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• Hardening: Actions to increase security by reducing the vulnerability of a workstation, server, and network from exploitation.
• Heat sink: A device that attaches directly to a CPU to dissipate excess heat.
• Hextet: A grouping of 16-bits representing 4 hexadecimal value.
• High availability (HA): A system operating and available a predominant percentage of the time.
• High-level formatting (HLF): Adds the structures the OS uses for partitions or logical volumes.
• Horizontal cable: This is the cabling that connects the networking devices on a single level of a facility, such as a floor or story, to the facility's backbone.
• Host bus adapter (HBA): Provides a connecting point for peripheral devices to a computer.
• Host-based firewall: A firewall or security device on a network-connected host
• HOSTS file: On a Windows system, this provides a localhost DNS-type of lookup to provide the...