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Windows Servers

Configuring Windows Server Roaming Profiles

Windows roaming profiles allow the mobile users of a company to always work with their personal settings from any network computer in a domain. Roaming profiles are a collection of personal user sett…

Subnetting

IP Subnetting - Part 1: The Basic Concepts

When we subnet a network, we basically split it into smaller networks. For example, when a set of IP Addresses is given to a company, e.g 254 they might want to "break" (the correct term is "partitio…

Windows Servers

Simple Guide on Installing & Configuring a Window…

A Windows Active Directory Certification Authority server (AD CA), also known as a Certificate Authority, is an essential service to every organization’s Active Directory as it can manage, issue, rev…

Cisco Switches

Configuring SPAN On Cisco Catalyst Switches - Mon…

Being able to monitor your network traffic is essential when it comes to troubleshooting problems, performing a security audit or even casually checking your network for suspicious traffic. Back in…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

TCP Header Anaylsis - Section 4: TCP Flag Options

As we have seen in the previous pages, some TCP segments carry data while others are simple acknowledgements for previously received data. The popular 3-way handshake utilises the SYNs and ACKs avail…

IP Protocol

IP Protocol - Part 2: The Internet Protocol (IP)…

This article examines the Internet Protocol (IP) and its position within the OSI Model. We take a look at the IP Header and all fields contained within an Ethernet frame. Further examination of the I…

Supernetting & CIDR

Supernetting In-Depth Analysis - Learn to Identif…

Our previous article served as an introduction to Supernetting, also known as Route Summarization. We covered the concept of Supernetting, how it works, its advantages and more. This article will att…

The OSI Model

The OSI Model: Layer 1 - Physical Layer

The Physical layer has two responsibilities: it sends bits and receives bits. Bits come only in values of 1 or 0. The Physical layer communicates directly with the various types of actual communicati…

Palo Alto Networks

Introduction to Palo Alto Next-Generation Network…

During the past decade, we’ve seen the global IT security market flooded with new network security and firewall security appliances. New vendors emerging into the market while existing well-known ven…

Windows Servers

Creating a Virtual Machine in Windows Hyper-V. Co…

Our previous articles covered basic concepts of Virtualization along with the installation and monitoring of Windows 2012 Hyper-V. This article takes the next step, which is the installation of a gue…

SASE & SD-WAN Networks

Understanding Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) a…

Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is changing the way that businesses connect to the cloud. With SD-WAN, organizations can move away from closed, proprietary hardware solutions, bringing…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Web Application Vulnerabilities – Benefits of Aut…

This article examines the differences between logical and technical web application vulnerabilities which tends to be a very confusing topic especially for web application developers and security – p…