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FIPS stands for the Federal Information Processing Standardisation and FIPS 140-2 is a collection of standards that are generically associated with hardware and software cryptography. In most cases, people can refer to this as the method of encrypting data. There are four levels under the 140-2 mandate and these - according to wikipedia - are:

FIPS 140-2 Level 1 is the entry point and roughly speaking means that components of a system must be "production-grade" and obvious kinds of insecurity must be absent.

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The most common mistakes I hear or read about email usually begin with people talking about POP3 and IMAP, so let's clear those off the table: POP3 and IMAP have absolutely nothing to do with sending or receiving email, so get that notion out of your head (if it's in there). Email is sent and received using SMTP, which stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

It's a good name, because getting email from one place to another really IS simple, and it works a lot like sending a snail mail letter in real life:

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A brief overview to explain gateways, default gateways and static routes OR NO - you CANNOT have two default gateways on the same server, PC or other Windows-based network device.

In simple terms a gateway is formed when a computer such as a server or PC has a network connection between two or more networks or subnets. Generally, such a connection is created by the host server or PC having two or more network cards installed and each having an IP address and subnet mask from a different IP address range.

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Whether you are a small or large organization, proper asset management can benefit your organization. Like other assets, software is also an organizational asset, which must also be imperatively managed. Proper software management ensures many things like data security, high productivity, software license compliance, etc.

Software deployed within an organization must comply with license agreement and copyright laws to protect your organization from legal issues. If any organization whether small or large is found breaching copyright laws or does not comply on software terms and conditions then the organization ...
 
 
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