4] NTP (Network Time Protocol) explained NTP, like SNMP, is also an application layer protocol. Still, it is used for clock synchronization on a TCP/IP network between the hosts. The overall ...

That includes Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP. It has been in use since the 1980s and remains one of the most commonly used communications standards for good reason.

IoT standards, protocols and technologies explained.AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) AMQP is an open source standard that allows disparate applications to talk to each other across any ...

Network covert channels allow two entities to communicate stealthily. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), accounting for approximately half of all traffic on the Internet (Burke, 2007), has become the ...

The Interledger Protocol (ILPv4) lies at the heart of Interledger, defining how nodes transfer value across the network. It employs a request/response paradigm, using compact ILPv4 data packets as ...

The researcher behind the five critical Cisco flaws, collectively called CDPwn, talks about why Layer 2 protocols are under-researched when it comes to security vulnerabilities.