as Code |
IPC | Instructions Per Cycle |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
SDS | Software-Defined Storage |
SLA | Service Level Agreement |
TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
MAC | Mandatory Access Control |
SoC | System-on-Chip |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
HRIS | Human Resources Information System |
ISNS | Internet Storage Name Service |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
SPF | Sender Protection Framework |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
MSP | Managed Service Provider |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
vSwitch | Virtual Switch |
NFV | Network Function Virtualization |
WMI | Windows Management Implementation |
SAS | Serial Attached SCSI |
ICMP | Internet Control Management Protocol |
NAC | Network Access Control |
VTL | Virtual Tape Library |
NIPS | Network-based Intrusion Prevention System |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle |
LAN | Local Area Network |
ReFS | Resilient File System |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks |
IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
OS | Operating System |
VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |
TTL | Time to Live |
vADC | Virtual ADC |
IPS | Intrusion Prevention System |
MTTR | Mean Time To Repair |