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Comment by tzs | Hacker News Reader

The article and the comments here contain a lot of TLAs and the like that many will not be familiar with. Anyone want to expand some of these to save people a bunch of Googling/DDGing/Binging?

  AD AES AICPA CISO
  COSO CSO DEP FDE
  FIM IDS IR JAMF
  LDAP MDM OIDC SOC2
  SSO S/N WAF

I don't recall ever seeing a comment thread with that many such things.

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AD active directory

AES advanced encryption standard

AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

CISO chief information security officer

COSO risk management framework

CSO many things, probably chief security officer in this context

DEP data execution prevention

FDE full disk encryption

FIM file integrity monitoring

IDS intrusion detection system

IR incident response

JAMF apple device management

LDAP lightweight directory access protocol

MDM mobile device management

OIDC open id connect

SOC2 audit standard

SSO single sign on

S/N serial number

WAF web application firewall

Different DEP here. :) We're talking about the Apple Device Enrollment API.

Thanks, I hadn't yet made it through the full thread for context.

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