Abbreviations

There are literally thousands of IT abbreviations out there. Many are concerned with the technical aspects of the computer, while others deal with cybersecurity. Following are some more common ones that you may have heard but do not know exactly what they mean.

1 AES Advance Encryption Standard
2 AIA Authority Information Access
3 API Application Programming Interface
4 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
5 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
6 ASR Automated Speech Recognition
7 BIMI Brand Indicators for Message Identification
8 BIOS Basic Input Output System
9 BYOD Bring Your Own Device
10 CA Certificate Authority
11 CA|B Certificates Authority Browser Forum
12 CAA Certificate Authority Authorisation
13 CC Cert Central
14 CCE Cert Central Enterprise
15 CCP Cert Central Partner
16 CDN Content Delivery Network
17 CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing or supernetting
18 CN Common Name
19 CNC Computerized Numerical Control
20 CPS Certification Practice Statement
21 CPU Central Processing Unit
22 CRL Certificate Revocation List
23 CSR Certificate Signing Request
24 CSS Cascading Style Sheet
25 CT Certificates Transparency
26 DER Distinguished Encoding Rules
27 DES Data Encryption Standard
28 DLC Downloadable Content
29 DMRAC Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance
30 DPI Dots per Inch
31 DRM Digital Rights Management
32 DSL Digital Subscriber Line
33 DTP Desk-Top Publishing,
34 DV Domain Validation Certificates
35 DVR Digital Video Recorder
36 ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
37 EEA European Economic Area
38 EJB Enterprise Java Bean
39 EKU Extended Key Usage
40 EST Enrollment over Secure Transport
41 EST Enrollment over Secure Transport
42 EU European Union
43 EV Extended Validation
44 FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
45 GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
46 GIF Graphics Interchange Format
47 GUI Graphical User Interface
48 HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
49 HTML HyperText Markup Language
50 HTTP Hyper Text Transfer protocol
51 ICA Intermediate Certificate Authority
52 IDE Integrated Development Environment
53 IOT Internet Over Thing
54 IOTDM Internet Over Thing Device Manager
55 JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
56 JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group
57 Mb Megabit
58 MB Megabyte
59 MbPS Megabits Per Second
60 MBPS Megabytes Per Second
61 MDM Mobile Device Management
62 MFA Multi-Factor Authentication
63 MIDI Music Instrument Digital Interface
64 MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
65 MP3 MPEG-1AudioLayer-3
66 MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
67 MSSPs Managed Secure Service
68 OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol
69 OV Organization Validation
70 OV Organization Validation Certificates
71 P2P Peer to Peer
72 PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
73 PDF Portable Document Format
74 PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
75 PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
76 PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
77 PKI Public Key Infrastructure
78 PQC Post Quantum Cryptography
79 PS Postscript
80 RAM Random Access Memory
81 REST Representational State Transfer
82 RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
83 ROM Read Only Memory
84 RSA Rivest–Shamir–Adleman
85 S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
86 SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
87 SAN Cert Subject-Alt-Name Certificates
88 SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
89 SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
90 SIM Subscriber Identity Module
91 SKU Stock Keeping Unit
92 SMS Short Message Service
93 SNI Server Name Indication
94 SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
95 SPF Sender Policy Framework
96 SQL Structured Query Language
97 SSL Secure Socket Layer
98 SSO Single Sign-On
99 SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
100 TLS Transport Layer Security
101 UDM Unified Data Management
102 UEM Unified Endpoint Management
103 URI Uniform Resource Identifier
104 URL Uniform Resource Locator
105 USB Universal Serial Bus
106 VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Seize
107 VMC Verified Mark Certificate
108 WWW World Wide Web
109 XML Xtensible Markup Language
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