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  • Trust Relationship

    Trust Relationship

    Definition of TRUST RELATIONSHIP in Network Encyclopedia. What is Trust Relationship (in computer networking)? Trust relationship is a secure communication channel between two domains in Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems. Trust relationships allow users in one domain to access resources in another domain. Trusts work by having one domain trust the authority of the other…

  • Token Ring

    Token Ring

    Token Ring is a popular local area network (LAN) technology developed by IBM that still has a large installed base in many shops but has been greatly outpaced in recent years by different forms of Ethernet.

  • TCP/IP

    TCP/IP

    TCP/IP is an abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, an industry-standard protocol suite for wide area networks (WANs) developed in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

  • SOCKS v5

    SOCKS v5

    SOCKS v5 is a circuit-layer proxy protocol used in client/server networking environments.

  • Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

    Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

    SLIP is an industry-standard protocol developed in 1984 for UNIX environments that supports TCP/IP networking over serial transmission lines.

  • Security Reference Monitor

    Security Reference Monitor

    Explore the evolution of Security Reference Monitor in Windows OS. From its role in Windows NT to modern versions, learn how SRM enforces security

  • SATAN Tool: Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks

    SATAN Tool: Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks

    SATAN is a free tool developed by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema in 1995 for remotely analyzing the security of networks.

  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

    Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

    Definition of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Network Encyclopedia. What is IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)? IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is an international community of networking engineers, network administrators, researchers, and vendors whose goal is to ensure the smooth operation and evolution of the Internet. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) receives its…

  • Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)

    Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)

    S/MIME is an extension of the widely implemented Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) encoding standard, which defines how the body portion of an SMTP message is structured and formatted.

  • Security Account Manager: SAM Database

    Security Account Manager: SAM Database

    SAM Database is the database of user and group account information stored on a domain controller in a Microsoft Windows Server-based network.

  • Request for Comments (RFC)

    Request for Comments (RFC)

    RFC (stands for Request For Comments) is a document that describes the standards, protocols, and technologies of the Internet and TCP/IP.

  • Remote Bridge: Bridging the Gap in Computer Networking

    Remote Bridge: Bridging the Gap in Computer Networking

    Discover the fundamentals of a Remote Bridge in computer networking, a vital technology for connecting geographically separated networks effectively.