- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 2033
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Symantec Corporation is an computer security software corporation headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. It is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.
DNS is the service used to translate Internet names, such as www.symantec.com, into IP addresses, and the reverse. This service is used by client software, such as the browser on a PC, to locate companies and resources on the Internet and uses ports 53/TCP and 53/UDP.
Industry:Network hardware
This acronym means Network Interface Card, and is used interchangeably with the term "adapter". Both terms are used when referring to the network communication cards that are placed in the PC.
Industry:Network hardware
The process of verifying that a client is who or what it claims to be. The Raptor Firewall supports the ACE/SecurID, Cryptocard, NT Domain, Belcore S/Key, Radius, Tacacs+, and gwpasswd authentication schemes. The Raptor Firewall supports both static and dynamic authentication modes for many of these schemes.
Industry:Network hardware
A decimal number that uniquely identifies a group on the firewall. In essence, the GID becomes for the firewall software synonymous with the group name. GIDs are entered as part of the process of creating a group on the firewall.
Industry:Network hardware
A software program that requests the use of a network service. In this context, a browser is considered a client program. Sometimes the term client is used to refer to hosts (PCs, workstations) on which the client software runs, as in the question, "How many clients are behind the firewall?"
Industry:Network hardware
A decimal number that uniquely identifies a gateway username on the firewall. In essence, the UID becomes, for the firewall software, synonymous with the username. UIDs are entered as part of the process of creating a gateway username on the firewall.
Industry:Network hardware
This acronym means Simple Mail Transport Protocol, and refers to the primary method of moving email across the Internet. SMTP uses port 25/TCP.
Industry:Network hardware
This term is most often used when describing service redirection, and refers to an additional IP address that is assigned to the firewall's outside NIC through host routes on the Internet router (not through the network control panel on the firewall, as Raptor Firewall does not support this).
Industry:Network hardware
This acronym means "Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol" and refers the application-level protocol used to browse the World Wide Web. HTTP typically uses port 80/TCP.
Industry:Network hardware
