W
warm site

The most common type of alternate site used by organizations, which provides a computer environment with the necessary power and connectivity resources so that computers and other hardware can quickly be moved into the site if necessary because of a disaster.

well-known ports

Port numbers ranging from 0 to 1023 that are that most commonly used ports utilized by computers, applications, and protocols.

wide area network

A network that is used to connect LANs to other LANs. Typically, the connection speeds are much slower compared with a LAN.

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

A protocol designed to improve upon WEP with enhanced data encryption and secure authentication.

Windows 9x

A term used to refer to the Windows client operating ...

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