A Reference Information
The following topics provide reference information about the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield).
Security Shield Acronyms
Documentation for the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield) uses the following acronyms.
| ACLI | Acme Command Line Interface—The command line interface you can use for configuring the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller. |
| API | Application Programming Interface—An interface or common protocol used between parts of a computer program. Used to ease implementing and maintaining software. |
| CCS | Cloud Communication Service—The bi-directional Security Shield communication service between on-premises devices and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. |
| CLI | Calling Line Identity—A method of identifying the origin of and inbound call. |
| HA | High Availability—A method of pairing devices to ensure that one is always active. |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management—Ensures that the right people and job roles can access applications, data and digital assets. |
| IVR | Interactive Voice Response—An automated telephone system used to engage callers with prompts that provide actions and information without intervention from live agents. |
| LAN | Local Area Network—In the Security Shield, the LAN is the internal connection to the Policy Decision Engine. |
| OCI | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure—Oracle's cloud services platform where you can build and run a wide range of applications and services in a high availability, hosted environment. |
| PEP | Policy Enforcement Point—A session border controller, for example, that applies the actions that you specify to calls. |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network—A collection of interconnected, traditional circuit-switched telephone networks for voice communications. |
| REST | Representational State Transfer—When a client requests a resource by way of a REST API, the server sends the resource back in its current state in a standardized representation. |
| SaaS | Software as a Service—A distribution method, where a third-party hosts your software and makes it available over the Internet. |
| SBC | Session Border Controller—A device that you deploy on the border of your network to protect SIP-based Voice over Internet Protocol operations. |
| WAN | Wide Area Network—In the Security Shield, WAN is the external connection to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. |