Most people agree that reading through a stack of governmental standards - full of proclamations, legal jargon, acronyms, and technical specifications - is quite laborious. Few information security professionals, however, survive without them. Standards form the backbone of communication systems, describing (if not requiring) the detailed requirements for interoperability. One needs only to consider the Internet to perceive the importance. The Internet Protocol (IP), considered the fundamental network standard, allows millions of computers to communicate. Many other Internet protocols (e.g., TCP, X.509, and IPSec) serve critical roles in specifying how IP packets are controlled, authenticated, and encrypted.
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