Acronyms

See: Internet Architecture Board.

The process of managing and provisioning an organization’s IT infrastructure using machine readable configuration files, rather than employing physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.

See: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

See: Information Assurance Technical Framework.

See: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

See: Internet Control Message Protocol.

See: indirect certificate revocation list.

a cloud based identity and access management (IAM) offered by a third party provider

See: International Data Encryption Algorithm.

An abbreviation used in this Glossary to refer to a document or other item of written material that is generated in the Internet Standards Process (RFC 2026), i.e., an RFC, an Internet Draft, or some other item of discourse.

Software that automates the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents and attempting to stop detected possible incidents

See: intrusion detection system.

See: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

See: Internet Engineering Steering Group.

See: Internet Engineering Task Force.

the collection of sensors, instruments and autonomous devices connected through the internet to industrial applications

See: IPsec Key Exchange.

See: Internet Message Access Protocol, version 4.

See: "International Committee for Information Technology Standardization" under "ANSI".

See: information operations condition

the processes and tools designed and deployed to protect sensitive business information from modification, disruption, destruction, and inspection

a clue that a malicious entity has gained, or is attempting to gain, unauthorised access to the network or assets connected to the network

refers to the series of behaviors that a cybercriminal exhibits prior to executing a cyberattack.

clues and evidence of a data breach

See: Internet Open Trading Protocol.

See: Internet Protocol.

See: Internet Private Line Interface.

See: Internet Policy Registration Authority.

See: Internet Protocol Suite.

a set of communication rules or protocols for setting up secure connections over a network

See: Internet Protocol Security Option.

See: Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol.

International Organization for Standardization, a voluntary, non treaty, non governmental organization, established in 1947, with voting members that are designated standards bodies of participating nations and non voting observer organizations. (Compare: ANSI, IETF, ITU T, W3C.)

See: Internet Society.

See: International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

See: Information Technology System Evaluation Criteria.

International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly "CCITT"), a United Nations treaty organization that is composed mainly of postal, telephone, and telegraph authorities of the member countries and that publishes standards called "Recommendations". (See: X.400, X.500.)

See: initialization value.