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Published inOct 2022
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ISBN-139781789953480
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Yoram Orzach
Yoram Orzach
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Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach is a senior networks and networks security advisor, providing network design and network security consulting services to a range of clients. Having spent thirty years in network and information security, Yoram has worked as a network and security engineer across many verticals in roles ranging from a network engineer, security consultant, and instructor. Yoram has gained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Yoram's experience is both with corporate networks; service providers and Internet service providers' networks. His customers are Motorola solutions, Elbit Systems, 888, Taboola, Bezeq, PHI Networks, Cellcom, Strauss group, and many other hi-tech companies.
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Deepanshu Khanna
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Deepanshu Khanna

Deepanshu Khanna is a 29-year-old information security and cybercrime consultant and a pioneer in his country. The young and dynamic personality of Deepanshu has not only assisted him in handling information security and cybercrimes but also in creating awareness about these things. He's a hacker appreciated by the Indian government, including the Ministry of Home Affairs and Defence, police departments, and many other institutes, universities, globally renowned IT firms, magazines, and newspapers. He started his career by presenting a popular hack of GRUB at HATCon. He also conducted popular research in the fields of intruder detection software (IDS) and Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) and demonstrated MD5 collisions and buffer overflows, among other things. His work has been published in various magazines such as pentestmag, Hakin9, e-Forensics, SD Journal, and hacker5. He has been invited as a guest speaker to public conferences such as DEF CON, ToorCon, OWASP, HATCon, H1hackz, and many other universities and institutes.
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  1. An upper-layer packet will be encapsulated in a lower-layer packet data field for transmission (for example, TCP inside IP or IP inside Ethernet).
    1. This is always correct.
    2. This only applies in the LAN.
    3. This only applies in the WAN.
    4. This only applies when moving from the LAN to the WAN.
  2. What is the purpose of the STP?
    1. Disabling LAN switch ports for performance enhancements
    2. Creating loops in order to enable redundancy
    3. Setting port redundancy between switches
    4. Preventing loops in a LAN
  3. Which best describes the differences between TCP and UDP?
    1. TCP and UDP both have sequencing but UDP is connectionless.
    2. TCP is a reliable connection-oriented protocol, while UDP is an unreliable connectionless protocol.
    3. Both TCP and UDP are connection-oriented, but only TCP uses windowing.
    4. TCP is connection-oriented; UDP uses acknowledgments only.
  4. What layer in the OSI-RM defines end-to-end connectivity between end processes?
    1. The Physical layer
    2. The Network layer
    3. The Transport layer
    4. The Application...
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Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach is a senior networks and networks security advisor, providing network design and network security consulting services to a range of clients. Having spent thirty years in network and information security, Yoram has worked as a network and security engineer across many verticals in roles ranging from a network engineer, security consultant, and instructor. Yoram has gained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Yoram's experience is both with corporate networks; service providers and Internet service providers' networks. His customers are Motorola solutions, Elbit Systems, 888, Taboola, Bezeq, PHI Networks, Cellcom, Strauss group, and many other hi-tech companies.
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Deepanshu Khanna

Deepanshu Khanna is a 29-year-old information security and cybercrime consultant and a pioneer in his country. The young and dynamic personality of Deepanshu has not only assisted him in handling information security and cybercrimes but also in creating awareness about these things. He's a hacker appreciated by the Indian government, including the Ministry of Home Affairs and Defence, police departments, and many other institutes, universities, globally renowned IT firms, magazines, and newspapers. He started his career by presenting a popular hack of GRUB at HATCon. He also conducted popular research in the fields of intruder detection software (IDS) and Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) and demonstrated MD5 collisions and buffer overflows, among other things. His work has been published in various magazines such as pentestmag, Hakin9, e-Forensics, SD Journal, and hacker5. He has been invited as a guest speaker to public conferences such as DEF CON, ToorCon, OWASP, HATCon, H1hackz, and many other universities and institutes.
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