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IGES

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• Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)

  Short for interior gateway protocol, IGP is a generic term for a routing protocol that is used to exchange routing information among routers in an autonomous network, such as an enterprise LAN. IGPs typically support confined geographical areas. RIP and OSPF are two examples of an IGP. Compare with EGP.

• IGMP

  Internet Group Management Protocol is defined in RFC 1112 as the standard for IP multicasting in the Internet. It’s used to establish host memberships in particular multicast groups on a single network. The mechanisms of the protocol allow a host to inform its local router, using Host Membership Reports, that it wants to receive messages […]

• IHS

  Short for Internal Hostile Structured, it is a threat defined by Symantec Corporation to mean an individual or group within an organization that is motivated to disrupt mission operations or exploit assets. An IHS threat is unlikely to act but has the greatest potential to cause damage. An example of an IHS threat might be […]

• IHU

  Short for Internal Hostile Unstructured, it is a threat defined by Symantec Corporation to mean an individual within an organization who has physical access to network components. An IHU threat might lack the skills to launch a sophisticated attack, and instead might deploy common viruses. Contrast with IHS (InternalHostile Structured).

• IHV

  (pronounced as separate letters) Short for Independent hardware vendor, a hardware-manufacturing company that specializes in a specific type of hardware device and not a complete computer system. The IHV typically also provides the software drivers for its hardware devices. Contrast with OEM.

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