While this website focuses on Information Security Acronyms, some general OT Acronyms, like certain IT and privacy acronyms, are also important to know when trying to understand information security. Therefore, this page also lists some relevant OT Acronyms. Note that this list does not aim to provide a complete list of all possible OT Acronyms but only to provide the most relevant ones that might be used in combination with information security acronyms.
- CPS = Cyber Physical System
- DCS = Distributed Control System
- HMI = Human Machine Interface
- ICS = Industrial Control System
- IIoT = Industrial Internet of Things
- OPC = OLE for Process Control
- PLC = Programmable Logic Controller
- PROFINET = Process Field Network
- SCADA = Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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