Acronym Definition
3DES Triple DES
ACE Access Control Entry
ACL Access Control List
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ACK ACKnowledgement
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
APIPA Automatic Private IP Address
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ccTLD country code Top Level Domain
CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHAP v2 Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol Version 2
CLI Command Line Interface
CN Common Name
CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

DACL Discretionary Access Control List
DC Domain Controller
DES Data Encryption Standard
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DN Distinguished Name
DNS Domain Name Service
DOD Department Of Defense
DORA DHCP mnemonic acronym
EAP Extendable Authentication Protocol
EFS Encrypting File System
ESE Extensible Storage Engine
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations
GC Global Catalog
GPO Group Policy Object
gTLD general Top Level Domain
HTML HyperText Markup Protocol
HOSTS Config file mapping IPs to FQDNs
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IAS Internet Authentication Service (AKA RADIUS)
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
ICF Internet Connection Firewall
ICMP Internet Control Messaging Protocol
ICS Internet Connection Sharing
ID10T Idiot (Pronounced ID - ten - "T")
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFAIK As Far As I Know
IIS Internet Information Service
IP Internet Protocol
ISA Internet Security & Acceleration Server
KDC Key Distribution Center
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid
KRB5 Kerberos
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LLC Logical Link Control
LMHOSTS Config file mapping IPs to NetBIOS names
MAC Media Access Control
MMC Microsoft Management Console (AKA Mickey Mouse Console)
MX Mail eXchange DNS record
NBT NetBIOS over TCP/IP
NetBIOS Network Basic Input Output System
NLB Network Load Balancing
NT Originally stood for New Technology, then was officially changed from an acronym to a noun
NTLM NT Lan Man (Manager)
OID Object ID
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
OU Organizational Unit
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PDCE Primary DC Emulator
PING Packet Internet Groper
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
POTS Plain Old Telephone System
PTR PoinTeR DNS resource record
RAID Redundant Array of Independent (Inexpensive) Devices (Drives)
RAM Random Access Memory
RDN Relative Distinguished Name
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RSA Algorithm for public-key encryption (Rivest Shamir Adleman)
RTFM Read The Fucking Manual
SACL System Access Control List
SAP Shiva Authentication Protocol
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SHA-1 Secure Hash Algorithm
SID Security ID
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SRV SeRVice DNS resource record
SSH Secure SHell
SSL Secure Socket Layer
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
UDP User Datagram Protocol
VLSM Variable Length Subnet Mask
WEP Wireless Encryption Protocol
WINS Windows internet Naming Service