The following terms starting with the letter "S" have specific pages dedicated to them. You can come back to this page or the main Computer Terms page by using the navigation breadcrumbs at the bottom of each page.

• S-HTTP = Secure HTTP
• S/MIME = Secure/MIME
• SAA = System Application Architecture
• SAN = Storage Area Network
• SAP = SAP America, Inc. (SAP AG)
• SAP = Secondary Audio Program
• SAP = Service Advertising Protocol
• SAS = Serial Attached SCSI
• SBB = Storage Bridge Bay Working Group
• SCAM = SCSI Configuration Automatically
• SCART = Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs
• Script Kiddie = A shameful description of someone who was not smart enough to build malware from scratch.
• SCSI = Small Computer System Interface
• SDH = Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
• SDK = Software Development Kit
• SDRAM = Synchronous Dynamic RAM
• SDSL = Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
• SET = Secure Electronic Transaction
• SFF = Small Form-Factor
• SGI = Silicon Graphics Incorporated
• SGML = Standard Generalized Markup Language
• SGRAM = Synchronous Graphic RAM
• SIG = Special Interest Group
• SIMD = Single Instruction Multiple Data
• SIMM = Single In-line Memory Module
• SIP = Single In-line Package
• SLDRAM = SyncLink DRAM
• SLED = Single Large Expensive Disk
• SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol
• SMART = Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• SMB = Server Message Block
• SMDS = Switched Multimegabit Data Services
• SMIF = Stream-based Model Interchange Format
• SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
• SMP = Simple Management Protocol
• SMP = Symmetric Multiprocessing
• SMS = Systems Management Server
• SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SNA = Systems Network Architecture
• SNMP = Simple Network Management Protocol
• SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol
• SOC = System-on-a-Chip
• SOHO = Small Office/Home Office
• SONET = Synchronous Optical Network
• SPARC = Scalable Processor Architecture
• SPE = Superparamagnetic Effect
• SPEC = Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
• SPID = Service Profile (Provider) Identification
• SPIM = Spam Over Instant Messaging
• SPX = Sequenced Packet Exchange
• SQL = Structured Query Language
• SRAM = Static Random Access Memory
• SSD = Solid-state Disk
• SSI = Server-Side Include
• SSL = Secure Sockets Layer
• SSL Trojan = Money-stealing Trojan that attacks banking sites.
• SSSCA = Security Systems Standards and Certification Act
• ST506/412 = Seagate Technologies 506 and 412 Controller
• SVC = Switched Virtual Circuit
• SVG = Scalable Vector Graphics
• SVGA = Super Video Graphics Array
• SWISH = Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
• SYN = Synchronize sequence Number
• SYSOP = System Operator