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Acer  Founded September 1976.  Website  Wikipedia       

Advanced Encryption Standard - Cipher Block Chaining (AES-CBC) Used with IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP). Published September 2003.  RFC 3602         

Blue Origin  Founded September 2000 by Jeff Bezos.  Website  Wikipedia       

Cisco Unified Computer System (Cisco USC) Line of scalable servers form Cisco. Announced March 2009. First installed September 1, 2009.  Wikipedia  Cisco Press Release       

Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5 8M Cache, 2.80 GHz. Mobile CPU from Intel. Releaseed September 2015.  Intel ARK  Wikipedia       

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Used by diagnostic tools such as ping and traceroute. Defined in RFC 792 September, 1981.  Wikipedia  RFC 792       

Khan Academy Non-profit educational organization that provides "...a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere." Founded by Salman Khan in September of 2006.  Website  Wikipedia  YouTube (Khan Academy)     

NIST SP 800 30 framework Guide for conducting risk assessments. Rev. 1 published September 2012.  Website  Wikipedia       

Nmap (Network Mapper) Free and open source port scanning utility used for network discovery and security auditing. Written by Gordon Lyon. Published September 1997.  Website  Wikipedia       

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) Published and maintained a sequence of standards for parallel communication peripheral interfaces in laptops, notably the PC Card (PCMCIA card), and the ExpressCard, all of which are technologically obsolete. Founded September 1989. Dissolved in 2009. Activities now managed by the USB Implementer's Forum.  Wikipedia         

Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) QoS IntServ mechanism that reserves resources for an integrated services internet.  Operates at OSI Layer 4 (transport). Defined in RFC 2205 September 1997.  Wikipedia  RFC 2205       

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Transport layer protocol similar to TCP and UDP. Standardized by IETF in RFC 4960 September 2007.  RFC 4960  Wikipedia       

X11 Version of the X Window System. X11 since September 1987.  Wikipedia         

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