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Security and the OSI Model

Network security is a topic that reaches far beyond the realm of firewalls, passwords, and user ID accounts. For a network and data to remain secure there must be protective measures at each level in the OSI interconnect model. While each layer basically operates autonomously of the other it is important to ensure that the data being transmitted from the host to destination has not been tampered with or is being prevented from reaching its destination. There are seven level to the OSI interconnect model; each with its own special tasks, abilities, and weaknesses.
There are seven layers in the OSI interconnect model; they are the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application layers. Layer one the physical layer deals with the actual physical connections to the real world. All of the wires, power cords, and hardware that make up the physical portions of a network are part of the physical layer. There are several......

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