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W
wide-area network. Data communications network that serves users across a broad geographic area and
WAN
often uses transmission devices provided by common carriers. Frame Relay, SMDS, and X.25 are
examples of WANs.
A component of the IPS.
Web Server
Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer for UNIX and Windows. It lets you examine data from a
Wireshark
live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing
summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a
rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. For more
information, see http://www.wireshark.org.
A computer program that can run independently, can propagate a complete working version of itself
worm
onto other hosts on a network, and can consume computer resources destructively.
X
Standard that defines information contained in a certificate.
X.509
eXtensible Markup Language. Textual file format used for data interchange between heterogeneous
XML
hosts.
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