A list of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in the RiskSense platform.
The following table provides a list of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in RiskSense.
| Acronym | Term |
| 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| AF | Application Findings |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| CI | Configuration Item |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Database |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
| CVSS | Common Vulnerability Scoring System |
| CWE | Common Weakness Enumeration |
| DAST | Dynamic Application Security Testing |
| DB | Database |
| EV | Earned Value |
| FP | False Positive |
| HF | Host Finding |
| IAM | Identity & Access Management |
| ITIL | Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| KRI | Key Risk Indicator |
| ME | Manual Exploit |
| MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication |
| NVD | National Vulnerability Database |
| OSS | Open Source Software |
| OWASP | Open Web Application Security Project |
| OVA | Open Virtual Appliance |
| PCI | Payment Card Industry |
| PE | Privilege Escalation |
| PV | Planned Value |
| RA | Risk Acceptance |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| RBVM | Risk-Based Vulnerability Management |
| RCE | Remote Code Execution |
| RM | Remediation |
| ROSA | RiskSense On-Site Appliance |
| RS | RiskSense |
| RS³/RS3 | RiskSense Security Score |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SAST | Static Application Security Testing |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SNOW | ServiceNow |
| SPI | Schedule Performance Index |
| SU | Severity Update |
| SV | Schedule Variance |
| URbA/URBA | Update Remediation by Assessment |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VRR | Vulnerability Risk Rating |