Comedians have long entertained us with excerpts of our own life and language, the funny things we do and say that may not make sense when taken out of context. Expressions like, “Djeet yet?” and “That there’s a different slice of watermelon” don’t make sense on their own, especially when you consider the first is an invitation to break bread and the second, having nothing to do with fruit, calls attention to one thing being unlike another. If you doubt the distinction, Google it. And that brings me to my next point. When is it okay to make a noun a verb?

The nomenclature of the digital world creeps steadfastly into the mainstream, as the IoT subsumes more of our lives. Even IoT is emerging as a reasonably common acronym. It’s a little different, though, when we use parts of the words, instead of the first letter, to create the abbreviation (which may or may not be the right term for such a creation). Think HazMat for Hazardous Materials or Comic-Con for, well, a comic book convention.

Cybersecurity has some interesting acronyms as well. The whimsical nature of the program names really shines in the AppDev world, where JBoss gets in a Scrum with Tomcat, and a Python named Ajax rides an Electric Beanstalk to Grunt at an Apache sipping Java on a VMWare cloud. Even AppDev itself is an acronym, as is SecDevOps.

ICS has a specialized team working around the clock to come up with these great names and acronyms. Actually we don’t, but we do have teams working around the clock on secure application development and secure development operations, and that seems more critical to your business.

So call it whatever you like, but call ICS today. And say hello to your Mamanym.