Sunday, April 25, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


OSPF Basic

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT

OSPF stands for open shortest path first. It's a Link state routing protocol .OSPF matrix is Cost which is inversely proportional to bandwidth (108/Link bandwidth).....


Saturday, April 24, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


Why conduct a penetration test ?

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:31 AM PDT

From a business perspective, penetration testing helps safeguard your organisation against failure, through: Preventing financial loss through fraud (hackers, extortionists and disgruntled employees) or through lost revenue due to unreliable business systems and processes. Proving due diligence and compliance to your industry regulators, customers and shareholders. Non-compliance can result in your organisation losing business, receiving heavy fines, [...]


What is a Penetration Test ?

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Penetration Test  - Much of the confusion surrounding penetration testing stems from the fact it is a relatively recent and rapidly evolving field. Additionally, many organisations will have their own internal terminology (one man’s penetration test is another’s vulnerability audit or technical risk assessment). At its simplest, a penetration-test (actually, we prefer the term security assessment) [...]


Friday, April 23, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:51 AM PDT

EDI is Electronic Data Interchange. It is an inter-organisational exchange of documents in a structured and processable form. It is a key to today’s paperless office. EDI has become a major means of business communications among large companies in the U.S. The use of EDI eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional information flow. Such [...]


Wildcard Masks

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:29 AM PDT

Wildcard masks define the subset of the 32 bits in the IP address that must be matched. Wildcards are used with access lists to specify a host, network or part of a network. Wild card masks work exactly the opposite of subnet masks. In subnet masks, 1 bits are matched to the network portion of [...]


Thursday, April 22, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


Data Encoding

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:57 AM PDT

The first step towards understanding communications is to look at computer data at its base level. As all of us know computer and computer device manage, store and exchange data using electronic pulses or digital signails that comes in two varieties, the binary digit “0″ indicates the absence “OFF” and “I” indicates “ON” the [...]


Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


IP RIP

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 11:20 PM PDT

IP RIP is a true distance vector routing protocol that sends its complete routing table on all interfaces (active) every 30 seconds.  IP RIP uses a hop count as its metric to determine the best path to a remote network.  The maximum allowable hop count is 15, meaning that 16 is unreachable. Below are the two [...]


Understanding ASA

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 11:34 AM PDT

Understanding ASA5520 Cisco ASA5520 series in a single platform to provide a variety of market, a powerful combination of proven technology, which from an operational point of view and economic point of view, can be deployed to more locations and comprehensive security services. It is a multi-functional security appliance, so as to achieve both a strong [...]


Sunday, April 4, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips


The Nuts & Bolts of Networking

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 03:55 AM PDT

Networking is a method that is used to build relationships. These relationships could be with classmates, co-workers, business partners, vendors, service providers and even family. We often attend family reunions where we meet new and distant relations. This is an excellent vehicle for networking.