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| A temporary storage area. |
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| IP addresses that are split between the network and host portions set on the boundaries between the bytes. |
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| Unifying voice and data traffic over a single Internet Protocol (iP network). |
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| Switches that reside at the top of the hierarchy and carry traffic between switches. |
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| A separate network that sits outside the secure network perimeter, often used to provide “outside services" such as web service and e-mail. |
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| A server intended to trap or trick attackers. |
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| host intrusion prevention systems (HIPS) |
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| Intrusion prevention systems that are installed on local systems. |
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| integrated network security hardware |
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| A hardware device that integrates multipurpose security appliances with traditional network device such as a switch or router. |
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| A technology to monitor Internet traffic and block access to preselected web sites and files. |
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| intrusion prevention system (IPS) |
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| a system that finds malicious traffic and deals with it immediately. |
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| adding digital voice clients and new voice applcations onto the IP network. |
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| Services such as voice, video, and data combined and transported under a universial format. |
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| network access control (NAC) |
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| a technology that examines the current state of a system and corrects any deficiencies before it is allowed to connect to the network. |
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| network address translation (NAT) |
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| A technology that hides the iP addresses of network devices from attackers. |
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| network intrusion detection system (NIDS) |
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| A system to monitor and possibly prevent attempts to attack a local system. |
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| network intrusion prevention systems (NIPS) |
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| Intrusion prevention systems that work to protect the entire network and all devices that are connected to it. |
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| Using a separate data stream. |
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| port address translation (PAT) |
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| A variation of network address translation (NAT) that assigns a different TCP port number to each packet. |
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| IP addresses that are not assigned to any specific user or organization but can be used by any user on the private internal network. |
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| A honeypot that is used mainly by organizations to capture limited information regarding attacks on that organizationÂ’s honeypot. |
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| A computer system (or an application program) that intercepts internal user requests and then processes that request on behalf of the user. |
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| A honeypot that is more complex and used primarily by research, military, and government organizations. |
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| A device that routes incoming requests to the correct server. |
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| The rules that establishes what action the firewall should take when it receives a packet. |
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| stateful packet filtering |
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| A firewall technology that keeps a record of the state of a connection between an internal computer and an external server and then makes decisions based on the connection as well as the rule base. |
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| stateless packet filtering |
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| A firewall technology that looks it the 1ncoming packet and permits or denies it based strictly on the rule base. |
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| An IP addressing technique in which an IP address can be split anywhere within its 32 bits. |
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| An IP addressing technique in which an IP address can be split anywhere within its 32 bits. |
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| An instruction that interrupts the program being executed and requests a service from the operating system. |
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| Segmenting a network by separating devices into logical groups. |
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| A technology that places voice traffic onto an IP network. |
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| Switches that are connected directly to the devices on the network. |
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