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A

AAIA	Advanced in AI Audit	1
AAIR	Advanced in AI Risk	1
ABCD	Ray-transfer matrix (optics)	1
ACH	Analysis of Competing Hypotheses	1
AD	Active Directory	1 2
ADR	Architecture Decision Record	1 2 3
AEAD	Authenticated key exchange Authenticated encryption	1 2
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard	1 2 3 4
AI	Artificial Intelligence	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
ALC	Common Criteria life-cycle support class	1
AML	Anti-Money Laundering	1 2 3 4 5
ANSSI	French National Cybersecurity Agency	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
API	Application Programming Interface	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
APT1	Liberation Army unit	1 2
ASLR	Address-space layout randomisation	1 2
AST	Abstract Syntax Tree	1
ASVS	Computer Systems OWASP Application Security Verification Standard	1 2
AWG	An arrayed-waveguide grating	1
AWGN	Additive white Gaussian noise	1

B

BCNF	What distinguishes Boyce-Codd Normal Form	1
BCP	Business Continuity Plan	1 2 3
BCR	Binding Corporate Rules	1 2
BEC	Business email compromise	1 2
BGP	The Border Gateway Protocol	1 2 3

C

CBC	Cipher Block Chaining	1 2
CBEST	Bank of England intelligence-led penetration-testing framework	1 2 3
CCI	Cambridge Cyber International	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +31
CCPA	The California Consumer Privacy Act	1
CDN	Content Delivery Network	1
CDPO	Law School faculty Certified Data Protection Officer	1
CFT	Combating the Financing of Terrorism	1 2 3 4 5
CIDR	Classless Inter-domain Routing	1
CIS	Center for Internet Security	1 2
CISA	Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (United States)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
CISO	Chief Information Security Officer	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
CISSP	Certified Information Systems Security Professional	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
CJEU	Court of Justice of the European Union	1
CLS	Cumulative Layout Shift	1
CMDB	Configuration Management Database	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
CNIIHM	Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics	1
CPL	What is the cost-per-lead	1
CPRA	The California Privacy Rights Act	1
CPU	Central Processing Unit	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
CRA	Cyber Resilience Act	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
CRC	Cyclic redundancy check	1 2
CRO	Chief Risk Officer	1 2
CSCF	Customer Security Controls Framework (SWIFT)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +2
CSCS	EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre	1
CSF	Cybersecurity Framework (NIST)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
CSP	Customer Security Programme (SWIFT)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
CTL	Branching temporal logic	1
CTR	An extraordinarily low click-through rate	1 2
cVaR	Cyber Value at Risk	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
CVE	Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
CVSS	Common Vulnerability Scoring System	1 2 3

D

DCE	Harvard Extension School	1 2 3 4
DCS	Distributed Control System	1
DKIM	DomainKeys Identified Mail	1
DMARC	Reporting and Conformance	1 2
DMCA	Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act	1
DMU	Organizational buying behavior and the buying center	1
DNS	Domain Name System	1 2 3 4 5
DOI	Digital Object Identifier	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
DORA	Digital Operational Resilience Act	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +87
DPDP	Digital Personal Data Protection (Act, India)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +1
DPIA	Data Protection Impact Assessment	1 2
DPO	Data Protection Officer	1 2 3 4 5

E

ECC	Elliptic-Curve Cryptography	1 2 3
ECDH	Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman	1
ECDSA	Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm	1
ECPA	The Electronic Communications Privacy Act	1
EDF	Earliest-deadline-first	1
EDPB	European Data Protection Board	1 2 3
EEA	European Economic Area	1 2 3 4 5
ENISA	European Union Agency for Cybersecurity	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
ESD	How many Triconex Emergency Shutdown	1
EU	European Union	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
EUCC	European scheme	1

F

FAIR	Factor Analysis of Information Risk	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
FCA	Financial Conduct Authority (United Kingdom)	1 2 3 4
FDM	Frequency-division multiplexing	1
FFIEC	Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council	1 2
FFT	Fast Fourier Transform	1
FINMA	Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority	1 2 3 4
FLP	The Fischer-Lynch-Paterson	1
FWM	Four-wave mixing	1

G

GAFI	Groupe d'action financiere (Financial Action Task Force)	1 2 3 4 5
GCIDB	Global Cyber Incident Database (CCI)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +3
GMM	Gaussian Mixture Model	1
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit	1 2 3 4 5
GRC	Governance, Risk and Compliance	1
GTD	Global Terrorism Database	1

H

HMAC	Hash-based Message Authentication Code	1
HMI	Human-Machine Interface	1
HSM	Hardware Security Module	1
HTML	HyperText Markup Language	1

I

IA	Vitals The primary purpose of information architecture	1 2 3 4 5 6
IAM	Identity and Access Management	1
IBM	International Business Machines	1 2 3 4 5
ICT	Information and Communication Technology	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
IGO	Intergovernmental Organisation	1
INP	Interaction to Next Paint	1
IOC	Indicator of Compromise	1 2 3
IP	Internet Protocol	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
IPTPS	International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems	1
IR	Incident Response	1 2 3
ISA	Instruction Set Architecture	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ISMS	Information Security Management System	1 2 3 4 5
ISO	International Organization for Standardization	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +8

J

JSON	The JavaScript Object Notation	1 2 3 4 5 6 7

K

KRI	Key Risk Indicator	1
KYC	Know Your Customer	1 2 3 4 5 6 7

L

LCP	Largest Contentful Paint	1
LIGO	Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory	1 2
LPM	Loi de Programmation Militaire	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
LSM	Log Structured Merge	1 2 3
LTL	Identify both linear	1
LUT	An FPGA look-up table	1

M

MAC	Media Access Control	1 2 3
MAE	Mean Absolute Error	1
MAR	Missing at random	1
MCAR	Missing completely at random	1
MCP	The Model Context Protocol	1
MED	Highest local preference Lowest multi-exit discriminator	1
MeitY	Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (India)	1
MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ML	Machine Learning	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
MNAR	Missing not at random	1
MVCC	Concurrency Control	1
MZI	Mach-Zehnder Interferometer	1 2

N

NHS	UK National Health Service	1 2
NIS	Network and Information Security Directive	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
NIS2	Network and Information Security Directive (second)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +6
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
NYCRR	New York Codes, Rules and Regulations	1 2 3
NYDFS	New York State Department of Financial Services	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

O

OCW	Computer Systems Security	1
OFAC	Office of Foreign Assets Control (United States)	1 2 3 4 5
OIV	Opérateur d'Importance Vitale (vital-importance operator, France)	1 2 3 4 5
OSFI	Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
OSINT	Open-Source Intelligence	1
OT	Guide to Operational Technology	1 2
OWASP	Open Worldwide Application Security Project	1 2 3 4 5 6

P

PBFT	Explain how Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance	1
PCA	Principal Component Analysis	1 2
PCB	The process control block	1
PCI DSS	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard	1 2 3 4 5
PDF	Portable Document Format	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
PERT	Program Evaluation and Review Technique	1
PII	Personally Identifiable Information	1
PLC	Programmable Logic Controller	1 2
PLI	In Proskauer on Privacy	1
PP	Protection Profile	1 2
PPC	Paid search	1 2

R

RAG	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	1 2 3 4
RBI	Reserve Bank of India	1 2 3 4 5
RK4	Runge-Kutta fourth-order method	1
RMSE	Root Mean Squared Error	1
ROA	Route Origin Authorization	1
ROP	Return-oriented programming	1
ROV	Route Origin Validation	1
RPKI	The Resource Public Key Infrastructure	1
RTO	Recovery Time Objective	1
RTS	Regulatory Technical Standards	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
RTU	Remote Terminal Unit	1

S

SA	Supervisory Authority	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
SaaS	Software as a Service	1 2 3 4
SAMM	Software Assurance Maturity Model	1
SASE	Secure Access Service Edge	1
SAT	Boolean satisfiability	1
SBOM	Software Bill of Materials	1 2
SCC	Standard Contractual Clauses	1
SDE	Stochastic Differential Equation	1
SDF	Significant Data Fiduciary	1 2
SDL	Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle	1
SEO	Search Engine Optimisation	1 2 3
SIEM	Security Information and Event Management	1 2
SIR	Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (epidemic model)	1
SIS	Safety Instrumented System	1
SLA	Service-Level Agreement	1 2
SNR	Signal-to-Noise Ratio	1
SOC	Security Operations Centre	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
SOC 2	System and Organization Controls 2	1 2 3 4
SP	Special Publication (NIST)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
SPF	Sender Policy Framework	1 2
SSA	In static single assignment	1
SSDF	Exploit Development Secure Software Development Framework	1 2 3
SSI	Serializable Snapshot Isolation	1
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer	1 2 3 4 5 6
SSL-VPN	Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network	1 2 3 4
ST	Security Target	1 2 3 4 5 6
STK	SIM Toolkit	1
STP	Spanning Tree Protocol	1
SUNDR	Secure Untrusted Data Repository	1 2
SWAN	Achieving High Utilization with Software-Driven WAN	1
SWIFT	Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 +39

T

TCP	Transmission Control Protocol	1 2 3
TDM	Time-division multiplexing	1
TDSAT	Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal	1
TIBER	Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red Teaming	1 2 3 4 5 6
TIBER-EU	Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red Teaming (European framework)	1 2 3 4 5 6
TLPT	Threat-Led Penetration Testing	1 2 3 4 5 6
TLS	Transport Layer Security	1 2 3 4 5 6
TOE	The Target of Evaluation	1 2
TOP	Preregistration and the Transparency and Openness Promotion	1
TPM	Trusted Platform Module	1
TTFB	Time to First Byte	1
TTP	Tactics, Techniques and Procedures	1

U

UEMOA	West African Economic and Monetary Union	1 2 3 4 5 6
URL	Uniform Resource Locator	1 2 3 4
USB	Universal Serial Bus	1 2
UUID	Universally Unique Identifier	1
UXSS	Universal cross-site scripting	1

V

VaR	Value at Risk	1
VPN	Virtual Private Network	1 2 3 4 5 6 7

W

WAL	Write-Ahead Logging	1 2

X

XGM	Cross-Gain Modulation	1 2 3