Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

State of the Practice of Intrusion Detection Technologies

Appendix C Acronyms  

 

AAFID
An Architecture For Intrusion Detection (using autonomous agents)  

 

AFCERT
Air Force CERT  

 

AFRL
Air Force Research Laboratory  

 

AFIWC
Air Force Information Warfare Center  

 

ANSA
Adaptive Network Security Alliance (ISS)  

 

API
application program interface  

 

ASD
attack signature detection  

 

ASIM
Automated Security Incident Measurement  

 

CCI
Common Content Inspection (Checkpoint)  

 

CIDDS
Common Intrusion Detection Director System  

 

CERT/CC
CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University  

 

CIAC
Computer Incident Advisory Capability  

 

CIDF
Common Intrusion Detection Framework  

 

CIO
Chief Information Officer  

 

CISL
Common Intrusion Specification Language  

 

CLIPS
C Language Integrated Production System  

 

CMDS
Computer Misuse Detection System  

 

CMU
Carnegie Mellon University  

 

CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture  

 

COTS
Commercial off the shelf  

 

CSI
Computer Security Institute  

 

CSIRT
Computer Security Incident Response Team  

 

CVE
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, also known as Common Vulnerability Enumeration  

 

DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  

 

DMZ
demilitarized zone  

 

DNS
domain name system  

 

EMERALD
Event Monitoring Enabling Responses to Anomalous Live Disturbances  

 

FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation  

 

FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface  

 

FTP
file transfer protocol  

 

GAO
General Accounting Office  

 

GOTS
Government off the shelf  

 

HTTP
hyper-text transfer protocol  

 

ICSA
International Computer Security Association  

 

ID
intrusion detection  

 

IDES
Intrusion Detection Expert System  

 

IDS
intrusion detection system  

 

IDT
Intrusion Detection Tool  

 

ID SC
Intrusion Detection Systems Consortium (ICSA)  

 

ID WG
Intrusion Detection Working Group (IETF)  

 

IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force  

 

IS
Information system  

 

ISP
Internet service provider  

 

ISS
Internet Security Systems  

 

JAM
Java Agents for Meta-Learning  

 

NASA
National Air and Space Administration  

 

NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization  

 

NFR
Network Flight Recorder  

 

NIDES
Network Intrusion Detection Expert System  

 

NSA
National Security Agency  

 

NSTAT
Network STAT  

 

OPSEC
Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity (Checkpoint)  

 

PI
principal investigator  

 

RAID
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (conference)  

 

SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation  

 

SANS
System Administrator and Network Security organization  

 

SEI
Software Engineering Institute  

 

STAT
State Transition Analysis Technology  

 

TCP
transmission control protocol  

 

USTAT
UNIX STAT  

 

VPN
virtual private network  

 


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