| 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AIF | Application Interface Framework (SAP) |
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript & XML |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| ANT | Another Neat Tool |
| AOP | Aspect Oriented Programming |
| API | Appication Programming Interface |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| AS | Application Server |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AMX | (TIBCO) Active Matrix |
| BAM | Business Activity Monitoring |
| BDD | Behaviour Driven Development |
| BFA | Brute Force Attack |
| BI | Business Integration |
| BOM | Bill of Material |
| BPEL | Business Process Excecution Language |
| BPM | Business Process Modelling |
| BPMN | Business Process Modelling Notation |
| BRMS | Business Rules Management System |
| BSI | Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik |
| BW | (TIBCO) Business Works |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CC | Command & Control |
| CDI | Contexts and Dependency Injection |
| CEP | Complex Event Processing |
| CD | Continuous Delivery |
| CD | Continuous Deployment |
| CI | Continuous Integration |
| CIA | Confidentiality Integrity Availability |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Database |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CSRF | Cross-Site Request Forgery |
| CSV | Comma Separated Values |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilty Enumerator |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System |
| DAC | Discretionary Access Control |
| DAST | Dynamic Application Security Testing |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DD | Deployment Descriptor |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| DI | Dependeny Injection |
| DIN | Deutsche Industrie Norm |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DSL | Domain Specific Language |
| DTD | Data Type Definition |
| EAR | Enterprise Archive |
| EDA | Event Driven Architecture |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EIP | Enterprise Integration Patterns |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| EMS | (TIBCO) Enterprise Message Server |
| ERM | Entity Relationship Modelling |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
| FT | Fault Tolerance |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FTPS | FTP over SSL |
| HA | High Availability |
| HLK | Heizung, Lüftung und Klimatisierung |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| HVAC | Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IaC | Infrastructure as Code |
| IAM | Identity & Access Management |
| IAST | Interactive Application Security Testing |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDEA | International Data Encryption Algorithm |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPS | Intrusion Prevention System |
| ISMS | Information Security Management System |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ITIL | IT Infrastructure Library |
| ITSM | IT Service Management |
| JAR | Java Archive |
| JAX-B | Java Architecture for XML Binding |
| JAX-RS | Java-API for RESTful Web Services |
| JAX-WS | Java-API for XML Web Services |
| JBI | Java Business Integration |
| JCE | Java Cryptography Extension |
| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JEE | Java Enterprise Edition |
| JMS | Java Message Service |
| JMX | Java Management Extensions |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface |
| JPA | Java Persistence API |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicators |
| LAMP | Linux Apache MySQL PHP |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| MAC | Mandatory Access Control |
| MAC | Media-Access-Control |
| MD | Modular Design |
| MD | Message Digest |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture |
| MDB | Message Driven Bean |
| MDM | Master Data Management |
| MEP | Message Exchange Pattern |
| MFA | Multi Factor Authentication |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange |
| MitM | Man-in-the-Middle |
| MOM | Message Oriented Middleware |
| MQ | Message Queue |
| MVN | Maven |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NPE | Null Pointer Exception |
| NFS | Network File System |
| OOA | Object Oriented Analysis |
| OOD | Object Oriented Design |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming |
| ORM | Object Relational Mapping |
| OSGi | Open Serives Gateway Initiative |
| OTP | One Time Pad |
| OWASP | Open Web Application Security Project |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PID | Process Identifier |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| POJO | Plain Old Java Object |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocal Version 3 |
| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor |
| POM | Project Object Model |
| PU | Processing Unit |
| RBAC | Role Based Access Control |
| RCE | Remote Code Execution |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| RMI | Remote Method Innvocation |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| ROOM | Realtime Object Oriented Modelling |
| RSA | Rivest–Shamir–Adleman |
| RT | Realtime |
| RTC | Run To Completion |
| RUP | Rational Unified Process |
| RV | (TIBCO) Rendezvous |
| SA | Structured Analysis |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SAN | Storge Area Network |
| SAST | Static Application Security Testing |
| SBoM | Software Bill od Material |
| SCA | Service Component Architecture |
| SCA | Software Composition Analysis |
| SCM | Source Code Management |
| SCM | Supply Chain Management |
| SCP | Secure Copy |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDLC | Software Development Lifecycle |
| SDN | Software Defined Network |
| SEDA | Staged Event Driven Architecture |
| SFTP | SSH File Transfer Protocol |
| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol (SOA Protocol) |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SVN | Subversion |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TDD | Test Driven Development |
| TIBCO | The Information Bus Company |
| TRA | (TIBCO) Runtime Agent |
| UDP | User Datagam Protocol |
| UML | Unified Modelling Language |
| UPS | Uninteruptible Power Supply |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| USV | Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VSFTPD | Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon |
| WADL | Web Application Description Language |
| WAF | Web Application Firewall |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAR | Web Archive |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WSDL | Web Services Definition / Description Language |
| XAMPP | Linux/Windows Apache MySQL SQLite Perl PHP |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XP | Extreme Programming |
| XPath | XML Path Language |
| XSD | XML Schema Definition |
| XSL | Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | XSL Transformation |
| XSS | Cross-Site-Scripting |
| XXE | XML External Entities |
| YAML | Yet Another Markup Language |
In the software industry and especially in the enterprise integration or IT-Security domain do exist a lot of technologies and concepts. There have been created many acronym for ease of use. The followings belong to my "daily repertoire". The knowledge and understanding of the underlying themes is essential for realizing successful projects.