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Strengthen RFID Tags Security Using New Data Structure

RFID was first proposed as a technology for the automatic identification of objects. However, some recent RFID devices can provide additional objects information and can be used for other applications. Security requirement is essential in most of the applications. An essential research challenge is to provide efficient protection for RFID...

Tags: University Of Stavanger, Security Requirement, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-12-03

Security Is in the Air: Complying With the PCI DSS V1.2 Standard

The PCI DSS v1.2 standard defines mandatory requirements that must be met by all organizations that accept credit and debit cards. The standard's strict wireless LAN security requirements impact firewalls, authentication and encryption methods, monitoring and management systems, and can in some instances require costly and complex upgrades to existing...

Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Aruba Networks, Wireless Security, Wireless, PCI, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-16

PCI DSS and HIPAA: The Security Standards Share Common Ground

One of the greatest challenges that the electronic transactions industry faces today is the issue of security requirements under various rules and regulations. For most people in the industry, the issue is focused on the specifics of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS, but the issue may...

Tags: CSRSI, Government, Hardware, Healthcare, Hipaa, Human Resources, PCI, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security Requirement, Security Standard, Storage

White papers 2007-08-01

Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall Policy Specification and Analysis

Firewalls are important perimeter security mechanisms that implement an organisation's network security requirements and can be notoriously difficult to configure correctly. Given their widespread use, it is crucial that network administrators have tools to translate their security requirements into firewall configuration rules and ensure that these rules are consistent with...

Tags: Security Requirement, Network, Specification, Perimeter Security, Analysis, Imperial College London, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2006-07-26

Networks on wheels

More and more cars and trucks are equipped with some kinds of wireless networking devices, helping to create applications based on vehicle to vehicle communications. But these types of networks present some new security challenges because of the short contact times between different mobile nodes and of the large size...

Tags: network, security

Blog posts 2006-02-01

Security Requirements in Service Oriented Architectures for Ubiquitous Computing

This work presents a detailed analysis of the security requirements for Service Oriented Architecture in mobile computing, still missing in the current literature. The purpose of this work is twofold. First, to provide protocol architects and software engineers with a map of security requirements in ubiquitous computing, through the evaluation...

Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Ubiquitous Computing, SOA, Association For Computing Machinery, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-02-20

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Your top Windows 7 questions, answered

If we wanted tech stats on Linux we know the URLNever ceases to amaze me that people search for ways to say a whole lot of absolutely nothing relevant. Must be because they don't have an answer so they change topics. Typical!You beat me to it Ed!!!nt64-bit environment...

Tags: Network technology, Linux, Operating systems, Linux Distro, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Win7Zilla 2.0 (Windows)

Win7zilla is one of the world's first security and tweaking software for Windows 7. It's a comprehensive, all-in-one utility software to meet all your system maintenance requirements. All settings in Win7Zilla can be applied with immediate effect unlike other tweaking software. System Restarting is not a requirement, which improves system...

Tags: Sagitos, Win7Zilla 2.0, Win7zilla, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Windows 7 in action: a closer look at Windows XP Mode

Now that's coolSo XP apps can be run directly on the desktop? Now that's cool :).How is this different than Virtual PC?Ed, I have XP running under MS Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista Business x64 machine. How is this different? I know that I had to supply...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows XP Mode, virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

8 reasons I like the Motorola Cliq Android smartphone and 7 reasons I don't

"Surface" is not a transitive verb.Sheesh.That's incorrect.You'd know that if you ever surfaced your driveway with asphalt.RE: 8 reasons I like the Motorola Cliq Android smartphone and 7 reasons I don'tSo what about someone who is not a social social networking fanatic but likes good access to email and facebook...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Cellular phones, smart phone, phone, carrier, SIM card, Apple iPhone, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Double-screen laptop appears in Japan

Try using that on an airplane!I can't even open my 13" laptop when sitting in the cheap seats!It's an interesting concept, though I wonder about durability. My laptops take a lot of beating, especially with the airport security requirement that you take it out of the bag. That one rule...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Double-screen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Ok, ill buy that..Yes Two-factor authentication doesnt help avoid the already infected. Now what the bank SHOULD have one other than the user having a fully patched system and AV if hes on Windows is when the website detected that there was activity from another IP address - represented another...

Tags: Financial services, Security administration, bank, two-factor authentication, banker malware

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Google exec calls for ISPs to get tough on botnets

I can't agree with a requirement for active A/V.I don't need nor want useless A/V software on my systems.Its inappropriate for an ISP to scan MY machine..for paid access to the interent (when they want to claim they are a "dumb pipe"). If I am spewing out malware - sure,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, A/V, malware, operating system, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

From Gimmiv to Conficker: The lucrative MS08-067 flaw

Danger Will Robinson, Danger.[i]By December 2009, a second variant appeared with new propagation techniques ? spreading via removable and mapped drives, and network shares with weak passwords. This updated worm also started blocking access to anti-virus and security-related sites.[/i]You either have a typo or a time machine. December...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Patches, Common-sense, Microsoft Corp., financial danger, computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Security Separation of Multi-Core Processors

The semiconductor industry has arguably reached the point where security is not just an application level requirement, but a processor level requirement as well. A small but specialized industry has addressed several government needs for high speed classified processing, but more is needed. Specialized ASIC design with electromagnetic and air...

Tags: Multi-core Processor, Security, CPU Technology Inc., Multi-core, Firewalls, ASICs, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-09-22

Max Baucus opens his kimono

PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, office visit, health insurance, kimono

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing

Point of clarification He was convicted of sodomy, not homosexuality. There is a difference.Indeed he wasHe was convicted of sodomy - but as I wrote, this was covered under an act of law (which for the life of me, cannot find a link or a name of the act of...

Tags: monarch, homosexuality

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Malicious Software Prevention for NERC CIP-007 Compliance: Protective Controls for Operating Systems and Supporting Applications

Utilities attempting to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation "Critical Infrastructure Protection" NERC CIP requirements have encountered an unexpected, but very serious conundrum in the cyber-security realm: should they strive to meet the spirit or letter of the regulations? The potential penalties are compelling, up to $1,000,000 per day...

Tags: Operating System, Requirement, Malicious Software, Cybersecurity, CoreTrace, Security

White papers 2009-08-27

The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management: (and the Technology That Can Take Us There)

As the Security Information and Event Management SIEM market has matured, products within the market have lost the ability to quickly respond to threatening situations, and no longer meet the requirement to be a real-time decision support system RTDSS. The root cause of the problem is the woefully inadequate scalability...

Tags: NitroSecurity, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Security, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-08-19