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Networking for Beginners - Active Directories Forests and Domains Network Terms

The primary security boundary for Active Directory is the forest, which contains domain trees. There can be one or more domain trees in a forest, though the first domain is designated as the forest root domain. Domains in Active Directory are identified through their domain name system (DNS) names rather than the NetBIOS naming schema that was prevalent in Windows NT Server 4 and earlier. An example of a DNS domain name is contoso.com. A domain tree can contain multiple domains that share a common namespace. For example, contoso.com, marketing.contosa.com, sales.contosa.com, and europe.sales.contoso.com are all part of the same domain tree. The marketing.contosa.com domain is a child domain of contosa.com, the parent domain. Since a forest can contain mutiple domian trees, you could also have a domain tree for fabrikam.com in the same forest as the contosa.com domain tree. Regardless of the number of domain trees in a forest, there is centralized administration at the fore...

IT Trends - Clouds, Networking, and Hacking

Due to the outburst of cloud solutions and a gamut of devices that ed users use, security and safety of the data and networks is the current IT trend. Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) has been a hot topic for years, and most IT organizations have now come to the conclusion that it is inevitable. As a result, 2013 will be all about enforcing BYOD policies – not just for hardware, including smartphones, laptops and tablets, but also those that span business, security and personal requirements. As the central networks are secure, hackers will try to attack the network from end users side. The ability for IT organizations to effectively monitor endpoints has improved dramatically. As such, the shift in the year ahead will be toward quickly acting on any vulnerabilities and threats that are uncovered before they impact performance or operations. Automation and remediation will both be critical in enabling this. It may not be just the end devices, but also the application that ...