# Acronyms **URL:** \ **Category:** F5 Technical Articles\ **Tags:** netops, domainadmins, developer, devops, secops\ **Created:** [July 6, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971 "2022-07-06T20:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DinaS](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/dinas/32/11665_2.png) [@DinaS](https://community.f5.com/u/DinaS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/1 "2022-07-06T20:04:03Z")
_Acronyms, are used all the time and the author /presentor is usually convinced that everyone in the audience understands what they mean, but every once in a while you hear or read something that you are not sure of the meaning. We are all professionals, that do not want to look like we are the only one in the room who does not know. So after hearing a talk or reading an article we often find ourselves looking it up; this can become confusing because acronyms mean different things when we search outside our field._ _For example **CE**  what does it mean? The letters “ **CE** ” are the abbreviation of French phrase “ **C** onformité  **E** uropéene” which literally means “European Conformity”.  In the dictionary you will probably find CE meaning  **C** ommon **E** ra **or C** hristian  **E** ra.  When looking for a more modern meaning, we will find it may mean Consumer Electronics. But here in our community, when someone writes CE, they mean **C** ustomer **E** dge._ _Here, you have, at your fingertips a list of acronyms, unconfused with other fields._ _Please let me know if I missed any acronyms so I can add them to our list._ **[A](#community-297117-A) | [B](#community-297117-B) | [C](#community-297117-C) | [D](#community-297117-D) | [E](#community-297117-E) | [F](#community-297117-F) | [G](#community-297117-G) | [H](#community-297117-H) | [I](#community-297117-I) | [J](#community-297117-J) | [K](#community-297117-K) | [L](#community-297117-L) | [M](#community-297117-M) | [N](#community-297117-N) | [O](#community-297117-O) | [P](#community-297117-P) | [Q](#community-297117-Q) | [R](#community-297117-R) | [S](#community-297117-S) | [T](#community-297117-T) | [U](#community-297117-U) | [V](#community-297117-V) | [W](#community-297117-W) | [X](#community-297117-X%20target=) | [Y](#community-297117-Y) | [Z](#community-297117-Z) |** ##  A **ACL** - Access Control List **ADC** - Application Delivery Controller **ADN** - Application delivery network **ADO** - Application Delivery Optimization **ALG** - Application Layer Gateway **AI** - Artificial Intelligence **AJAX** -  Asynchronous JavaScript and XML **API**   -   Application Programming Interface **APM**   -  Access Policy Manager **ASM**   -  Application Security Manager  (_F5’s Application Security Manager™ ASM is also known as BD_) **AWAF** - Advanced Web Application Firewall **AWS**   -  Amazon Web Services ##  B **BaDos**   -  Behaviour AniDDoS _(Behaviour AniDDoS, an F5 product that is used against DDoS)_ **BDM** -- Business Decision Maker **BGP**   -  Border Gateway Protocol **BOO**   -  Build Once Only ##  C **CDN** -  Content Delivery Network **CE**   -  Customer Edge **CGNAT** -  Carrier Grade NAT **CIA** triad  -  Confidentiality, Integrity,Availability (triad Security model) **CIFS**   -  Common Internet file system **CRS**   -  Core RuleSet **CRUD** -  Create , Read, Update, Delete **CSRF** - Cross-Site Request Forgery, also known as XSRF **CUPS** - Control Plane and User Plane Separation **CVE** - Common Vulnerabilities and exposures **CVSS** - Common Vulnerability Scoring System ##  D **DAP** - Digital Adoption Plateform **DAST** - Dynamic testing. (Examples of such tools Qualys and Nessus) **DB** - Database **DC** - Direct Communication / Direct Connect **DDoS** - Distributed Denial-of-Service **DGW** - Default Gateway Weight Settings Protocol (DGW) **DHCP** - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol **DIO** - Distribution Initiated Opportunity **DLP** - Data Loss Protection **DMZ** - Demilitarized Zone [Demilitarized Zone **DNS** - Domain Name System **DoH** - DNS over HTTP **DoT** - DNS over TLS **DPIAs** - Data Protection Impact Assessment **DRP** - Disaster Recovery Plan **DSR** - Data Subject Rights ##  E **ELA** -  Enterprise License Agreement **EDPB** - European Data Protection Board **EDR** - Endpoint Detection and Response **EPP** - Endpoint Protection Platforms **EUSA** - End User Software Agreement ##  F **FIPS** - Federal Information Processing Standards **FPGA** - field-programmable gate array **FQDN** - Fully Qualified Domain Name **FRR** - FRRouting ##  G **GDPR** - General Data Protection Regulations **GKE** - Google Kubernetes Engine **GPU** - Graphic Processing Unit **GSLB** - Volterra’s Global Load Balancing **gRPC** - Google Remote Procedure Call ##  H **HIPAA** - Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act **HMAC** -Hash-based message authentication **HSL** - High-Speed Logging **HTTP** -  Hypertext Transfer **HTTPS** - Hypertext Transfer Protocol ##  I **IANA**  - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority **IBD** -  Integrated Bot Defense **ICO** - Information Commission Office **IDS** - Intrusion Detection System **IIoT -**  Industrial Internet of Things **ILM** - Information Lifecycle Management **IoT** - Internet of Things **IPAM**  - IP Address Management **IPSec** - Internet Protocol Security **IR** - Incidence Response **ISO** -  Standardization Organization **ISP**  - Internet Service Provider ##  J **JS** - Javascript ##  K **KMS** - Key Management Service / Key Management System **KPI** -  Key Performance Indicator **KV** - Key Value **k8s** -   Kubernetics ##  L **L7** -  Layer 7 - The application layer **LB** - Load Balancer **LBaaS** - Load Balancing as a Service **LDAP** -Lightweight Directory Access Protocol **LFI** - Local File Exclusion attack **LTM** - Local Traffic Manager ##  M **MAM** - Mobile Application Management **MDM** - Mobile Device Management **MFA** - Multi-Factor Authentication **MitM** - Man in the Middle **ML** - Machine Learning **MSA** - Master Service Agreement **MSP** - Managed Service Provider **MT** - Managed Tenant **mTLS** - Mutual Transport Layer Security **MUD** - Malicious User Detection **MUM** - Malicious User Mitigation ##  N **NAP** - Network access point **NAS** - Network-Attached Storage **NAT**  - Network Address Translation **NIC** - NetworkInterface Cards **NFV** - Network functions **NFVI** - Network functions virtualization **NPU** - Network Processing Units ##  O **OAS** -  OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) **OPA** - Open Policy Agent **OT** - Original Tenant **OWASP** - Open Web Application Security Project ##  P **PAAS** -  Platform as a service (PaaS **PBD** - Proactive Bot Defence. **PCI DSS** - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. **PBD** - Privacy by Design **PE** - Portable executable **PFS** - Perfect Forward Secrecy **PIA** - Privacy Impact Assessments **PII** - Personally identifiable information **POP** - Point of  Presence ##  Q **QoS  _-_**  Quality of Service ##  R **RBAC** - Role based Access control **RCE** - Remote Code Execution **RDP**  - Remote Desktop Protocol **RE** -  Routing Engine, Regional Edges **REST** - Representational State Transfer \*[[Rest API -Representational State Transfer]]\* **RFI** -    Request For Information OR Remote File Inclusion vulnerability attack **RFP** - Request for Proposal **RPC** - Remote Procedure Call **RSA** – (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem **RTT** - Round Trip Time ##  S **SAM** - Security Accounts Manager **SAML** - Security Assertion Markup Language **SCIM** - System for Cross-domain Identity Management **SCP** - Secure Copy Protocol **SCP** - Server Communication Proxy **SDC** - F5 Security and Distributed Cloud **SDK** - Software Development Kit **SDN** - Software Defined Network **SE** - Solutions Engineer **SIEM** - Security Information & Event Management **SLA** -  Service Level Availability **SLED** -State,Local Government and Education **SLI** - Service Level Indicator **SNAT**  - Source Network Address Translation **SOC** - Security Operations Center **SP** - Service Provider **SPK** - Service Proxy for Kubernetes **SRE** - Site reliability engineering **SRT** -  Security Research Team at F5 **SSD** - Solid State Drive **SSL** - Secure Sockets Layer **SSO** - Single Sign On **SSRF** -  Server-side request forgery **STRIDE** - Spoofing, Tampering,Repudiation,Information Leakage, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege (a TMA Model) ##  T **TCL** -  Tool Command Language **TCP** -  [Transmission Control Protocol **TDM** - Technical Decision Maker **TLS** -  Transport layer Security **TMA** - Threat Model Assessment **TO** - Tenant Owner **TOCTOU** - Time of Check vs Time of Use **TOI** -  Transfer of Information **TTFB** - Time to First Bit **TTL** - Time to Live ##  U **UAM** - User Access Management **UI** - User Interface **URI** - Uniform Resource **URL** - Uniform Resource Locator **UX** - User Experience ##  V **VER** - Volterra Edge Router **VES** - Volterra Edge Services **VIF** - virtual interface **VIP** - Virtual IP address **VM** - Virtual Machine **Vnet** -  Virtual network **VPC** - Virtual Private Cloud **VPN** - Virtual Private Network **VRS** - Volterra Rules Set ##  W **WAAP** - Web Application& API Protection **WAF** - Web application firewall **WPA3** - Wi-Fi Alliance Access 3 ##  X **XML** - Extensible Markup Language [XML - Wikipedia]([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML)) **XSS** - Cross Site Scripting **XSRF** - Cross-Site Request Forgery, also known as CSRF ##  Y ##  Z **ZTNA** -Zero Trust Network Access **ZTP** - Zero-Touch Provisioning **ZTS** - Zero Trust Security ---
**Author:** ![monteenbysk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@monteenbysk](https://community.f5.com/u/monteenbysk)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/2 "2022-07-12T18:09:52Z")
Dina, here are 10 more you can add: BDM -- Business Decision Maker IANA -- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IoT -- Internet of Things IIoT -- Industrial Internet of Things IPAM -- IP Address Management ISP -- Internet Service Provider NAT -- Network Address Translation QoS -- Quality of Service SNAT -- Source Network Address Translation TDM -- Technical Decision Maker Cheers, Monte ---
**Author:** ![DinaS](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/dinas/32/11665_2.png) [@DinaS](https://community.f5.com/u/DinaS)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/3 "2022-07-13T10:54:33Z")
@monteenbysk  thanks Monte, I updated the list ---
**Author:** ![Aubree\_Andersen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Aubree\_Andersen](https://community.f5.com/u/Aubree_Andersen)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/4 "2022-07-17T21:16:47Z")
Love this acronym list - helpful to the customer! A few acronyms for the list from my acronym library: Access Control List (ACL) Application Delivery Optimization (ADO) Application Layer Gateway (ALG) [BIG-IP] Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) FRRouting (FRR) High-Speed Logging (HSL) Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Mobile Device Management (MDM) Mobile Application Management (MAM) Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) Global Points of Presence (PoPs) Solid State Drive (SSD) Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) Cheers! -Aubree Andersen ---
**Author:** ![DinaS](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/dinas/32/11665_2.png) [@DinaS](https://community.f5.com/u/DinaS)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/5 "2022-09-13T08:22:20Z")
Thanks  @Aubree_Andersen   added your acronyms to list ---
**Author:** ![AndyK](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/andyk/32/1020_2.png) [@AndyK](https://community.f5.com/u/AndyK)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/acronyms/69971/6 "2023-12-01T15:01:35Z")
Very useful! Just FYI, (grammar nerd alert) these are abbreviations. Only a few are acronyms. Only abbreviations that are pronounced as a word are acronyms.  For example AWOL is an acroynm but FBI is an abbreviation.