- A&M System: The Texas A&M University System
- APT: Advanced Persistent Threat
- CAB: Change Advisory Board
- CEO: Chief Executive Officer
- CIO: Chief Information Officer
- CIS: Center for Internet Security
- CISPO: Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer
- CNSS: Committee on National Security Systems
- CPO: Chief Privacy Officer
- CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- CVSS: Common Vulnerability Scoring System
- CWE: Common Weakness Enumeration
- DIR: Texas Department of Information Resources
- Division of IT: Division of Information Technology
- DoD: Department of Defense
- DoIT: Division of Information Technology
- DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
- DNS: Domain Name System
- DNSSEC: Domain Name System Security Extensions
- FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
- FISMA: Federal Information Security Modernization Act
- FTP: File Transfer Protocol
- GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
- HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
- IP: Internet Protocol
- IRC: Internet Relay Chat
- ISE: Information Sharing Environment
- IT: Information Technology
- ITSAU: IT Standards for All Users
- ITSOC: Information Technology Standards for Owners and Custodians
- LAN: Local-Area Network
- MFA: Multi-factor Authentication
- MS: Microsoft
- MS RCP or MSRCP: Microsoft Remote Procedural Call
- NetBIOS: Network Basic Input/Output System
- NAT: Network Address Translation
- NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NSA: National Security Agency
- NTP: Network Time Protocol
- NVD: National Vulnerability Database
- OIS: Office of Information Security
- OVAL: Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
- OMB: Office of Management and Budget
- PATS: Permitted Authorized Time Sources
- PIA: Privacy Impact Assessment
- PII: Personally Identifiable Information
- POP or PoP: Point of Presence
- REN-ISAC: Research Education Networking Information Sharing & Analysis Center
- SAOP: Senior Agency Official for Privacy
- Secure FTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
- SCAP: Security Content Automation Protocol
- SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
- SIEM: Security Information and Event Managements
- SMB: Server Message Block
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SORN: System of Records Notice
- SPECTRIM: Statewide Portal for Enterprise Cybersecurity Threat, Risk, and Incident Management
- SSID: Service Set Identifiers
- SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
- System: The Texas A&M University System
- TAC: Texas Administrative Code
- TAMU: Texas A&M University
- TAMU-CC: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- TAMU System: The Texas A&M University System
- TAMUS: The Texas A&M University System
- TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
- Texas A&M University System: The Texas A&M University System
- Texas A&M System: The Texas A&M University System
- Texas DIR: Texas Department of Information Resources
- TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TGC: Texas Government Code
- TLS: Transport Layer Security
- UDP: User Data Protocol
- University: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
- US PATRIOT Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
- USB: Universal Serial Bus
- USGCB: United States Government Configuration Baseline
- UTC: University Technology Council
- or UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
- VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol
- VPN: Virtual Private Network
- WAN: Wide-Area Network