| ABAC | Attribute-Based Access Control |
| ACL | Access-Control List |
| ASG | Answer Set Grammar |
| BBAC | Blockchain-Based Access Control |
| CapBAC | Capability-Based Access Control |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| DAC | Discretionary Access Control |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management |
| DTLS | Datagram Transport Layer Security |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GPM | Generative Policy Model |
| HBAC | History-Based Access Control |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HBAC | History-Based Access Control |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IDoT | Identities of Things |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IoV | Internet of Vehicles |
| IRM | Identity Relationship Management |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| OAuth | Open Authorization |
| OrBAC | Organization-Based Access Control |
| PAP | Policy Administration Point |
| PDP | Policy Decision Point |
| PEP | Policy Enforcement Point |
| PIP | Policy Information Point |
| PRP | Policy Refinement Point |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| ReBAC | Relationship-Based Access Control |
| RPT | Requesting Party Token |
| UCON | Usage-Based Access Control |
| UMA | User-Managed Access |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| XACML | Extensible Access Control Markup Language |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |