| ACPO | Association of Chief Police Officers
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| AWF | (Europol) Analysis Work File
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| BCS | BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT (British Computer Society)
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| BERR | Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (now BIS)
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| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol
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| BIS | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (formerly BERR)
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| Botnet | Collection of compromised computers, individually called bots or zombies, running malicious programs that allow them to be controlled remotely; commonly used to launch DDoS attacks.
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| CCDCOE | (NATO) Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn
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| CCS | (UK) Civil Contingencies Secretariat
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| CDMA | (NATO) Cyber Defence Management Authority
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| CEDEFOP | European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
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| CEENet | Central and Eastern European Networking Association
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| CEPOL | European Police College
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| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team
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| CESG | Communications and Electronic Security Group
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| CII | Critical Information Infrastructure
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| CIIP | Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
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| CIWIN | Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network
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| CNI | Critical National Infrastructure
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| COBRA | Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
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| CPNI | (UK) Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
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| CPS | Crown Prosecution Service
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| CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Response Team (now synonymous with CERT)
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| CSIRTUK | Combined Security Incident Response Team (UK)
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| CSOC | (UK) Cyber Security Operations Centre in GCHQ
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| CSS | (UK) Cyber Security Strategy
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| CST | Council for Science and Technology
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| DCLG | Department for Communities and Local Government
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| DDoS | Distributed denial of service. A DDoS attack is launched by means of compromised systems (typically controlled via botnets) designed to overwhelm particular servers or networks by flooding them with packets of information.
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| DECC | Department of Energy and Climate Change
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| DEFRA | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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| DfT | Department for Transport
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| DH | Department of Health |
| DHS | (US) Department of Homeland Security
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| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DTIO | Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations
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| EC | European Community |
| ECCP | European CyberCrime Platform
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| ECI | European Critical Infrastructure
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| ECRRG | Electronic Communications Resilience and Response Group
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| EEA | European Economic Area
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| EGC | European Government CERT Group
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| EISAS | European Information Sharing and Alert System
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| EMCDDA | European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
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| ENISA | European Network and Information Security Agency
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| EPCIC | European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
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| EP3R | European Public Private Partnership for Resilience
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| EU | European Union |
| Europol | European Police Office
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| FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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| FEMA | (US) Federal Emergency Management Agency
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| FIPR | Foundation for Information Policy Research
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| FIRST | Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams
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| FORTH | Foundation of Research and Technology, Heraklion (Crete)
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| FSIE | Financial Services Information Exchange
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| FSISAC | Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Centre
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| GCHQ | Government Communications Headquarters
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| GovCertUK | Government CERT UK: the Government CERT for the public sector system
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| GSI | Government Secure Internet
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| HMG | Her Majesty's Government
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| HO | Home Office |
| HTCC | (Europol) High Tech Crime Centre
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| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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| I-CROS | Internet Crime Reporting Online System
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| I-FOREX | Internet and Forensic Expertise
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| ICS | Institute of Computer Science, part of FORTH
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| ICT | Information and Communication Technology
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| IGF | (UN) Internet Governance Forum
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| IPPR | (UK) Institute for Public Policy Research
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| ISSA-UK | Information Systems Security Association
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| ISAC | Information Sharing and Analysis Centre
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| ISP | Internet Service Provider
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| IWWN | International Watch and Warning Network
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| JANET | Joint Academic Network
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| JCNSS | Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
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| Lisbon | See Treaty of Lisbon
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| Malware | Malicious software
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| MoD | Ministry of Defence |
| MoJ | Ministry of Justice |
| MS | Member State(s) (of the European Union)
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| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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| NCFTA | National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance
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| NCIRC | NATO Computer Incident Response Capability
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| NHCTU | National Hi-tech Crime Unit (now transferred to SOCA)
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| NIS | Network and Information Security
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| NSA | (US) National Security Agency
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| NSS | (UK) National Security Strategy
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| OCS | (UK) Office of Cyber Security
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| OCTA | Organised Crime Threat Assessment
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| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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| OFCOM | (UK) Office of Communications
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| OFT | (UK) Office of Fair Trading
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| OHIM | Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
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| PCCIP | (US) President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
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| PCI | Payment Card Industry |
| PPP | Public private partnership
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| PSTN | (UK) Public Switched Telephone Network
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| Rootkit | A software system that consists of one or more programs designed to obscure the fact that the system has been compromised
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| SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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| SEPA | Single European Payment Area
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| SIRT | Security Incident Response Team
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| SMEs | Small and Medium Enterprises
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| SOCA | Serious Organised Crime Agency
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| SOPs | standard operating procedures
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| TEC | Treaty establishing the European Community
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| TERENA | Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
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| TEU | Treaty on European Union
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| TFEU | Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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| TISCA | Telecommunications Industry Security Advisory Council
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| Treaty of Lisbon | The Treaty between the Member States, signed in Lisbon on 13 Lisbon December 2007, amending the TEU, and amending the TEC and re-naming it the TFEU
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| UKTI | UK Trade & Investment
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| VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol
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| WARP | Warning, Advice and Reporting Point
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| Zombies | Another word for bots; see Botnet
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