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Appendix A
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Appendix A - Acronyms and Abbreviations
Selected acronyms and abbreviations used in the guide are defined below.
FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
IT - Information Technology
ITL - Information Technology Laboratory
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
PaaS - Platform as a Service
OMB - Office of Management and Budget
SaaS - Software as a Service
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
SP - Special Publication
UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
VM - Virtual Machine
WSDL - Web Services Description Language