Abbreviation
|
Meaning
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3DES
|
Triple DES
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ACE
|
Access Control Entry
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ACL
|
Access Control List
|
ACP
|
Access Control Policy
|
AD
|
Active Directory
|
ADAM
|
Active Directory Application Mode
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AES
|
Advanced Encryption Standard
|
AGD
|
Administrator Guidance Document
|
AH
|
Authentication Header
|
ALPC
|
Advanced Local Process Communication
|
ANSI
|
American National Standards Institute
|
API
|
Application Programming Interface
|
APIC
|
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
|
BTG
|
BitLocker To Go
|
CA
|
Certificate Authority
|
CBAC
|
Claims Basic Access Control, see DYN
|
CBC
|
Cipher Block Chaining
|
CC
|
Common Criteria
|
CD-ROM
|
Compact Disk Read Only Memory
|
CIFS
|
Common Internet File System
|
CIMCPP
|
Certificate Issuing and Management Components For Basic Robustness Environments Protection Profile, Version 1.0, April 27, 2009
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CM
|
Configuration Management; Control Management
|
COM
|
Component Object Model
|
CP
|
Content Provider
|
CPU
|
Central Processing Unit
|
CRL
|
Certificate Revocation List
|
CryptoAPI
|
Cryptographic API
|
CSP
|
Cryptographic Service Provider
|
DAC
|
Discretionary Access Control
|
DACL
|
Discretionary Access Control List
|
DC
|
Domain Controller
|
DEP
|
Data Execution Prevention
|
DES
|
Data Encryption Standard
|
DH
|
Diffie-Hellman
|
DHCP
|
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
|
DFS
|
Distributed File System
|
DMA
|
Direct Memory Access
|
DNS
|
Domain Name System
|
DS
|
Directory Service
|
DSA
|
Digital Signature Algorithm
|
DYN
|
Dynamic Access Control
|
EAL
|
Evaluation Assurance Level
|
ECB
|
Electronic Code Book
|
EFS
|
Encrypting File System
|
ESP
|
Encapsulating Security Protocol
|
FEK
|
File Encryption Key
|
FIPS
|
Federal Information Processing Standard
|
FRS
|
File Replication Service
|
FSMO
|
Flexible Single Master Operation
|
FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
|
FVE
|
Full Volume Encryption
|
GB
|
Gigabyte
|
GC
|
Global Catalog
|
GHz
|
Gigahertz
|
GPC
|
Group Policy Container
|
GPO
|
Group Policy Object
|
GPOSPP
|
US Government Protection Profile for General-Purpose Operating System in a Networked Environment
|
GPT
|
Group Policy Template
|
GPT
|
GUID Partition Table
|
GUI
|
Graphical User Interface
|
GUID
|
Globally Unique Identifiers
|
HTTP
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
|
HTTPS
|
Secure HTTP
|
I/O
|
Input / Output
|
I&A
|
Identification and Authentication
|
IA
|
Information Assurance
|
ICF
|
Internet Connection Firewall
|
ICMP
|
Internet Control Message Protocol
|
ICS
|
Internet Connection Sharing
|
ID
|
Identification
|
IDE
|
Integrated Drive Electronics
|
IETF
|
Internet Engineering Task Force
|
IFS
|
Installable File System
|
IIS
|
Internet Information Services
|
IKE
|
Internet Key Exchange
|
IP
|
Internet Protocol
|
IPv4
|
IP Version 4
|
IPv6
|
IP Version 6
|
IPC
|
Inter-process Communication
|
IPI
|
Inter-process Interrupt
|
IPSec
|
IP Security
|
ISAPI
|
Internet Server API
|
IT
|
Information Technology
|
KDC
|
Key Distribution Center
|
LAN
|
Local Area Network
|
LDAP
|
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
|
LPC
|
Local Procedure Call
|
LSA
|
Local Security Authority
|
LSASS
|
LSA Subsystem Service
|
LUA
|
Least-privilege User Account
|
MAC
|
Message Authentication Code
|
MB
|
Megabyte
|
MMC
|
Microsoft Management Console
|
MSR
|
Model Specific Register
|
NAC
|
(Cisco) Network Admission Control
|
NAP
|
Network Access Protection
|
NAT
|
Network Address Translation
|
NIC
|
Network Interface Card
|
NIST
|
National Institute of Standards and Technology
|
NLB
|
Network Load Balancing
|
NMI
|
Non-maskable Interrupt
|
NTFS
|
New Technology File System
|
NTLM
|
New Technology LAN Manager
|
OS
|
Operating System
|
PAE
|
Physical Address Extension
|
PC/SC
|
Personal Computer/Smart Card
|
PIN
|
Personal Identification Number
|
PKCS
|
Public Key Certificate Standard
|
PKI
|
Public Key Infrastructure
|
PP
|
Protection Profile
|
RADIUS
|
Remote Authentication Dial In Service
|
RAID
|
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
|
RAM
|
Random Access Memory
|
RAS
|
Remote Access Service
|
RC4
|
Rivest’s Cipher 4
|
RID
|
Relative Identifier
|
RNG
|
Random Number Generator
|
RPC
|
Remote Procedure Call
|
RSA
|
Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
|
RSASSA
|
RSA Signature Scheme with Appendix
|
SA
|
Security Association
|
SACL
|
System Access Control List
|
SAM
|
Security Assurance Measure
|
SAML
|
Security Assertion Markup Language
|
SAR
|
Security Assurance Requirement
|
SAS
|
Secure Attention Sequence
|
SD
|
Security Descriptor
|
SHA
|
Secure Hash Algorithm
|
SID
|
Security Identifier
|
SIP
|
Session Initiation Protocol
|
SIPI
|
Startup IPI
|
SF
|
Security Functions
|
SFP
|
Security Functional Policy
|
SFR
|
Security Functional Requirement
|
SMB
|
Server Message Block
|
SMI
|
System Management Interrupt
|
SMTP
|
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
|
SP
|
Service Pack
|
SPI
|
Security Parameters Index
|
SPI
|
Stateful Packet Inspection
|
SRM
|
Security Reference Monitor
|
SSL
|
Secure Sockets Layer
|
SSP
|
Security Support Providers
|
SSPI
|
Security Support Provider Interface
|
ST
|
Security Target
|
SYSVOL
|
System Volume
|
TCP
|
Transmission Control Protocol
|
TDI
|
Transport Driver Interface
|
TLS
|
Transport Layer Security
|
TOE
|
Target of Evaluation
|
TPM
|
Trusted Platform Module
|
TSC
|
TOE Scope of Control
|
TSF
|
TOE Security Functions
|
TSS
|
TOE Summary Specification
|
UART
|
Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter
|
UI
|
User Interface
|
UID
|
User Identifier
|
UNC
|
Universal Naming Convention
|
US
|
United States
|
UPN
|
User Principal Name
|
URL
|
Uniform Resource Locator
|
USB
|
Universal Serial Bus
|
USN
|
Update Sequence Number
|
v5
|
Version 5
|
VDS
|
Virtual Disk Service
|
VPN
|
Virtual Private Network
|
VSS
|
Volume Shadow Copy Service
|
WAN
|
Wide Area Network
|
WCF
|
Windows Communications Framework
|
WebDAV
|
Web Document Authoring and Versioning
|
WebSSO
|
Web Single Sign On
|
WDM
|
Windows Driver Model
|
WIF
|
Windows Identity Framework
|
WMI
|
Windows Management Instrumentation
|
WSC
|
Windows Security Center
|
WU
|
Windows Update
|
WSDL
|
Web Service Description Language
|
WWW
|
World-Wide Web
|
X64
|
A 64-bit instruction set architecture
|
X86
|
A 32-bit instruction set architecture
|