2 AES Advanced Encryption Standard 3 CA Ceritificate Authority 4 CNSS Committee on National Security System 5 CPU Central Processing Unit 6 CRL Certificate Revocation List 7 DDoS Distributed Denial-of-service 8 DEC Digital Equipment Corporation 9 DES Data Encryption Standard 10 DMZ Demilitarized Zone 11 DSS Digital Signature Standard 12 FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface 13 HIDS Host-based Intrusion Detection System 14 IDPS Intrusion Detection and Prevention System 15 IPS Intrusion Prevention System 16 LAN Local Area Network 17 MAC Media Access Control 18 MACs Message Authentication Codes 19 MIT Massachusets Institute of Technology 20 MiTM Man-in-The-Middle 21 MULTICS Multiplexed Information and Computing Service 22 NAT Network Address Translation 23 NIC Network Interface Card 24 NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System 25 PC Personal Computer 26 PKI Public-key Infrastructure 27 RA Registration Authority 28 RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman 29 SAM Security Account Manager 30 SIEM Security Information and Event Management 31 SOHO Small Office/Home Office 32 SPA Stateful Protocol Analysis 33 TCP Transmission Control Protocol 34 UDP User Datagram Protocol 35 WAF Web Application Firewall