| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIS | Automatic Identification System |
| AP | Access Point |
| APT | Advanced Persistent Threat |
| BDI | Belief–Desire–Intention |
| BSSID | Basic SSID |
| CCMP | Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DSR | Design Science Research |
| EAPOL | Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN |
| EP | Execution Plan |
| ESSID | Extended SSID |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GTK | Group Temporal Key |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection Systems |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IGTK | Integrity Group Temporal Key |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things |
| IoMT | Internet of Medical Things |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPS | Intrusion Protection Systems |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MIC | Message Integrity Code |
| MitM | Man-in-the-Middle |
| NCR | Norwegian Cyber Range |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NMEA | National Marine Electronics Association |
| PMK | Pairwise Master Key |
| PSK | Preshared Key |
| PTES | Penetration Testing Execution Standard |
| PTK | Pairwise Transient Key |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| VTS | Vessel Traffic Services |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WLAN | Wireless LAN |
| WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access |