Active Directory makes the data available to network users and administrators
by providing the methods for storing data.
It stores information about user names, passwords, phone numbers, etc., and enables other
authorized users to access
this information. It also stores information about the objects on the network and makes it
easy for the administrators
and users to find and use this information.
WAF
Web Application Firewall is a control system used to protect Web applications
from malicious intrusions. A WAF can be
network based or cloud based and can be customized using predefined rules to accept/reject
HTTP requests. It can also
prevent XSS, SQL injection attacks and buffer overflows.
HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is the widely used protocol over the internet,
which is a standard for transferring files
on the World Wide Web. To acquire information from the web, the user indirectly makes use of
HTTP that runs over the
TCP/IP, where the user’s browser is the client and it communicates with the web server.
AWS
Amazon Web Services enables users to have at their allocation, a virtual
cluster of computers through internet,
available all the time. AWS system also virtualizes its console I/O allowing AWS subscribers
to connect to their AWS
system using a modern browser.
