Secplicity Blog - Cybersecurity Insights

A port is a made-up, or logical, endpoint for a connection, and ports allow the Internet to handle multiple applications over the same wires. Your system figures out how to treat data coming at it partially by looking at what port the data is destined for.

An IP is a numeric identifier that represents a computer or device on a network. Your computer's IP is like your home's mailing address.

Here's how IP routing works, and some suggestions for gaining deeper understanding of IP.