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A

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Asymmetric Cipher

B

Biometrics

C

Crimeware

D

Data Encryption Standard (DES)

Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)

Denial of Service / Distributed Denial of Service (DoS / DDoS)

F

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)

Firewall

Full Disk Encryption / Whole Disk Encryption

I

Instant Messaging (IM)

M

Malware

Media Encryption

O

Obfuscated Code

One-Time Password (OTP)

P

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Peer-To-Peer (P2P)

Phishing

Proximity Cards

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

R

Rootkit

S

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Smartcard

Spam

Spyware

Static Password

Symmetric Cipher

T

Tokens

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Trojan Horse

Two-Factor Authentication (2-FA)

U

Unified Threat Management (UTM)

V

Virus

W

Web 2.0

Worm

IT Security Glossary

A

B

C

D

F

I

M

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W