ADF: Automatic Document Feeder
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
ASP: Active Server Pages
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B2B: Business-to-Business
BAP: Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
BAR: Base Address Registers
BCC: Blind Carbon Copy
BD: Blue-Ray Disc
BDM: Business Decision Maker
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System
BPI: British Phonographic Industry
Bps: Bits per second
CCITT: Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
ccTLD: Country code top-level domains
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIFS: Common Internet File System
CLI: Command-line Interface
CNG: Crypto Next Generation
COA: Certificate of Authenticity
Codec: Compressor/Decompressor
CompTIA: Computing Technology Industry Association
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRIA: Canadian Recording Industry Association
CRM: Customer Relationship Management
CSID: Called subscriber ID
CSP: Cryptographic Service Provider
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CSS: Content Scramble System
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
DAC: Dual Address Cycle
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML: Dynamic HTML
DIMS: Digital Identity Management Service
DLM: Distributed Lock Manager
DNS: Domain Name System
DOM: Document Object Model
DoS: Denial of Service
DPI: Dots per Inch
DRM: Digital Rights Management
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DSS: Digital Signature Standard
DTD: Document Type Definition
DUN: Dial-up Networking
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc
EAP: Extensible Authentication Protocol
EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface
EISA: Extended ISA
EULA: End User License Agreement
exFAT Extended file allocation table
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
Fps: Frames per second
FQDN: fully qualified domain name
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
GINA: Graphical Identification and Authorization
gTLD: Generic top-level domain
GUI: Graphical User Interface
GXA: Global XML Web Services Architecture
HD: High Definition
HDCP: High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
HDDVD: High Definition DVD
HDTV: High Definition Television
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HWID: Hardware Identifier
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICA: Independent Computer Architecture
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
ICP: Internet Content Provider
IDF: Intel Developer Forum
IDN: Internationalized Domain Name
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
IFPI: International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
IHV: Independent Hardware Vendor
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
IPSec: Internet Protocol Security
IPv4: Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6: Internet Protocol version 6
IRQ: Interrupt Request
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISATAP: Intrasite Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISV: Independent Software Vendor
ITU-T: International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP: Java Server Pages
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LLMNR: Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
LLMNR: Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
LZW: Lempel Ziv Welch (Compression algorithm)
MD4: Message Digest 4
MD5: Message Digest 5
MFD: Multi-Function Device
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
MLD: Multicast Listener Discovery
MPEG: Moving Pictures Experts Group
MTP: Media Transfer Protocol
NAP: Network Access Protection
NAT: Network Address Translation
NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification
NDS: Novell Directory Service
NetBIOS: Network basic input/output system
NGSCB: Next Generation Secure Computing Base
NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol
NUD: Neighbor Unreachability Detection
OCI: Oracle Call Interface
OCSP: Online Certificate Status Protocol
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection (OSI model)
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
P2P: Peer-to-peer
PAN: Personal Area Network
PANU: Personal Area Network User
PATA: Parallel ATA
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
PDA: Personal Digital Assistants
PEAP: Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PICS: Parental Internet Content Selection
PID: Product ID
PIN: Personal Identification Number
PNG: Portable Network Graphics
PnP: Plug and Play
POP: Post Office Protocol
POP3: Post Office Protocol 3
POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX
POST: Power on Self Test
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol
PVR: Personal Video Recorder
PXE: Preboot Execution Environment
PXE: Pre-boot Execution Environment
RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAS: Remote Access Service
RFC: Request for Comment
RIFF: Resource Interchange File Format
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
S/MIME: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
S/PDIF: Sony/Philips Digital Interface
S4U: Service-for-User
SACL: System Access Control List
SATA: Serial ATA
SBM: Subnet Bandwidth Management
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SDK: Software Development Kit
SDP: Session Description Protocol
SFM: Services for Macintosh
SGC: Server Gated Cryptography
SHA-1: Secure Hash Algorithm
SHTTP: Secure HTTP
SID: Security Identifier
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMB: Small and Medium scale Business
SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SoHo: Small Office Home Office
SP Platform: Software Protection Platform
SPA: Secure Password Authentication
SSI: Server Side Includes
SSID: Service Set Identifier
SSL/TLS: Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
STD: Security Tool Distributor
TCG: Trusted Computing Group
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TIME: Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions
TLD: Top-level domain
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TSID: Transmitting station ID
TSR: Terminate-and-stay-resident
UCS: Unicode Character System
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UEFI: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UFD: Universal Flash Device
UNC: Universal Naming Convention
UPS: Uninterruptible power supply
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UTF-8: Unicode Transmission Format 8
VAR: Value Added Reseller
VCCU: Sony VAIO Camera Capture Utility
VM: Virtual Machine
VPN: Virtual Private Network
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
WebDAV: Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WEC: Web Extender Client protocol
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
WPA2: Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
WPAD: Web Proxy AutoDiscovery
WYSIWYG: What-you-see-is-what-you-get
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XSL: XML Style Sheet
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