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McAfee SiteAdvisor, later renamed as McAfee WebAdvisor, is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. Learn about its features, products, services, criticism, awards and history.
HAIPE stands for High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor, a Type 1 encryption device that complies with the NSA's HAIPE IS specification. HAIPE devices use Suite A and Suite B cryptography and can encrypt multicast data, but have limited support for routing protocols and network management.
Learn about the framework for organizing the communication protocols used in the Internet and similar networks, based on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Internet Protocol (IP). The article covers the history, design, and layers of the protocol suite, as well as its technical standards and applications.
A comprehensive list of operating systems designed for use as routers and/or firewalls, with their status, type, architecture, license, cost and description. Includes Linux, FreeBSD and other distributions, such as Alpine Linux, IPFire, OPNsense, pfSense and more.
Learn about TLS, a cryptographic protocol that provides security for network communications. TLS is widely used in applications such as HTTPS, email, and voice over IP, and runs on top of TCP or other reliable transport protocols.
A proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource. Learn about the different types of proxy servers, such as forward, reverse, open, anonymous, transparent, and reverse proxies, and their functions and benefits.
An application-level gateway (ALG) is a security component that augments a firewall or NAT and supports address and port translation for certain application layer protocols. Learn about the functions, examples and implementations of ALGs in Windows, Linux and other networks.
Internet security is a branch of computer security that deals with the Internet, browser, web site, and network security. It covers various types of malware, denial-of-service attacks, phishing, man-in-the-middle attacks, and application vulnerabilities, as well as their prevention methods such as encryption, IPsec, and multi-factor authentication.