Computerworld

The Physical Layer: Understanding the OSI Model

Thanks for your comments on my first EtherGeek post on understanding the OSI Model. I especially enjoyed learning new ways to remember the OSI Model; for example: Please Do Not Throw Stale Pizza Away.
Computerworld

The Data Link Layer: Understanding one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model

A couple posts ago, we talked about Layer 1 of the OSI Model — the Physical Layer. Today, we’ll start our climb up the Model with a visit to Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. The Data Link Layer is one of ...

The 8th Layer Of The OSI Model: The Human Risk

No matter how advanced our cybersecurity defenses become, it’s the human layer that makes decisions, mistakes and oversights.
PC Magazine

presentation layer

The processing in a network protocol that provides the conversion of codes and formats for the session (if required). The presentation layer is layer 6 of 7 in the OSI model. See TCP/IP and OSI model.
Semiconductor Engineering

OSI’s Model For Security

Peeling back the layers of IoT devices reveals most of them are nothing more than what are already on the Internet in the form of present-day M2M devices. In just six years, according to Cisco Systems ...