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-- Firewall Resource Guide
-- Popular VLAN attacks and how to avoid them
-- Crash Course: VLANs
-- Designing cost-efficient networks
-- Chapter of the Week
-- The Missing Link: Today's trivia question
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FIREWALL RESOURCE GUIDE | SearchNetworking.com
Firewalls are an essential tool in protecting your network from various threats. Created in partnership with our sister site, SearchSecurity.com, this guide is a compilation of resources that explain what firewalls are, how they work, vulnerabilities, troubleshooting, configurations and more.
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POPULAR VLAN ATTACKS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM | Chris Partsenidis
Learn how to secure a VLAN from popular attacks such as the VLAN hopping attack and Address Resolution Protocol attack.
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CRASH COURSE: VLANS
VLANs allow you to create flexible, secure groupings of users based on job function or group membership, rather than physical location.
Learn how and where to use them.
DESIGNING COST-EFFICIENT NETWORKS
You've been assigned the task of designing or upgrading your organization's network on a limited budget. With our resources you'll see how to take scalability, availability, and security into account for cost savings when you're designing your network.
CHAPTER OF THE WEEK
Chapter 3 of "Open Source Network Administration" by James M.
Kretchmar describes MRTG. MRTG produces Web pages that display graphs of bandwidth use on network links on daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly scales. This can be an invaluable tool for diagnosing network problems because it not only indicates the current status of the network but also lets you visually compare this with the history of network utilization. (Reproduced with permission from Pearson publishing as Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0130462101, Copyright 2005.)
THE MISSING LINK
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TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION | Whatis.com
MAN refers to the interconnection of networks in a city into a single larger network. What does MAN stand for?
a. metropolitan area network
b. main area network
c. multiple area networks
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