Crafting Secure Software

Appendix: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Association of International Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): AICPA is a professional organization for accountants in the United States.
• Annualized loss expectancy (ALE): ALE is a risk management metric used to estimate the potential financial loss due to a security threat or vulnerability over the course of a year.
• Amazon resource names (ARNs): ARNs are unique identifiers used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to specify resources across the AWS ecosystem.
• Application security (AppSec): AppSec refers to the practice of implementing measures and controls to protect software applications from security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Application security framework (ASF): ASF is a structured set of ...