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Acronyms index

Acronym	Expansion	Description
ACK	ACKnowledgement
ACL	Access Control List
APK	Alpine Package Keeper	Package manager used by Alpine Linux
APT	Advanced Package Tool	Package manager used by Debian Linux
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AV	AntiVirus
AVR	Audio/Video Receiver
AWS	Amazon Web Services
BASH	Bourne Again SHell
BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
BOINC	Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BSoD	Blue Screen of Death
BYOD	Bring Your Own Device
CLI	Command Line Interface
CMS	Content Management System
CN	Canonical Name
CN	Common Name
COTS	Commercial Off-The-Shelf	Available as-is, not optimized for specific scopes or objectives
CSMA	Carrier-Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CD	Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSP	Cloud Service Provider
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
CSS	Cross-Site Scripting
CVE	Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
CVS	Concurrent Versioning System
DBMS	Data Base Management System
DKIM	DomainKeys Identified Mail
EEPROM	Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
FIFO	First In First Out
FILO	First In Last Out
FS	FileSystem
FW	FireWall
GNU	Gnu is Not Unix
GPG	Gnu Privacy Guard
GUI	Graphical User Interface
IaC	Infrastructure as Code
IP	Internet Protocol
IPvX	Internet Protocol version X
ISP	Internet Service Provider
JDK	Java Development Kit
JRE	Java Runtime Engine
LAN	Local Area Network
LED	Light Emitting Diode
LIFO	Last In First Out
M2COTS	Mass Market COTS	Widely available COTS products
PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
ROM	Read-Only Memory
RPM	Revolutions Per Minute
RPM	RPM Package Manager	Package management system used by Linux distributions like Red Hat, (open)SuSE and Fedora
SQL	Structured Query Language
TCP	Transport Control Protocol
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UFW	Uncomplicated FireWall
USB	Universal Serial Bus
VIM	VI iMproved
WAN	Wide Area Network
WiMAX	Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network
XML	eXtensible Markup Language