I'm just horrible with acronyms because I work in IT and the health industry, previous the security industry. They all have acronyms and the same acronyms. So they all mean different things to different people. Acronyms are a lazy person writing and you have to be "in the know" to know what they stand for. 100 years from now, no one will be able to understand them.
I'd heard the phrase but not the acronym - there's a difference.
Acronyms are only good for communicating phrases that you hear frequently. For infrequent terminology it's verging on puzzle-solving. Sometimes you can connect the dots and sometimes you can't.
You don't need to know the acronyms to understand the article. Use context clues to infer that the author's point is "traditional tools don't solve the problem I am about to present". They even expand the acronyms later in the article.
Besides, most such acronyms for classes of security tools don't actually mean much. They just represent the current flavor of the week in the security arms race.
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