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Implementing Effective End-Point Security and Data Encryption in the Modern IT Environment

The IT security world has changed. Web 2.0, hybrid malware and advanced hacking techniques are now part of the threat landscape. Add in the fact that organised criminal gangs are now operating relatively freely on the Internet and in the real world, and it's no small wonder that the average...

Tags: IT Environment, IT Security, Reed Elsevier Inc., Information Technology, Data Encryption, Encryption, IT Security World, Asset Management, Strategy, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Webcasts 2009-08-01

Extend Your IT Security to Deal With the Social Generation and the New Internet

The attendee of this webcast will explain the benefits and the security threats that the social generation internet poses the organisation. The presenter will show the popular methods used to infect, steal and use personal data using the new internet applications, the impacts to both the user, the services themselves...

Tags: IT Security, Webcast, Reed Elsevier Inc., Information Technology, Internet, Security

Webcasts 2009-06-23

A Survey of MAC Based QoS Implementations for WiMAX Networks

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of proposed Quality of Service QoS mechanisms in the Media Access Control MAC sublayer of WiMAX based wireless networks. QoS support in WiMAX is a fundamental design requirement, and is considerably more difficult than in wired networks, mainly because of the variable and unpredictable...

Tags: QoS, MAC, Reed Elsevier Inc., Survey, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-06-10

Tapping Into the Power of Unified Communications Securely

Unified Communications has become a powerful mainstream business resource, permitting rapid and cost-effective communication between internal and external staff alike. But, along with improved productivity, the use of Unified Communications software such as Microsoft Office Communications Server OCS has brought with it a new range of security threats that few...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Unified Communications, Collaboration, Security

Webcasts 2009-05-05

Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users From Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks

High-profile data breaches frequent the headlines, with countless smaller incidents happening almost daily. Data is under attack, and the frequency of assaults and sophistication of the methods employed are increasing. Rather than targeting the network directly, hackers often exploit the most vulnerable part of the security ecosystem - the users....

Tags: IT Security, Reed Elsevier Inc., Information Technology, Attack, Security, Phishing, Spam And Phishing

Webcasts 2009-04-16

Engendering Effective Web Security on a Tight Budget (or How to Have Your Security Cake and Eat It)

The Internet has changed beyond anything could have foreseen just five years ago. It is no longer a browsing medium: it is full of Web 2.0 applications, real time communications challenges and a whole range of threats that are designed to piggy back on this new usage. The presenters of...

Tags: Web, Reed Elsevier Inc., Web Security, Internet, Web 2.0, Security

Webcasts 2009-03-24

From Web Browsing to Social Networking: Securing Employee Internet Use in a Web 2.0 World

The Internet has changed. It is no longer about e-mail and web browsing. Instead Internet traffic is dominated by Web 2.0 applications such as Video, Voice, IM Instant Messaging, P2P, and social networking. These consumer-oriented applications are introduced by employees in the workplace to gain efficiencies, but they circumvent existing...

Tags: Web, Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, Web 2.0, Internet, Channel Management, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion

Webcasts 2009-01-22

Flexible Forward Error Correction Codes With Application to Partial Media Data Recovery

Conventionally, linear block codes designed for packet erasure correction are targeted to recover all the lost source packets per block, when the fraction of lost data is smaller than the redundancy overhead. However, these codes fail to recover any lost packets, if the number of erasures just exceeds the limit...

Tags: Data Recovery, Reed Elsevier Inc., Media, Storage Management, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-12-30

Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility

With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology ICT over the last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, and telephony). This computing utility, like all other four existing utilities, will provide the basic level...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Information Technology, Utility, Vision, Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

White papers 2008-12-11

Making Threat Management More Manageable

Human factors, often unaccounted for and masked by IDS products, and operations in the trenches, can create holes in intelligence coverage and performance gaps in incident operations. But, what role, in these modern integrated IT security times, does IDS plan in the great scheme of things? This webcast will help...

Tags: Performance, Reed Elsevier Inc., Threat Management, Performance Management, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2008-11-18

Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Systems

Off late technological advances have motivated large-scale deployment of RFID systems. However, a number of critical design issues relating to efficient detection of tags remain unresolved. This paper addresses three important problems associated with tag detection in RFID systems: accurately detecting RFID tags in the presence of reader interference (reader...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-07-08

Value-Based Predicate Filtering of XML Documents

Publish-subscribe systems based on XML filtering have received much attention in ubiquitous computing environments and Internet applications. The main challenge is to process a large number of content against millions of user subscriptions. Several XML filtering systems focus on the efficient processing of structural matching of user subscriptions represented as...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., XML Document, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-06-27

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

This paper considers generation of graphs that represent specific scenarios that appear in wireless ad hoc, actuator, sensor and Internet networks. Most simulation studies for these networks use connected random unit disk graphs generated by placing nodes randomly and independently from each other. However, in real life usually networks are...

Tags: Graph, Reed Elsevier Inc., Mobile, Network, Mobile Computing, Networking

White papers 2008-05-09

Two Layer Denial of Service Prevention on SIP VoIP Infrastructures

The emergence of Voice over IP VoIP has offered numerous advantages for end users and providers alike, but simultaneously has introduced security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks not previously encountered in networks with a closed architecture like the Public Switch Telephone Network PSTN. This paper proposes two layer architecture to prevent...

Tags: Denial Of Service, SIP, Reed Elsevier Inc., Attack, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Emerging Technologies, Networking

White papers 2008-03-28

A Framework for Fast RFID Tag Reading in Static and Mobile Environments

A framework for reducing the average reading time of passive RFID tags in dense environments is introduced. The proposed framework termed Accelerated Frame Slotted ALOHA AFSA can be used in conjunction with almost all RFID tag reading protocols that are based on frame slotted ALOHA. It is shown that AFSA...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Mobile, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-01-02

ABridges: Scalable, Self-Con?guring Ethernet Campus Networks

This paper describes a scalable, self-configuring architecture for campus networks, the ABridges architecture. It is a two-tiered hierarchy of layer two switches in which network islands running independent rapid spanning tree protocols communicate through a core formed by island root bridges ABridges. ABridges use AMSTP, a simplified and self con-figuring...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, Networking

White papers 2007-11-06

From UML State Charts to DEVS State Machines Using XML

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for system design and prototyping is practiced today both in the industry and academia. Modeling and Simulation are two different areas altogether and have specific objectives. However, most of the times these two separate areas are taken together. The developed code is tightly woven around and...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., XML, UML, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-09-06

Automatic Grid Assembly by Promoting Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Grids

Currently, most computational grids systems allowing transparent sharing of computing resources across organizational boundaries are assembled using human negotiation. This procedure does not scale well, and is too inflexible to allow for large open grids. Peer-to-peer grids present an alternative way to build grids with many sites. However, to actually...

Tags: Incentive, Collaboration, Reed Elsevier Inc., P2P, Sales Force Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Sales, Internet

White papers 2007-07-25

Offline/Realtime Traffic Classification Using Semi-Supervised Learning

Identifying and categorizing network traffic by application type is challenging because of the continued evolution of applications, especially of those with a desire to be undetectable. The diminished effectiveness of port-based identification and the overheads of deep packet inspection approaches motivate us to classify traffic by exploiting distinctive flow characteristics...

Tags: Application, Reed Elsevier Inc., Productivity, Networking

White papers 2007-07-13

Federated Grid Clusters Using Service Address Routed Optical Networks

Clusters of computers have emerged as cost-effective parallel and/or distributed computing systems for computationally intensive tasks. Normally, clusters are composed of high performance computational nodes linked together by low-latency/high-bandwidth interconnection networks. With the advent of modern optical networking technologies, geographically distant clusters can be federated to yield systems considered tightly-coupled....

Tags: Optical Network, Reed Elsevier Inc., Distributed Computing, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Telecommunications

White papers 2007-05-05