Network Administrator and System Administrator are the two terms that overlap each other but in reality, they are very different from each other. In this blog, we will discuss what the roles of network administrators and system administrators are and …
The present day job market is highly competitive and in this scenario, it is not simple to enter the tech industry. There is no doubt that career in this industry offer high rewards but for getting the identity different from …
The method of using familiar semantics of operating, packet formats and interfaces of DNS programming in small network without a DNS server is termed as Multicast DNS or mDNS. Every network node with mDNS reserved multicast address of 224.0.0.251 is …
What is URL Filtering? Sometimes you browse your favorite social networking site on any of the web browser and that web browser displays the message “You are not allowed to browse following website”. This is because of the URL filtering. …
The medium that allows traveling of information through it from one device of network to other is termed as network cable. Selection of the cable type for the network is dependent on factors such as topology, size and procedure of …
The importance of the batch file can be easily understood by the power users and system administrators. But, generally most of the regular computer users are unaware of these files. This indicates that people are not utilizing this powerful tool …
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s technological invention intended for taking care of Windows’ varied operational environments. Microsoft has offered set of specifications in the form of WMI for strengthening applications and devices management in the network. The information regarding …
A VPN kill switch is also known as an internet kill switch. For the VPN security solution, a VPN kill switch is a critical piece. It is considered to be the top feature for the best torrent VPN. This feature …
The framework of IT infrastructure of most of the organizations has Active Directory as a significant part. This significance is the reason why attackers have the Active Directory at the top of their target. In a case when any of …
Better Fault tolerance/ better availability/ better cost management/ better scalability – These must be considered while hosting a website/ App on the server to allow smooth functioning of the website/ App. Website owners have a key requirement of high uptime …
An Activity Directory is a product of Microsoft that runs on Server of Windows. It allows managing, accessing, and permissions for the network resources. The data is stored as an object in this directory and the object can be anyone …
It is not possible to 100% prevent the router attacks. However, there are possibilities of few things that could be done for preventing the occurrence of most common attacks of routers on the network and the system. Widespread attacks are …
Network Topology refers to the physical or logical layout of a network. Ring topology is a type of network topology in which each network device is connected to two other devices, forward and backward forming a single continuous path for signal transmission. …
Network Topology refers to the physical or logical layout of a network. BUS TOPOLOGY Bus topology is a type of network topology where each node is connected to a single cable known as the backbone. Though there is no limit to …
MESH NETWORK TOPOLOGY Network Topology refers to the physical or logical layout of a network. Mesh network topology is a type of site-to-site WAN topology in which each network device is connected to every other device through a dedicated link …
HUB AND SPOKE/ STAR NETWORK TOPOLOGY Network Topology refers to the physical or logical layout of a network. Hub and spoke or star topology is a site-to-site Wide Area Network (WAN) topology. In this type of topology, we have a central device, called …
If we were speaking a decade back and one of us comes up with an idea of amalgamating machine learning and artificial intelligence to attain perfection in conventional automation industry, then most of us would have laughed at it as …
Virtual Machine Monitor or VMM also called as Hypervisor is a technology that separates software (computer operating system) from hardware. With a hypervisor, a host computer can support and accommodate many other virtual machines by sharing its processing and memory. …
Server virtualization is perhaps the sultriest point in the IT world today. It has been around for a long time, and its ubiquity continues developing, particularly in big business environments. What makes virtualization conceivable is hypervisors. Server virtualization permits distinctive …
In any IT setup, Network Engineer is the key and fundamental resource responsible for setup of network infrastructure on which all the services like Security, voice, wireless, messaging and Internet are made accessible. A network engineer is a technology expert …
Application availability, continuity of service, greater performance of the application – These are the things we would always require from a platform owner while designing the network and answer to this in AWS is called ELB (Elastic load balancing). This …
ICMP stands for the Internet Control Message Protocol. It is a primary protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite. It is used by network devices to relay an error message and management queries. It helps to reroute the message to its …
Cloud computing is a technology that involves delivering different hosting services over the Internet using various hardware and software. Cloud computing allows we can access any files from anywhere in the world. It creates files remotely accessible. It can be …
The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a network communication protocol that interconnects the network devices into the internet. It provides a communication between the source and the destination. It specifies how data packets should be broken, addressed, routed, transmitted, …
I am sure that while working on Security groups, we do ponder about Firewalls and Rules i.e. allowing or denying traffic based on hardware or software firewalls. In case of AWS security groups are very similar to NACL’s in that …
Two terms which in limelight especially in Telecom Operation world are BSS and OSS. BSS stands for Business Support Systems while OSS refers to Operations Support Systems. By their names, both the terms may seem complementary, however they both are …
Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI) refers to a logical and conceptual network model that defines the network communication protocol that is used by open systems to communicates and connect with other network systems. This network model has seven subcomponents. Each …
Microservices is the current hot topic being discussed in the software development circles. People are using microservices architecture for their businesses instead of using monolithic approach. The traditional methods of building enterprise application i.e. monolithic approach creates many problems when …
What is Edge computing? The networking philosophy known as Edge computing is aimed at taking computing close to data source so as to reduce the bandwidth and latency use. In other words, running fewer procedures in cloud is termed as …
Computer programming languages are broadly categorized into 2 types namely – High Level Language and Low Level Language. Abbreviation for High Level Language is HLL and Low Level Language is LLL. The former language is pretty popular with developers and …
Windows has been quite a popular choice for home and office users. It’s been the widely used Operating system used in desktops, laptops and personal computers. Linux is an open-source operating system which is based on UNIX OS. Linux was …
Over many years, Perimeter security has been considered the key to presenting a robust and secured network ecosystem . This was considered a suitable methodology when the network attacks were not so advanced and North-South traffic was the major traffic …
The DVD technology was emerged in 1997. It revolutionized the movie industry and brought digital sound and video into homes all over the world. The Blu-ray Discs (BD) were introduced in 2006. With their high storage capacity, these discs can hold and …
Cloud computing has opened a breath for enterprise and telecom related opportunities to hosting applications and services. While market talk is that somewhere in near future IT Cloud and Telco Cloud will merge to form a consolidated Cloud to serve …
Proxies (often called intermediaries in the SOA world) are hardware or software solutions that sit between the client and the server and do something to requests and sometimes responses. The most often heard use of the term proxy is in …
Make sure that you type the name of your favorite social networking site in the web browser and it displays a message “The policy of your organization does not allow navigation to this website” and does not allow access to …
Users began to know this malicious program from the year 2000 when a teenager from Canada launched a series of denial of service attacks against very popular websites. The young man, whose nickname was Mafiaboy, attacked Yahoo, ETrade, Dell, eBay, …
For some years now, the word cybersecurity has become a standard among companies. Information Technology is already a common tool in business and to keep systems safe, security measures are lacking to help us avoid being exposed to large risks. …
SSH PROTOCOL SSH (or Secure Shell) is a protocol that facilitates secure communications between two systems using a client/server architecture and allows users to connect to a host remotely. Unlike other remote communication protocols such as FTP or Telnet, SSH …
Equifax, Avanti or Down Jones, are sadly famous companies in 2017 for having suffered significant leaks of sensitive information. Thus, those who committed to ensuring the confidentiality of their customers, are faced with the obvious failure of wrong Data Loss …
NAT (NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION) In computer networking, Network Address Translation (NAT) is the process of modifying IP address information in IP packet headers while in transit across a traffic routing device. Network Address Translation (NAT) allows security administrators to overcome …
In this post, we shall discuss about comparison of URL filtering and Content filtering. Both the terms are interrelated, however differ in flavor of how they protect and assets they protect. SO, lets understand them in more detail – URL …
Both the proxy and the firewall limit or block connections to and from a network but in a different way. While a firewall filters and blocks communication (ports or unauthorized programs that seek unauthorized access to our network), a proxy …
Cloud computing and related services have been one of the most talked about keyword in the IT world. In this article, we will discuss around cloud computing models. Primarily, Cloud Models are of 2 types – Service Model’s Deployment models. …
CSMA/CA stands for Carrier Multiple Access/Collision avoidance. It is a technique using which the chances of collision are decreased. In most of the cases, the collision is avoided. It is used to transmit data using 802.11 standards. The similar technique …