| Subject | Italian | English |
| comp., MS | bridging Secure Socket Layer | Secure Socket Layer bridging (A network protocol which forwards Secure Socket Layer (SSL) packets) |
| comp., MS | crittografia Transport Layer Security | Transport Layer Security encryption (A generic security protocol similar to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)) |
| comp., MS | Database Abstraction Layer | database abstraction layer (A middle layer that abstracts the database storage to make the front-end independent of the backend. This abstraction layer is a set of class libraries that allow the front-end code to have no dependency on database providers such as OLEDB or ADO.Net) |
| industr. | film bi-layer | bi-layer film |
| comp., MS | Hardware Abstraction Layer | hardware abstraction layer (A thin layer of software provided by the hardware manufacturer that hides, or abstracts, hardware differences from higher layers of the operating system. By means of the filter provided by the HAL, different types of hardware look alike to the rest of the operating system. This enables the operating system to be portable from one hardware platform to another. The HAL also provides routines that enable a single device driver to support the same device on all platforms) |
| commun., IT | layer entity | layer entity |
| commun., IT | layer management entity | layer management entity |
| comp., MS | Modeling Abstraction Layer | modeling abstraction layer (The layer that resides between users (both application developers and end-users) and SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services data) |
| IT | Secure Socket Layer | Secure Sockets Layer |
| industr. | tecnologia bi-layer | bi-layer technology |
| comp., MS | tunneling Secure Socket Layer | Secure Socket Layer tunneling (A network protocol which encapsulates a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol or session inside another) |