Category: COMPUTER SECURITY

      In my previous article, I have talked about some of the ways that you can secure email accounts, In this article, I want to provide a clear…

A firewall is a part of the computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorised access from devices. In this article, I want to talk about some of…

  Online banking has become commonplace, although some people are still afraid of using it online banking. There is no need for you to fear. You just need to take…

In my previous article, I talked about why we need to embrace online payments as an option. In this article, I want to talk about eight major types of credit…

 In many of my previous articles, I have talked about how you can carry out a proper online transaction with your card and other payment alternatives. In this article, I…

If there is one thing that has become so annoying to me as a person, it is this process of receiving unwanted emails in my inbox. I do not know…

  We are under attack and attackers want access to our assets. Assets are anything of value to an organization, such as data and other intellectual property, servers, computers, smartphones,…

  An Access Control List in networking is a series of commands that control whether a device forwards or drops packets based on information found in the packet header. When…

WLANs use Radio Frequencies (RF) instead of cables at the physical layer and MAC sublayer of the data link layer. WLANs share a similar origin with Ethernet LANs. The IEEE…

  Within a switched internetwork, VLANs provide segmentation and organizational flexibility. VLANs provide a way to group devices within a LAN. A group of devices within a VLAN communicate as…

  Digital signatures in cybersecurity are a mathematical techniques used to provide authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiation. Digital signatures have specific properties that enable entity authentication and data integrity. In addition,…

  The term “endpoint” is defined in various ways. For the purpose of this course, we can define endpoints as hosts on the network that can access or be accessed…

  In order to detect serious security incidents, it is important to understand, characterize, and analyze information about normal network functioning. Networks, servers, and hosts all exhibit typical behaviour for…

Alert data consists of messages generated by intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) or intrusion detection systems (IDSs) in response to traffic that violates a rule or matches the signature of a…

As previously discussed, host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) run on individual hosts. HIDS not only detects intrusions but in the form of host-based firewalls, which can also prevent intrusion. This…

  A typical network has a multitude of different logs to keep track of and most of those logs are in different formats. With huge amounts of disparate data, how…

As networks begin to grow and interconnect, it became important to control the flow of traffics to networks. This initially took the form of packet filtering firewalls that examines the…

Wifi is the technology6355444543 for wireless LAN. It is built based on the IEEE 802.11 standard. It started small but it has becomes the major standard for connecting endless devices…

  An endpoint security architecture in the past means any personal device used by an end-user. It includes laptop desktop and other devices now it includes smartphones, IoT and other…