Encryption has been the motor that’s been allowing technology to keep moving forward. It is the art and science of hiding the meaning or intent of a communication from unintended recipients. It is a very broad field with ongoing research. Many electronic applications use encryption that have a need to transmit data or hide data.
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The server is unwilling to process the request because its header fields are too large. The request MAY be resubmitted after reducing the size of the request header fields. It can be used both when the set of request header fields in total is too large, and when a single header field is at fault….
Physical controls are items you can physically touch. Examples, Laptop lock cables, door badges, motion detectors, video cameras, mantraps, alarms.
The target resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource ought to use one of the enclosed URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link references to the effective request URI to one or more of the new references sent by the server, where possible. The server…
A breach is the occurrence of a security mechanism being bypassed by a threat agent.
Layering | Defense-in-depth One of the foundations of cyber security is the use of layering, which is also know to many as defense-in-depth and is a protection mechanism. Layering is the use of applying multiple controls (security guards, firewalls, locks, etc.) in a series. This means that organizations can use layering as a method to…
The server has successfully fulfilled the request and that there is no additional content to send in the response payload body. Metadata in the response header fields refer to the target resource and its selected representation after the requested action was applied. For example, if a 204 status code is received in response to a…