• NIOS - Network Identity Operating System
• TME - Technical Marketing Engineer
• BDR - Business Development Representative
• CAM - Channel Account Manager
• PSS - Product Sales Specialist
• CSM - Customer Success Manager
• CSS - Customer Success Specialist
• DCS - Digital Customer Success Agent
• RFE - Request For Enhancement
• SFDC - SalesForceDotCom
• ARB - Architecture Review Board
• TOI - Transfer of Information
• ACV - Annual Contract Value
• TCV - Total Contract Value
• ARR - Annual Renewal Rate
• ROM - Rough Order of Magnitude
• CPE - Continuous Professional Enablement - 1 point per hour of our DNS Security workshops.
• CCB - Cyber Campaign Briefs are short (1 to 2 pages each) and provide information about recent cyber attack campaigns, sometimes from newly discovered threat actors, and usually propagated via malspam.
• CTA - Cyber Threat Advisories provide urgent information about significant or notable attacks.
• MAR - Malicious Activity Reports provide results of in-depth analysis of malware or cyber threat activity.
• BANT - Budget. Authority. Need. Time.
• TIinC - Threat Insight in the Cloud.

Note that for briefing papers, the publicly accessible ones are “white” and contain public information. The private ones available to customers via the CSP portal are “amber” and contain additional information such as additional IOCs, etc.

NIOS was optimized Linux based Fedora OS but is now a very stripped down version of Ubuntu 22.04 (as of 9.0.4)

• A/GM/GMC
• B = Core DNS
• C = DHCP
• D = edge (DMZ) DNS
• E = external DNS
• F = caching
• GM = GM/GMC
• N = Network Insight
• H = DHCP Hub
• M = Microsoft Management
• RPT = Reporting