Abbreviations

ACL - Access Control List

AMF - Access and Mobility Management Function

AMI - Amazon Machine Image

API - Application Programming Interface

AEAD - Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data

BYOK - Bring Your Own Keys

CCoE - Cloud Center of Excellence

CDR - call detail records

CEC - cloud enablement center

CI/CD - continuous integration/continuous deployment

CNF - containerized network functions

COTS - commercial off-the-shelf

CSP - communications service provider

DNS - Domain Name System

ETL - extract transform load

HSM - hardware security module

HSS - home subscriber service

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IAM - identity and access management

IdP - identity provider

IMEI - International Mobile Equipment Identity

IMS - IP Multimedia Core Subsystem

IMSI - International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IPsec - Internet Protocol Security

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

ISV - independent software vendor

L2 - Layer 2

MACsec - Media Access Control Security

MFA - multi-factor authentication

MSISDN - Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number

NATGW - Network Address Translation Gateway

NEF - Network Exposure Function

NF - Network Function

NVMe – non-volatile memory express

OU - organizational unit

PGW - Packet Data Network Gateway

PII - personal identifiable information

RAN - radio access network

RTP – Real-time Transport Protocol

SCTP - Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SDK - software development kit

SIP - Session Initiation Protocol

SLDC - Software Development Life Cycle

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

TLS - Transport Layer Security

TME - Total Memory Encryption

UDM - Unified Data Management

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

UPF - User Plane Function

VNF - Virtual Network Functions

VPC - virtual private cloud

VPN - virtual private network

XKS - external key store

XTS-AES - XEX Tweakable Block Ciphertext Stealing- Advanced Encryption Standard