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November 17, 2012  1:58 AM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part VI



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Public Key Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Transport Mode, Tunnel Mode

Why understanding IPv6 is important to end-users Currently, the dominant internetworking protocol is Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). Yet, each IPv4 address is limited to a thirty-two bit field length, which corresponds...

November 15, 2012  2:54 AM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part V



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Public Key Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Transport Mode, Tunnel Mode

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November 10, 2012  2:40 AM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part IV



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Service Delivery

Upon arrival at the destination, the original internetworking message is reassembled in the correct order, based on the imprinted packet sequence number. Thus a virtual connection is established with the end-station through a

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November 8, 2012  1:20 AM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part III



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet, Internet Governance, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Service Delivery

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November 2, 2012  11:13 PM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part II



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet, Internet Governance, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Service Delivery

Packet-switched networking model As presented in the article A Few Fundamentals of Networking Electronically Encoded Data, data must be organized for transmission. Thus, the creation of usable telecommunication packets requires appending a unique header to the message destined...


November 1, 2012  3:28 AM

A Few Fundamental Features of IPv6 Internetworking – Part I



Posted by: Robert Davis
Authentication, Availability Management, Cloud Computing, Configuration, Encapsulating Security Payload, ICT, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology Service Management, Infrastructure Management, Internet, Internet Governance, Internet Protocol Security, IPSec, IT Architecture, IT Hardware, IT Security, Multiprocessing, Service Delivery

The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other connected computer. Internet protocols are a support structure for...


October 18, 2012  1:18 AM

Essential Operating System Protection Mechanisms – Part III



Posted by: Robert Davis
Central Processing Unit, Configuration Management, Control Techniques, IAP, ICT, Information Communication Technology, Information Security, Information Security Infrastructure Management, IT Configuration, IT Controls, IT Infrastructure, IT Security, IT Security Infrastructure, Logical Security, Operational Level Agreement, OS, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation

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October 13, 2012  12:40 AM

Essential Operating System Protection Mechanisms – Part II



Posted by: Robert Davis
Central Processing Unit, Configuration Management, Control Techniques, IAP, ICT, Information Communication Technology, Information Security, Information Security Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Management, IT Configuration, IT Controls, IT Infrastructure, IT Security, IT Security Infrastructure, Logical Security, Operational Level Agreement, OS, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation

Deployable operating system protection mechanisms In most instances, the purpose of operating system protection mechanisms are to prevent programs from interfering with each other during processing and to ensure there are no errors in referencing of subroutines in the program...


October 11, 2012  12:39 PM

Essential Operating System Protection Mechanisms – Part I



Posted by: Robert Davis
BYOD, Central Processing Unit, Configuration Management, Control Techniques, IAP, Information Communication Technology, Information Security, Information Security Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Management, IT Configuration, IT Controls, IT Infrastructure, IT Security, IT Security Infrastructure, Logical Security, Operational Level Agreement, OS, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation

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September 8, 2012  12:14 AM

Data Communications Risk in Distributed Computing – Part V



Posted by: Robert Davis
Capacity Management, Configuration Management, Distributed Platforms, Information Communication Technology, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management, IT Architecture, IT Configuration, IT Infrastructure, IT Security, IT Support, Management Information Systems, Message Integrity, Risk Management, Service Delivery and Support

Reducing data communication error risk for teleprocessing systems Teleprocessing is the handling of data through a communications channel, such as...