What Is QoS? Quality of Service (QoS) in networking refers to the management of network resources to ensure the best performance of specific types of data transmission. The primary goal of QoS is to provide priority, including dedicated bandwidth, controlled jitter and congestion, and improved loss situations. It’s used to guarantee a certain level of a network service’s… Read More »
What Are Network Access Attacks? Technology is forever evolving, and so is hacking! It might come as a surprise to many that, as one wakes up in the morning and prepares for work, gets to the office, and spends nine to twelve hours working; the same way a professional hacker spends all day modifying hacking techniques and looking… Read More »
Network management tools such as Syslog and SNMP are very valuable tools to enable you to monitor the health of your network devices if properly configured. If these tools have been misconfigured, you will not be able to gather the information you need while troubleshooting specific events or be notified of the time and date an event has occurred. Therefore, you need… Read More »
What Is VLAN Hopping Attacks? VLAN hopping is a type of network attack that exploits certain properties of the VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) setup, particularly on switches, to gain unauthorized access to traffic of other VLANs that would normally be restricted. VLANs are used to segment network traffic, with the purpose of increasing security and performance by… Read More »
How to Secure Your Network with Cisco Routers Before we look at how to secure Cisco routers, let’s briefly summarise the role routers play in network security The Role of Routers in Network Security As you must know, routers are used for forwarding traffic between different networks based on Layer 3 IP addresses and provide access to network… Read More »
