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CISM Certified Information Security Manager Acronyms

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1. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (USA)






2. Programmable Read-Only Memory






3. Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol






4. Multiprotocol label switching






5. Object request broker (ORB)






6. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks






7. Entity relationship diagram






8. Backbone network services






9. Database management system






10. Thousand delivered source instructions






11. False-acceptance rate






12. Internet relay chat






13. False-rejection rate






14. Information processing facility






15. IT Governance Institute






16. Integrated services digital network






17. Business process reengineering






18. Business-to-employee






19. Data terminal equipment






20. Metropolitan area network






21. Supply Chain Operations Reference






22. Platform for Internet content selection






23. Frequency-hopping spread spectrum






24. Mergers and acquisition






25. Simple Network Management Protocol






26. Decision support systems






27. Basic Input/Output System






28. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol






29. System generation






30. User acceptance testing






31. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol






32. Distributed Component Object Model (Microsoft)






33. Plain old telephone service






34. Extensible Business Reporting Language






35. Asynchronous Transfer Mode or automated teller machine






36. Service level management






37. Incident response management






38. Electronic commerce






39. Extended Binary-coded for Decimal Interchange Code






40. File Transfer Protocol






41. Computer Incident Advisory Capability






42. Chief information security officer






43. Identification






44. IT service management






45. Component Object Model/Distributed Component Object Model






46. Computer-assisted design






47. Uninterruptible power supply






48. Atomicity - consistency - isolation and durability






49. Capability Maturity Model Integration






50. Private branch (business) exchange