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  2. Screened subnet - Wikipedia

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    A screened subnet is an essential concept for e-commerce or any entity that has a presence in the World Wide Web or is using electronic payment systems or other network services because of the prevalence of hackers, advanced persistent threats, computer worms, botnets, and other threats to networked information systems.

  3. DMZ (computing) - Wikipedia

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    DMZ (computing) In computer security, a DMZ or demilitarized zone (sometimes referred to as a perimeter network or screened subnet) is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted, usually larger, network such as the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional ...

  4. Subnet - Wikipedia

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    A subnetwork, or subnet, is a logical subdivision of an IP network. [1]: 1, 16 The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting. Computers that belong to the same subnet are addressed with an identical group of its most-significant bits of their IP addresses. This results in the logical division of an IP address ...

  5. Reserved IP addresses - Wikipedia

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    Subnet Used for link-local addresses [ 5 ] between two hosts on a single link when no IP address is otherwise specified, such as would have normally been retrieved from a DHCP server 172.16.0.0/12

  6. Air gap (networking) - Wikipedia

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    An air gapped network (right) with no connection to a nearby internet-connected network (left) An air gap, air wall, air gapping [1] or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network. [2]

  7. Computer network - Wikipedia

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    An internetwork is the connection of multiple different types of computer networks to form a single computer network using higher-layer network protocols and connecting them together using routers. The Internet is the largest example of internetwork. It is a global system of interconnected governmental, academic, corporate, public, and private ...

  8. Category:Computer network security - Wikipedia

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    MAC flooding. Man-in-the-middle attack. Man-on-the-side attack. Managed security service. McAfee Change Control. Messaging security. Microsegmentation (network security) Microsoft SmartScreen. Middlebox.

  9. Information security audit - Wikipedia

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    Information security audit. An information security audit is an audit of the level of information security in an organization. It is an independent review and examination of system records, activities, and related documents. These audits are intended to improve the level of information security, avoid improper information security designs, and ...