List of acronyms

Acronym	Domain	Meaning
ACE	ICT	Adaptive Communication Environment
ADSL	ICT	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AFAP	Organisational	As Fast As Possible
ALARA	Risk	As Low As Reasonably Achievable
ALM	ICT	Application-Layer Multicast
ALMI	ICT	Application-Layer Multicast Infrastructure
ALSP	ICT, Simulation	Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
API	ICT	Application Programming Interface
ATC (1)	Transport	Air Traffic Control
ATC (2)	Transport	Automated Train Control
ATM (1)	Financial	Automated Teller Machine
ATM (2)	ICT	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATO	Transport	Automated Train Operation
ATP	Transport	Automated Train Protection
BTP	ICT	Banana Tree Protocol
CBM	Organisational Security	Confidence Building Measure(s)
CBR(S)	ICT	Constant Bit-Rate (Service)
CBRN	Threat CIP	Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
CBRNE	Threat CIP	Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives
CBRNED	Threat CIP	Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives and Digital/Cyber
CC	ICT	Communication Controller
CCB	CIP ICT	Cybersecurity Capacity Building
CCF	CIP	Common Cause Failure
CE	ICT	Communication Element
CEII	CIP Energy	Critical Energy Infrastructure Information
CEIP	CIP Energy	Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection
CEO	Organisational	Chief Executive Officer
CER	CIP	Critical Entities Resilience Directive (EU) 2022/2557
CERT	ICT Security	Computer Emergency Response Team
CI	CIP Security	Critical Infrastructure
CICI	CIP ICT Security	Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
CII	CIP ICT Security	Critical Information Infrastructure
CIID	CIP	Critical Infrastructure Incident Database
CIIP	CIP ICT Security	Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
CIIP	ICT	(in this context avoid confusion with) Civil Initiatives for Internet Policy
CIIPR	CIP ICT Security	Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
CIIR	CIP CIR ICT Security	Critical Information Infrastructure Resilience
CIP	CIP Security	Critical Infrastructure Protection
CIPI	CIP Security	Critical Infrastructure Protection Information
CIPMA	CIP	Critical Infrastructure Critical Infrastructure Program for Modelling and Analysis
CIP PoCI	CIP Security	CIP Point of Contact
CIR	CIP CIR Security	Critical Infrastructure Resilience
CIS	ICT Security	Cybersecurity Information Sharing
CISA	ICT Security Organisational	Cyber Information Sharing Agreement
CISO	ICT Security Organisational	Chief Information Security Officer
CIWIN	EU	Critical Infrastructure Warning and Information Network
CL	ICT	Communication Layer
CMF	CIP	Common Mode Failure
CNI	CIP	Critical National Infrastructure
CNII	CIP	Critical National Information Infrastructure
COMAH	CIP	Control of Major Accident Hazards
COTS	Organisational	Commercial off-the-shelf
CPN	ICT	Cognitive Packet Network
CPS	CIP	Cyber Physical System
CRM	Organisational	Customer Relationship Management
CSIP	ICT Security	Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan (USA)
CSIRT	ICT Security	Computer Security Incident Response Team
CSO (1)	Security Organisational	Chief Security Officer
CSO (2)	Water	Combined Sewer Overflow
CTI	ICT Security	Cyber Threat Intelligence
CTIP	CIP ICT	Critical Telecommunication Infrastructure Protection
CyCLONe	EU CIIP	Cyber EU Cyber Crisis Liaison Organisation Network
DCI	CIP Security	(US) Defense Critical Infrastructure
DCS (1)	ICT	Digital Communication System
DCS (2)	ICT	Distributed Control System
DDoS	ICT	Distributed Denial of Service
DES (1)	ICT Security	Data Encryption Standard
DES (2)	Simulation	Discrete Event Simulation
DFS	ICT	Depth-First Search
DIESIS	EU Simulation	Design of an Interoperable European federated Simulation network for critical InfraStructures
DIS	Simulation	Distributed Interactive Simulation
DOC	Organisational	Direct Operating Cost
DORA	EU CIIP	Digital Operational Resilience Act EU 2022/2254 (financial institutions)
DoS	ICT	Denial of Service
DSS	Organisational	Decision Support System
DVE	ICT	Distributed Virtual Environment
DVMRP	ICT	Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
ECI	EU CIP	European Critical Infrastructure
ECIC	CIP	Exceptionally Critical Infrastructure Conditions
EII	ICT	EISAC Interoperability Infrastructure
EIII	ICT	EII Interface
EIIM	ICT	EISAC Interoperability Infrastructure Middleware
e-IRG	EU	e-Infrastructures Reflection Group
EISAC	EU Simulation	European Infrastructures Simulation and Analysis Centre
EMP	Threat	Electromagnetic Pulse
ENISA	EU	European Network and Information Security Agency
EPCIP	EU CIP	European Program on Critical Infrastructures Protection
ERA	EU	European Research Area
ERNCIP	EU	European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection
ESFRI	EU	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
EUCI	EU ICT	EU Classified Information (do not confuse with ECI)
EWE	Threat CIP	Extreme Weather Event
FACTS	Energy	Flexible AC Transmission Systems
FAN	ICT	Field Area Network
FC	ICT	Federation Controller
FCM	Simulation	Federation Control Module
FMS&A	Simulation	Federated Modelling, Simulation and Analysis
FOM	Simulation	Federation Object Model
FONT	Simulation	Federation Ontology
FTP	ICT	File Transfer Protocol
GIS	ICT	Geographical Information System
GNSS	Transport ICT	Global Navigation Satellite System (GPS, Galileo, Beidou, Glonass)
GPS	Transport ICT	Global Positioning System
GSM	ICT	Global System for Mobile Communications (Groupe Spéciale Mobile)
GSM-R	Transport	GSM for Railways
GUI	ICT	Graphical User Interface
HAN	ICT	Home Area Network
HARA	ICT	Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
HAZOP	Risk	Hazard and Operability Study
HILP	Risk	High Impact, Low Probability
HLA	Simulation	High Level Architecture
HMI	ICT	Human-Machine Interface
HMTP	ICT	Host Multicast Tree Protocol
HTTP	ICT	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	ICT	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
HVAC	various	Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
ICE	EU CIP	Infrastrutture Critiche Europee
ICS	ICT	Industrial Control System
ICT	ICT	Information and Communication Technolog(y)(ies)
IDT	CIP	Infrastructure Data Taxonomy
IEMI	Security	Intentional Electromagnetic Interference
IONT	Simulation	Infrastructure Ontology
IP (1)	ICT	Internet Protocol
IP (2)	CIP	(DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection
IPC	ICT	Inter-process Communication
ISAC	ICT Security Organisational	Information Sharing and Analysis Centre
ISAO	ICT Security Organisational	Information Sharing and Analysis Organisation
IT	ICT	Information Technology
JESS	ICT	Java Expert System Shell
JIMP	Organisational	Joint, Interagency, Multinational and Public
JVM	ICT	Java Virtual Machine
KBS	ICT	Knowledge Base System
LAMPS	Simulation	Language for Agent-based Modelling of Processes and Scenarios
LAN	ICT	Local Area Network
MAC	ICT	Media Access Control
MAIFI	Service, Power	Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index
MANET	ICT	Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
MISP	ICT Security	Malware Information Sharing Platform
MPLS	ICT	Multiprotocol Label Switching
MS	EU	Member State(s)
MST	ICT	Minimum Spanning Tree
MS&A	Simulation	Modelling, Simulation and Analysis
MTBF	Service	Mean Time Between Failures
MTTR	Service	Mean Time To Repair
NAC	ICT	Network Access Control
NAT	ICT	Network Address Translation
NATECH	CIP, EU	Natural Hazard Triggering Technological Disasters
NCI	CIP	National Critical Infrastructure
NCI&KA	CIP	National Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets
NERC	Energy	North American Electric Reliability Corporation
NGI	CIP	Next Generation Infrastructure
NIS	ICT CIIP	Network and Information System
NIS 2	ICT CIIP	Network and Information System Directive 2 (EU) 2022/2555
NNCEIP	CIP Energy	non-Nuclear Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection
NSA	Security	National Security Agency
NSTISSI	ICT	National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction
NTP	ICT	Network Time Protocol
OGSA	ICT	Open Grid Services Architecture
OS	ICT	Operating System
OSP	CIP Organisational	(CI) Operator Security Procedures
OWL	ICT	Web Ontology Language
P2P	ICT	Peer-To-Peer
PCII	CIP	Protected Critical Infrastructure Information
PCS	ICT	Process Control System
PDES	Simulation	Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
PDU	ICT	Protocol Data Unit
PESTLE	Organisational	Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental
PLC	ICT	Programmable Logic Controller
PN	ICT	Physical Node
PNeT	ICT	Physical Network
PNT	Transport ICT Service	Positioning, Navigation and Timing
POCBS	Threat CIP	Power Outages Caused By Squirrels
PoC	Organisational	Proof of Concept
PPC	Organisational	Public-Private Cooperation
PPP	Organisational	Public-Private Partnership
QoS	Service	Quality of Service
QRT	ICT	Queue Reader Thread
RA	Risk	Risk Assessment
RfO	Service	Reason for Outage
RNN	ICT	Random Neural Network
RO	ICT	Receive Order
RP	ICT	Rendezvous Point
RPC	ICT	Remote Procedure Call
RTI	Simulation	Run Time Infrastructure
RTT	ICT	Round-Trip Time
SAHARA	ICT	Secure-Aware Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
SAIDI	Service	System Average Interruption Duration Index
SAIFI	Service	System Average Interruption Frequency Index
SCADA	ICT	Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SLA	Service	Service Level Agreement
SLO	CIP Organisational	Security Liaison Officer
SOA	ICT	Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP	ICT	Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP-RPC	ICT	SOAP Remote Procedure Call
SOC	ICT Security Organisational	Security Operating Centre
SONT	Simulation	Simulator Ontology
SPT	ICT	Shortest Path Tree
SQL	ICT	Structured Query Language
SSA	CIP	Sector-Specific Agency
SSL	ICT	Secure Sockets Layer
SWRL	ICT	Semantic Web Rule Language
TAO	Rail	Trein Aantastende Onregelmatigheid (Train disturbance event)
TBCP	ICT	Tree Building Control Protocol
TCM	ICT	TCP Communication Module
TCP	ICT	Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP	ICT	Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
TETRA	ICT	TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
TIC	ICT	Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (ICT in Spanish)
TLP	Organisational Security	Traffic Light Protocol
TLS	ICT	Transport Layer Security
TMM	ICT	Time Management Module
TNCEIP	EU	Thematic Network on Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection
TPoC	EU	Technical Proof-of-Concept
TSO	ICT	Timestamp Order
UDM	ICT	UDP Communication Module
UDP	ICT	User Datagram Protocol
UML	ICT	Unified Modeling Language
VN	ICT	Virtual Node
VNet	ICT	Virtual Network
VSF	CIP	Vital Societal Functions
WAN	ICT	Wide Area Network
WARP	Organisational Security	Warning, Advice and Reporting Point
WP	EU	Work Package
WSDL	ICT	Web Services Description Language
XML	ICT	Extensible Markup Language
XSL	ICT	Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT	ICT	XSL Transformations
Yoid	ICT	Your Own Internet Distribution