802.11 Wireless protocol. Also referred to as WiFi.

// (double forward slashes) Double forward slashes at the beginning of filenames meant hat the files exist on a remote server(computer). The // is common to the Internet and Websites.

§ Section or subsection.

ACFE Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

ACL Access-control list

ACLU American Civil Liberties Union

ADSL Asymmetric digital subscriber line

AIM America Online Instant Messenger

AMA American Management Association

ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers

ASP Application service provider

ATM Asynchronous transfer mode

AUP Acceptable-use policy

AV Antivirus

BCC Blind carbon copy

bps Bits per second

BS British standard

C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network

CA Certification authority

CCIPS Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the DOJ

CD Compact disc

CDA Communications Decency Act

CDT Center for Democracy and Technology

CEO Chief executive officer

CERT. Computer Emergency Response Team

CFAA Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

CFE Certified fraud examiner

CFO Chief financial officer

CGI Common gateway interface

CGI-Bin Common gateway interface binaries (programs)

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIRT Computer incident response team

CISO Chief information security officer

CNN Cable News Network

COPPA Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

CPPA Child Pornography Prevention Act

CPU Central processing unit

CRC Cyclic redundancy check

CRM Customer relationship management

CSI Computer Security Institute, Inc.

CTO Chief technology officer

DCA Distributed coordinated attacks

DDOS Distributed denial of service

dig sig Digital signature

DLM Digital liability management

DMS Defense message system

DMV Department of Motor Vehicles

DMZ Demilitarized zone

DNS Domain name server

DOS Denial of service

DOJ Department of Justice

DOT Department of Transportation

DPH Digital Pearl Harbor

DRM Digital rights management

DSL Digital subscriber line

Ecommerce Electronic commerce

ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation

email Electronic mail

EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center

ERM Electronic records management

ESIGN Electronic Signatures in Global andNational Commerce Act

ESSENCE Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics

EU European Union

Fax Facsimile

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FedCIRC Federal Computer Incident Response Center

FinCEN Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act

FTC Federal Trade Commission

FTP File transfer protocol

G-8 Group of Eight

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAO General Accounting Office

GB Gigabyte (1024 megabytes)

GIF Graphic interchange format

GLB Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999

GPS Global Positioning System

HAZMAT Hazardous materials

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HR Human Resources

HTML Hypertext markup language

HTTP Hypertext transfer protocol

HTTPS Hypertext transfer protocol secure

ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICMP Internet control message protocol

ICQ “I-seek-you”

IDS Intrusion detection system

IFIA Internet False Identification Prevention Act of 2000

IIS Internet Information Services (Microsoft)

IM Instant message

IP Internet protocol

ISACs Information Sharing and Analysis Centers

ISDN Integrated services digital network

ISO International organization for standardization

ISP Internet service provider

ISS Internet security systems

IT Information technology

JS JavaScript

KBps Kilobytes per second

KM Knowledge management

LAN Local area network

LDAP Lightweight directory access protocol

LLC Limited liability corporation

MBps Megabytes per second

MD Message digest

MIME Multipurpose Internet mail extensions

MP3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio

NASA National Aeronautics & Space Administration

NAT Network address translation

NIIPA National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996

NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLRB National Labor Relations Board

OCC Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

OEM Original equipment manufacturer

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OS Operating system

OWASP Open Web Application Security Project

P2P Peer-to-peer

P3P Privacy Preferences Project

PBX Private branch exchange

PC Personal computer

PDA Personal digital assistant

PGP Pretty good privacy

PIHI Personally identifiable health information

Ping Packet Internet groper

PKI Public key infrastructure

R&D Research and development

RAT Remote-access Trojan

RF Radio frequency

ROI Return on investment

SAINT Security administrator integrated network tool

SAN Storage area network

SANS System Administration, Auditing, Networking, and Security Institute

SATAN Security administrator tool for analyzing networks

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

SET Secure electronic transmission

SIPRNET Secret Internet protocol router network

SMTP Simple mail transport protocol

SSL Secure sockets layer

SSO Single sign-on

SQL Structured query language

TCO Total cost of ownership

TCP Transfer control protocol

TCP/IP Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol

TFN Tribe Flood Net

TFN2K Tribal Flood Net 2000

TTV Taxonomy of threats and vulnerabilities

TQM Total quality management

TXT Text

UCE Unsolicited commercial email

UDP User datagram protocol

UETA Uniform Electronic Transaction Act of 1999

UPX Ultimate packer for executables

URL Uniform resource locator

USA PATRIOT Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

USC United States Code

USCG United States Coast Guard

VB Visual Basic

VBS Visual Basic Script

VoIP Voice over Internet protocol

VPN Virtual private network

WAN Wide area network

WAP Web application protocol

WCC White-collar crime

WWW World Wide Web

XML Extensible markup language