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21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies

Transportation Management Center Information Technology Security

List of Acronyms

ACL Access Control List

ATO Authority to Operate

ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization

AVL Automatic Vehicle Location

BIA Business Impact Analysis

BYOD bring-your-own-devices

CERT Computer Emergency Response Teams

CIS Center for Internet Security

CISA Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

CRR Cybersecurity Resilience Reviews

CSC Critical Security Controls

CSF Cybersecurity Framework

DEP Data Execution Prevention

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DLP data loss prevention

DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance

DMS Dynamic Message Signs

DMZ Demilitarized Zone

DNS Domain Name System

DOT Department of Transportation

EU the European Union

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GDPR General Data Protection Regulation

HAR Highway Advisory Radio

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICS Industrial Control Systems

IFB Invitation for Bid

IoT Internet of Things

IPS Intrusion Prevention Systems

IRM Information Rights Management

ISAC Information Sharing and Analysis Centers

ITS Intelligent Transportation System

LAN Local Area Network

LCS Lane Control Signs

LLC Limited Liability Company

LMS Learning Management System

MAC Media Access Control

MFA Multi-Factor Authentication

MIL Maturity Indicator Level

NAC Network Access Control

NCC-SWG NIST's Cloud Computing Security Working Group

NCI National Council of ISACs

NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation

NICCS National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies

NIPP National Infrastructure Protection Plan

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OPSEC Operational Security

OS Operating System

OT Operations Technology

PaaS Platform as a Service

PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards

RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

RMF Risk Management Framework

RPO Recovery Point Objective

RSS Really Simple Syndication

RTO Recovery Time Objective

SaaS Software as a Service

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol

SIEM Security Information and Event Management

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SP Special Publication

SPF Sender Policy Framework

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TLS Transport Layer Security

TMC Traffic Management Center

UDP User Datagram Protocol

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

V2I Vehicle-to-Infrastructure

VLAN Virtual Local Access Network

VM Virtual Machines

VPN Virtual Private Network

WAF Web Application Firewalls

WIDS Wireless Intrusion Detection System

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

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