Define “Squashed Sausage Effect”

Define “Tribal Knowledge”

HiPPO = Highest Paid Person’s Opinion Used to describe the decision from the opinion or point of view a senior manager instead of using data or technical knowledge. Not necessarily derogatory IF the HIPPO’s opinion is well informed and a choice between available options of equal value or capability. More commonly, a senior executive will [...]

BUM = Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast. Generic term to describe the three types of Ethernet modes: Broadcast Ethernet Unicast Ethernet Multicast Ethernet In all Layer 2 networking, the broadcast and multicast modes are major scaling challenges and create single failure domains. The term BUM is used extensively in L2 DCI discussions.

Define Oxford Comma

I’ve often used the word malfeasance when writing security papers but today I learned that many forms “feasance:

Define Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

Define “Run That Up the Flagpole”

Define a “Wombat” project.