According to the OSI Model, the session layer is where connections are established, managed, and torn down. For connection-oriented network protocols, understanding how the session layer works ...

The OSI model is the basis for most of the modern digital communications. Let’s dive into the seven layers of the OSI model and answers the billion-dollar question: how to protect the transmitted data ...

Now we are getting somewhere. In the OSI standard, they list the principles used to determine the seven layers in the Reference Mode. (ISO/IEC 7498-1:1994, Section 6.2). Among those principles are: ...

The Data Link Layer is one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model. Like a father who loves ALL of his children equally, but in different ways, I also love the other layers, but Layer 2 will always ...

Open System Interconnection, a layered model for network transport and applications. For instance, the seventh layer in the OSI model—the Application layer—defines program to program communication, or ...

Nonetheless, the OSI model was born from a theoretical perspective, and despite its precision in encapsulating how a network functions, it ended up relinquishing the practical ground to new ...

According to Dick, it is “well known that in the OSI model, Layers 8 and 9 are typically referred to as Money and Politics.” Another reader, Tom, elaborates on these same definitions: ...

By introducing an identity-aware layer into the OSI model, it lets organizations, especially those reliant on legacy systems, adopt zero-trust principles without starting from scratch.