Glossary

• AAA
  Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
• AD
  Active Directory
• ADOM
  Administrative Domain
• AES
  Advanced Encryption Standard
• AMI
  Amazon Machine Image
• AP
  Access Point
• API
  Application Programming Interface
• APN
  Access Point Name
• APT
  Advanced Persistent Threat
• ATP
  Advanced Threat Protection
• AV
  Antivirus
• AVP
  Attribute Value Pairs
• AWS
  Amazon Web Service
• BGP
  Border Gateway Protocol
• C&C
  Command and Control
• CA
  Certificate Authority
• CASI
  Cloud Access Security Inspection
• CBC
  Cipher Block Chaining
• CHAP
  Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
• CIDR
  Classless Inter-Domain Routing
• CLI
  Command Line Interface
• CN
  Common Name
• CoA
  Change of Authorization
• CPU
  Central Processing Unit
• CRL
  Certificate Revocation List
• CSR
  Certificate Signing Request
• CSV
  Comma Separated Value
• CVE
  Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
• DC
  Domain Controller, Direct Current
• DES
  Data Encryption Standard
• DH
  Diffie-Hellman
• DHCP
  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DLL
  Dynamic-Link Library
• DLP
  Data Loss Prevention
• DN
  Distinguished Name
• DNAT
  Destination Network Address Translation
• DNS
  Domain Name System
• DSCP
  Differentiated Services Code Point
• DSRI
  Disable Server Response Inspection
• DTLS
  Datagram Transport Layer Security
• EA
  E-mail Address
• EAPOL
  Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN (Local Area Network)
• EC
  Endpoint Control
• EC2
  Elastic Compute Cloud
• EGP
  Exterior Gateway Protocol
• EMS
  Enterprise Management Server
• ESD
  Electrostatic Discharge
• ESP
  Encapsulated Security Payload
• FAZ
  FortiAnalyzer
• FCT
  FortiClient
• FDN
  FortiGuard Distribution Network
• FDS
  FortiGuard Distribution Servers
• FG
  FortiGate
• FGFM
  FortiGate-FortiManager
• FMG
  FortiManager
• FQDN
  Fully Qualified Domain Name
• FSA
  FortiSandbox
• FSSO
  Fortinet Single Sign-On
• FTP
  File Transfer Protocol
• GCF
  Gatekeeper Confirm
• GPRS
  General Packet Radio Service
• GRE
  Generic Routing Encapsulation
• GTP
  GPRS Tunneling Protocol
• GUI
  Graphical User Interface
• GUID
  Globally Unique Identifier
• HA
  High Availability
• hcache
  Hard Cache
• HDD
  Hard Disk Drive
• HTML
  HyperText Markup Language
• HTTP
  HyperText Transfer Protocol
• I/O
  Input / Output
• IBP
  Identity-based Policy
• ICAP
  Internet Content Adaptation Protocol
• ICMP
  Internet Control Message Protocol
• IGP
  Interior Gateway Protocol
• IKE
  Internet Key Exchange
• IMAP
  Internet Message Access Protocol
• IOC
  Indicators of Compromise
• IP
  Internet Protocol
• IPS
  Intrusion Prevention System
• IPsec
  Internet Protocol Security
• ISDB
  Internet Service Database
• ISP
  Internet Service Provider
• IV
  Initialization Vector
• JSON
  JavaScript Object Notation
• L2TP
  Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
• LACP
  Link Aggregation Control Protocol
• LAN
  Local Area Network
• LDAP
  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• MAC
  Media Access Control
• MD5
  Message Digest 5
• MGCP
  Media Gateway Controller Protocol
• MIB
  Management Information Base
• MMC
  Microsoft Management Console
• MSCHAP
  Microsoft Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
• MSS
  Maximum Segment Size
• NAC
  Network Access Control or Compliance
• NAS
  Network Access Server
• NAT
  Network Address Translation
• NAT-PT
  Network Address Translation (NAT) Port Translation
• NDcPP
  Network Device Collaborative Protection Profile
• NGFW
  Next-Generation Firewall
• NNTP
  Network News Transfer Protocol
• NOC
  Network Operations Center
• NPU
  Network Processing Unit
• NTLM
  NT LAN Manager
• NTP
  Network Time Protocol
• OCSP
  Online Certificate Status Protocol
• OFTP
  Odette File Transfer Protocol
• ONC-RPC
  Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
• OSPF
  Open Shortest Path First
• OTP
  One-time Password
• OU
  Organization Unit
• OUI
  Organizationally Unique Identifier
• OVF
  Open Virtualization Format
• PAP
  Password Authentication Protocol
• PAT
  Port Address Translation
• PEM
  Power Entry Module
• PFS
  Perfect Forward Secrecy
• PKCS
  Public Key Cryptography Standards
• PKI
  Public Key Infrastructure
• PoE
  Power over Ethernet
• POP3
  Post Office Protocol 3
• PPP
  Point-to-Point Protocol
• PPPoE
  Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
• PPTP
  Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
• PSK
  Pre-Shared Key
• RADIUS
  Remote Authentication Dial-In User
• RAID
  Redundant Array of Independent Disks
• RAM
  Random Access Memory
• RAS
  Registration, Admission, and Status
• RBAC
  Role Based Access Control
• RCF
  Registration Confirm
• RDP
  Remote Desktop Protocol
• REST
  Representational State Transfer
• RFC
  Remote Function Call
• RSH
  Remote Shell
• RSSO
  RADIUS Single Sign-On
• RTM
  Real-Time Monitor
• RTP
  Real-Time Protection
• RTSP
  Real-Time Streaming Protocol
• SAN
  Storage Area Network
• SAP
  Shelf Alarm Panel
• SCEP
  Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
• SCP
  Secure Copy
• SCVP
  Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol
• SDK
  Software Development Kit
• SDN
  Software-Defined Networking
• SFTP
  Secure (or SSH) File Transfer Protocol
• SHA1
  Secure Hash Algorithm 1
• SIP
  Session Initiation Protocol
• SMTP
  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SNAT
  Secure Network Address Translation
• SNI
  Server Name Indication
• SNMP
  Simple Network Management Protocol
• SOC
  Security Operations Center
• SQL
  Structured Query Language
• SSH
  Secure Shell
• SSID
  Service Set Identifier
• SSL
  Secure Sockets Layer
• SSO
  Single Sign-On
• TACACS+
  Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System
• Tcl
  Tool Command Language
• TCP
  Transmission Control Protocol
• TFTP
  Trivial File Transfer Protocol
• TLS
  Transport Layer Security
• TNS
  Transparent Network Substrate
• TTL
  Time-to-live
• UDP
  User Datagram Protocol
• UID
  Unique Identifier
• URI
  Uniform Resource Identifier
• URL
  Uniform Resource Locator
• UTM
  Unified Threat Management
• UUID
  Universally Unique Identifier
• VDOM
  Virtual Domain
• VHD
  Virtual Hard Disk
• VIP
  Virtual Internet Protocol
• VLAN
  Virtual Local Area Network
• VM
  Virtual Machine
• VMDK
  Virtual Machine Disk
• VoIP
  Voice over Internet Protocol
• VPC
  Virtual Private Cloud
• VPN
  Virtual Private Network
• VSA
  Vendor Specific Attribute
• WAF
  Web Application Firewall
• WAN
  Wide Area Network
• WCCP
  Web Cache Communication Protocol
• WIDS
  Wireless Intrusion Detection System
• WPA
  Wi-Fi Protected Access
• WPA2
  Wi-Fi Protected Access II
• WSDL
  Web Services Description Language
• WTP
  Wireless Transaction Protocol
• XAuth
  Extended Authentication
• XML
  eXtensible Markup Language
• XSS
  Cross-site Scripting
• XVA
  XenServer Virtual Appliance