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Appeals court: Damn the whales, full steam ahead

It seems like every year at this time, the Navy wants to use sonar in training exercises off the California coast, and every time the issue winds up in court. This year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Navy the thumbs up, Reuters reports. There...

Tags: Panel, Sonar, Mitigation, Navy, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Victim-Assisted Mitigation Technique for TCP-Based Reflector DDoS Attacks

This paper develops the concept of victim-assistance for Denial of Service DoS mitigation. The proposed concept is utilized within a simple, yet effective scheme designed for mitigating TCP-based reflector DoS attacks. The proposed scheme, called SYN number based filtering SNF, takes into account the TCP's connection establishment behavior and the...

Tags: Technique, Iowa State University, TCP, Mitigation, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Security

White papers 2007-01-01

Building Disaster Resistant Communities

Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes - and more. Mitigation is defined...

Tags: Mitigation, Disaster Resource Guide, Strategy, Management

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Worm Mitigation Technical Details

Internet worms have had a severe impact on many enterprise customers. Recently developed tools and architectural techniques can be employed to assist with the mitigation of worm activity in an enterprise environment. This paper provides; a conceptual overview of worm mitigation techniques; details for deployment of these techniques into an...

Tags: Technique, Internet Worm, Mitigation, Tool, Productivity, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security

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Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw

Do you mean:"The vulnerability was confirmed on fully patched Windows XP SP3 systems with Internet Explorer 6 and [b]7[/b]."Also how effective is the exploit with Protected Mode and limited user account usage? I'd like to see more information on how these two mitigation techniques work against exploits. I suspect the...

Tags: Web browsers, EXPLORER, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Internet Explorer, critical IE 7 zero-day flaw, IE 7 zero-day flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, zero-day bug, exploit

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Mitigation of SAP Authorization Risks

SAP ERP systems are the core of many medium and large businesses these days. These systems administer Finance, Payroll, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources and so on. Control of these systems is handled by a concept called SAP Authorizations also referred to as authorizations or authorization objects. These authorizations establish...

Tags: Authorization, SAP AG, SECUDE, SAP ERP System

White papers 2009-10-02

Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?

Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...

Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Fraud in the U.S. Payments Industry: Fraud Mitigation and Prevention Measures in Use and Chip Card Technology Impact on Fraud

The white paper provides an overview of current fraud levels in the U.S. and of projected trends based on anticipated changes to the payments infrastructure. It focuses on credit and debit card fraud, which accounts for the vast majority of payment fraud in the U.S. Based on a cross-section of...

Tags: Payment, Industry, Fraud, Chip, Smart Card Alliance, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2009-10-01

IFYP 1.0 (Windows)

IFYP is a traceability extension addin for Word, totally integrated to the product, which enables the identification of text parts, charts or objects among the various documents of a project. From your documents, identify relevant information, build relations across documents and generate lists, traceability matrixes, impact and relation trees. Define...

Tags: Matrix, Property, Microsoft Windows, IFYP Software, IFYP, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

News to know: Skype; reCAPTCHA; Oracle Q1; Zune HD; Bing

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale Dave Greenfield: Skype Founders Sue eBay and...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Phishing, Microsoft Project, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Security, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Internet

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Jericho Forum aims to guide enterprises through risk mitigation landscape for cloud adoption

Cloud computing could be looked at the ultimate form of de-perimeterization. You no longer know even where your data is. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Project Controlling and Portfolio Management

The bigger the organization, the harder it is to obtain the overview of projects in progress. The lack of such view provides problems with effective risk prevention and mitigation. Most companies monitor punctuality of deliveries, however not all of them can be accurate in defining budgetary performance at any given...

Tags: Monitor, Portfolio Management, Verax Systems, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Monitors & Displays, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-09-11

PCI Requirements Mapping: BorderWare Security Platform Secure Content & Threat Management Platform

In a business environment where daily media reports of consumer data loss are on the rise and PCI compliance audits are placing increasing pressure on organizations to implement tools and strategies for data loss prevention, businesses can no longer afford to ignore data security. According to The Ponemon Institute, the...

Tags: Security, Data Loss, Borderware Technologies Inc., WatchGuard Technologies, Threat Management, PCI, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

Market-Leading Spanish Energy Group Turns to Intel Coreprocessor With vPro Technology for Remote PC Management

Gas Natural is one of the ten primary multinational energy companies in Europe, and a leader in the vertical integration of gas and electricity in Spain and Latin America. Gas Natural wanted to enhance service delivery to distributed workforce by ensuring optimal system operating time in desktop PC environments and...

Tags: Intel vPro, PC-management, Intel Corp., Desktops, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

Respond to Threats Rapidly

The threat landscape is evolving dynamically. Today's attacks are more targeted and malicious than ever before. Here's what one can do to respond to these attacks and ensure the organization is protected. Symantec is the worldwide leader in comprehensive endpoint protection. In 2008, Symantec responded to an average of more...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Attack, Security

Webcasts 2009-08-13

Secure Auditor 2.0.1258 (Windows)

Secure Auditor is a Unified Risk Management Solution which enables user to perform Enumeration, Scanning, Auditing, Penetration Testing and Forensics on different operational systems from single console with 30 embedded Utilities like Cisco Configuration Manager, Oracle Password Auditor, Windows Password Auditor, Oracle Event Log Viewer, Windows Event Log Viewer, Oracle...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Secure Bytes, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-06

Adobe 'zero-day' flaw is eight months old

The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe's security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 see image below but it was misdiagnosed as a "data loss corruption" issue. When word of the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Flaw, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-24

HIPAA gone wild?

Hitting the hospital with the maximum is a bit excessive, but authorities want everyone in the system to know they're as serious as a heart attack concerning violations of the law. So an appeals process and mitigation seems like a good idea. But no, HIPAA hasn't gone wild. by Dana...

Tags: Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Adobe Flash zero-day attack underway; Harden PDF Reader immediately

Malicious hackers have found a new vulnerability in Adobe's ever-present Flash software and are using rigged PDF documents to launch exploits against Windows targets. The Adobe Flash Player flaw, which is currently unpatched, affects millions of Windows XP and Windows Vista users.  Adobe has acknowledged a "potential...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Implementing Enterprise-Wide Risk Reduction Across Operational and Financial Processes

The ultimate goal of Risk Management is targeted at reducing any factor that represents a threat to a company attaining its strategic objectives. The desired outcome is to reduce the variability in the organization's process execution and thus produce more predictable financial and operational results. The scope of the financial...

Tags: Financial, Variability, Risk Management, Syntex Management Systems, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2009-07-22