Anyone who spent late nights playing video games in their friend’s dorm remembers the joys of setting up a local-area network (LAN) in the days before Wi-Fi. While setting up multiple LANs made for a fun night of gaming with friends, setting up multiple networks on a single router offers a number of vital benefits to today’s businesses and IT professionals.
But given the headaches of deploying and maintaining just a single network on a router, many network admins – or just those managing networks at home – tend to shy away from configuring multiple LANs on a single router.
As a business leader, you’ve learned firsthand that the cornerstone of any great team is the people. Without a talented, committed team, it’s difficult — if not impossible — to meet your organizational goals.
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is considered by most organizations to be the premiere certification for proving your knowledge of proper project management skills and understanding of project management methodology. As a project manager and project management instructor for almost 20 years, I can tell you that having the PMP is an incredible boost to your career and helps to open doors to many opportunities worldwide.
Just as doctors must probe their patients to uncover hidden maladies or diseases, so too must companies probe their networks, systems, applications, and web assets to uncover weaknesses subject to possible hacking. The practice is called Penetration Testing, or pen testing for short. As with all issues relating to security, there are optimal ways of conducting pen tests and less than ideal ways.
