List of Acronyms
It is always helpful to have a list of acronyms for the jargon of any discipline. 
The information technology field is full of acronyms. This list is a tool c-Champions can use as a resource.
Acronym |
Definition |
| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| APT | Advanced Persistent Threat |
| BSI | British Standards Institute |
| BYOD | Bring your own device |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CAPEC | Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification |
| CCE | Common Configuration Enumeration |
| CEE | Common Event Expression |
| CCIRC | Canadian Cyber Incident Response Center |
| CEEE | Common Event Expression Exchange |
| CERT-US | Computer Emergency Response Team United States |
| CI | Critical Infrastructure |
| CI | Critical Infrastructure / Key Resources |
| CIA | Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| CIP | Critical Infrastructure Protection |
| CIRT | Computer Incident Response Team |
| CIS | Center for Internet Security |
| CSA | Cloud Security Association |
| CSCP | Cyber Security Cooperation Program (Canada) |
| CSIAC | Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center |
| CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Response Team |
| CTI | Cyber Threat Intelligence (OASIS) |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
| CVE-ID | CVE Identifier |
| CVSS | Common Vulnerability Scoring System |
| CWE | Common Weakness Enumeration |
| CWSS | Common Weakness Scoring System |
| CYBER | Cybersecurity Technical Committee (ETSI) |
| CYBEX | Cybersecurity Information Exchange (ITU-T) |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security (USA) |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| ENISA | European Network and Information Security Agency |
| EPCIP | European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection |
| EO | Executive Order (USA) |
| ETSI | European Telecommunication Standards Institute |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission (USA) |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Authority (USA) |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards (USA) |
| FIRST | Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams |
| FS-ISAC | Federal Information Security Management Act (USA) |
| GCHQ | Government Communications Headquarters (UK) |
| GSA | Government Services Administration (USA) |
| GSMA | GSM Association |
| H2020 | Horizon 2020 (Europe) |
| IA | Information Assurance |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IAD | Information Assurance Directorate (USA) |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
| ICASI | Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IEEE | Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IODEF | Incident Object Description Exchange Format |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISF | Information Security Forum |
| ISAO | Information Sharing and Analysis Organization |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| KMIP | Key Management Interoperability Protocol (OASIS) |
| LI | Lawful Interception |
| MAEC | Malware Attribute Enumeration and Characterization |
| NCCC | National Cyber Coordination Centre |
| NCCOE | National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence |
| NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) |
| NSA | National Security Agency (USA) |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget (USA) |
| OS | Operating System |
| OVAL | Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PKCS | Public-Key Cryptography Standards |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PPP | Public Private Partnership |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Networks |
| RCR | Regional Cyber Resilience |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition |
| SoS | System of Systems |
| SCAP | Security Content Automation Protocol |
| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
| SOC | Security Operations Center |
| STIX | Structured Threat Information eXpression |
| TAXII | Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLP | Traffic Light Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |