What is vendor diversity and why would a company employ this concept? Where are the benefits?

Information Technology by Geoffrey

Discussion Question – Discuss ONE of the Following Topics:

  1. What is vendor diversity and why would a company employ this concept? Where are the benefits?
  2. Some administrators want to monitor 100% of the transmission activity on their system. Is this possible and why would this be done? Is it overkill?
  3. DNS used to be an add-on service utilized as the Internet became more prominently used. Now it is commonplace and more of a basic service needed for network control. Why is that? Why was it not as necessary back then, but is now paramount to connectivity?
  4. What is the difference between IMAP and POP protocols? When or where are they used?
  5. What is Fuzz testing and when should you use it? What does the output of the test provide?
  6. How do you harden Web servers? What considerations come into play when you harden Web servers?