| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| CSMS | Cyber Security Management System |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
| ECC | Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
| ECDH | Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman |
| ECDSA | Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm |
| GDS | Global Discovery Server |
| HMAC | Hash-based Message Authentication Code |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| JWT | JSON Web Token |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| NIST | National Institute of Standard and Technology |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| RSA | Rivest, Shamir, Adleman, public key algorithm for signing or encryption, |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm (Multiple versions exist SHA1, SHA256,…) |
| SKS | Security Key Server |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| UA | Unified Architecture |
| UACP | Unified Architecture Connection Protocol |
| UADP | Unified Architecture Datagram Protocol |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| XML | Extensible Mark-up Language |