AWK is actually a programming language which is specially designed for processing texts. The name “AWK” is derived from the family name of its authors – Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. AWK is by default available on most Linux distributions. We can check whether it is present by using the “which” command. AWK […]

Disk quotas can be used to limit the amount of disk space or the number of files allocated to a user or members of a group. This prevents one user or group of users from consuming all of the available disk space. It is very useful in large multi-user environment. Types of quotas Usage quota […]

What is IIS? IIS stands for Internet Information Services. It was formerly known as Internet Information Server. Actually IIS is an extensible web server created by Microsoft for use with Windows NT family. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, etc. Let us see how the SSL certificate installation can be done in Microsoft IIS […]

Secure communication channels are essential for transmission of sensitive data through the Internet. Hence SSL installation is a bare necessity for websites which offers online transactions. In majority cases, customers reach to your store through a non-secure version of the website, it leaves them at a vulnerable position to divulge his/her sensitive information such as […]

What is HSTS? HSTS is a web security policy by which the website inform the browsers that it should never load the site using HTTP but only using HTTPS protocol. This security feature helps the secure HTTPS web servers to be protected against downgrade attacks (also known as SSL stripping attacks). SSL Stripping Now you […]