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Webcasts
Come See What's New in PingFederate 5.2!
Jan 2009
Over the years, Ping Identity has strived to reduce secure Internet SSO connection times. With the number of relationships growing between organizations, their service providers, SaaS vendors,...
Provided by Ping Identity
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Webcasts
Easy Endpoint Connectivity Through SAML-Based Internet SSO
Jan 2009
A common challenge shared by Identity and Service Providers who have standardized on SAML technologies for Internet Single Sign-On often occurs when the "Partner" side of the desired SAML...
Provided by Ping Identity
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Webcasts
Data Classification and Working with Data Stakeholders
Feb 2010
Understanding business processes for the many departments within large organizations poses one of the largest challenges that information security professionals face when implementing a DLP...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Case Studies
Novell Case Study: U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command
Mar 2009
The Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) is one of several military cyber defense teams in the Department of Defense (DOD) which maintains the largest computer network in the world. Based...
Provided by Novell
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Webcasts
Best Security Practices for Safeguarding Your Customer Data
Feb 2006
This webcast explains how multi-national cyber-crime syndicates use state-of-the-art techniques to steal your data, what questions to ask your staff about your data security, how to prevent...
Provided by Internet Security Systems
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Case Studies
St. George Bank Selects Tippingpoint IPS to Protect Customer Data - And a Reputation for Service Excellence
Sep 2009
St. George Bank is a leading consumer and retail financial institution in Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 1937 as a housing-based financial institution, the bank achieved full banking status...
Provided by 3Com
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White Papers
How Monitoring End-User Experiences Transforms Experience Management
Jun 2010
Organizations are increasingly tracking service availability and response times in order to understand the level of performance that end-users are experiencing. This data will help them identify...
Provided by OpTier Inc.
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Downloads
Welcome to the CDW Security Assessment
Jul 2010
Network security is critical to organizations of all sizes and across all industries. The CDW Security Assessment can help you: Measure your network security against that of your peers...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Eight threats your anti-virus won't stop: Why you need endpoint security
Jul 2010
News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data leakage are on the rise. High-profile incidents that make big news might seem out of the ordinary. Yet businesses of every size...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Smart Strategies for Securing Extranet Access
Mar 2010
Many organizations leverage extranets to share sensitive information with partners, customers and employees. However, unlocking sensitive business data to outsiders presents access control...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Secure Managed Hosting Now Available. Protect web applications from cybercrime.
Nov 2010
How Hackable is Your Website? Achieving a secure hosting environment for confidential data starts with knowing the threats you face. Identifying vulnerabilities lets you attack them head on,...
Provided by FireHost Inc.
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White Papers
Securing Your Mobile Workforce
Nov 2010
This three-part report describes how all businesses can benefit from SaaS services, in particular the variety of services that make up hosted services from Symantec. It also provides advice, best...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Small Business Protection Guide
Jun 2010
Protecting electronic information and communications against internal and external threats, data loss, downtime, or disaster is more than just important-it's the foundation of your customer...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Can You Afford Not to Manage Mobile? How to Generate Immediate Savings from Mobile Spend
Jan 2011
According to predictions made by BoxTone in a 2010 press release, "Device and mobile delivery platform diversity will continue to expand, with most organizations moving from one mobile platform...
Provided by ProfitLine
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Case Studies
North Shore Credit Union Case Study
Aug 2012
Learn how North Shore Credit Union stays lean and agile using a hosted, secure, and private cloud solution based on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies. Their HP environment has been up 100...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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White Papers
SLA 101: What to Look for in a Service-Level Agreement
Mar 2006
Many IT administrators aren't comfortable handing over control of the most critical security components of their infrastructure. But in recent years, security outsourcing has become a popular and...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Case Studies
Whalen Furniture
Feb 2011
Growing Furniture Manufacturer Gains Visibility and Efficiency in System Protection through Automated Patch Management. With locations in the U.S., Mexico, and China, Whalen Furniture is a premier...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
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Whitepapers
Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning
Mar 2011
User-provisioning solutions are maturing in function and capability, and the user-provisioning market continues to consolidate. As some identity and access management (IAM) technologies approach a...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011
Apr 2011
This guide features articles by industry experts, analysts and top executives on subjects including an outlook for the mobile enterprise, market projections and forecasts, real-world examples of...
Provided by Sybase Inc.
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White Papers
Smart Implementation of Role-Based Access Control
Jan 2007
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is an approach to user provisioning and access control that improves security and compliance while reducing IT administrative costs. RBAC is supported by Novell...
Provided by Novell
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Webcasts
Analyzing the Security Implications of Integrated IPv4/IPv6 Networks
Apr 2007
Before agencies migrate their networks to IPv6, it is critical that they consider the security ramifications of the new platform compared to current IPv4 networks. This webcast specifies security...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Email Security in Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Jul 2011
No organization can afford to operate without an email security strategy. The risk landscape is constantly changing with new threats surfacing every day. This white paper looks at email security...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
Learning to Detect Malicious URLs
Apr 2011
Malicious web sites are a cornerstone of Internet criminal activities. The dangers of these sites have created a demand for safeguards that protect end-users from visiting them. This paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Windows Network Policy Server Fundamentals (Level 200)
Oct 2007
This webcast take a look at the Network Policy Server (NPS) in the Windows Server 2008 operating system, and it explains how to implement Network Access Protection (NAP). This webcast begins with...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Security Configuration Management: Getting Back to IT Security Basics
Oct 2012
In IT security, obvious weaknesses like weak configurations often get overlooked. Yet for hackers, they are an open door into networks and systems. Learn how security configuration management...
Provided by Tripwire
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Research
Internet Security Threat Report 2012
May 2012
Spam, phishing and malware data is captured through a variety of sources, including the Symantec Probe Network, a system of more than 5 million decoy accounts and more. Over 8 billion email...
Provided by Symantec (formerly VeriSign)
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Whitepapers
Business Guide: Securing Microsoft Exchange 2010 with Symantec SSL Certificates
Oct 2012
Now is the right time to make the move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. However, as with Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010 requires SSL certificates to ensure the security of all...
Provided by Symantec (formerly VeriSign)
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Whitepapers
Meeting the Challenges of Endpoint Security
Nov 2012
Growing businesses face real difficulties in protecting their users, especially remote workers, while keeping management costs down. Majority use some kind of anti-virus software and firewall on...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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Research
BYOD Survey Report: Mobile Threats are Real and Costly
Sep 2012
A lack of integrated mobile security is costing companies from lost productivity to lost data. In fact, 83% of IT professionals believe that mobile devices create a high security risk within the...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
GFI Case Study: Mitsubishi Polysilicon
Jan 2013
Learn how Mitsubishi Polysilicon solved their need for malware protection. Unhappy with their current antivirus product, Mitsubishi Polysilicon set out to find a malware solution that would not...
Provided by GFI Software
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Whitepapers
Samsung Life Insurance Opens A New Horizon in Server Account Management with Quest® Authentication Services
Jan 2013
Samsung Life Insurance had the critical need to overcome the security and management challenges of a heterogeneous IT infrastructure. To better protect customer privacy and more effectively manage...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Whitepapers
Networking and Cloud: An Era of Change
Aug 2012
As you deploy cloud infrastructure and operating models in your organization, the role that networking plays and the impact of these models on your networks may not always be clear. This...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
IDC Whitepaper: Gaining Business Value and ROI: Automated Change and Configuration Management
Jan 2011
The explosion of mobile devices, in a user-centric world, requires support for Windows, Mac, Android, BlackBerry, and other platforms. In order to help quantify the benefits of using LANDesk...
Provided by LANDesk Software, Inc.
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Whitepapers
How does IBM deliver cloud security?
Jan 2013
The future of cloud is virtually unlimited. But you may be apprehensive because of your concerns over security of your cloud data. Security challenges can range from governance, through to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Effective Data Leak Prevention Programs: Start by Protecting Data at the Source — Your Databases
Aug 2011
This IDC white paper presents a proactive approach to data protection. It discusses the growing threats to business information and the impact government regulations have on requiring additional...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
EXA Corporation creates a secure and resilient private cloud
Feb 2013
One of the primary reasons for slow adoption of cloud is the perceived challenge around security. For EXA Corporation, an integrated set of IBM cloud solutions for automation, security and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cisco ASA CX delivers context-aware security
Apr 2013
The 'appification' of the web and the consumerization of IT are radically changing the enterprise security landscape. The security apparatus at today’s enterprises needs to be aware not only of...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Your Enterprise Security: Critical Priorities to Consider
Apr 2013
In this informative white paper, explore the changing landscape of enterprise security. Learn why traditional security approaches fall short in the face of new and emerging workplace trends, and...
Provided by Hewlett Packard
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Whitepapers
HIPAA/HITECH Compliance for Databases: Comply fully and reduce database security risk
Dec 2012
HIPAA and HITECH require all individually identifiable protected health information (PHI) be secured. The unfortunate reality for IT professionals is that these acts of Congress aren’t...
Provided by McAfee
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Whitepapers
Analysis of RFID Mutual Authentication Protocols
Feb 2009
In order to secure RFID transactions, an authentication scheme has originally been included as part of the "EPC Gen2" industrial standard. This scheme, however, has been found to have some...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Human Identification Using Finger Print and Face Biometrics
May 2013
The objective is to compared at feature extraction level for face and fingerprint biometrics. The proposed approach is based on a compared to identify the human through, finger prints in automated...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Securing Cloud Computing Environment by Means of Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS)
May 2013
Many IT industries have adopted the cloud based computing to provide vital services to others. Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high cost...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Authentication Using Mobile Phone Generated OTP
Apr 2013
In today's world of distributed data sources and Web services, remote client authentication is very important to protect customer's sensitive data over Internet. Passwords are most common type of...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Fuzzy Logic Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks Routing Protocol
Apr 2013
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in health monitoring, tracking and security applications. Such networks are usually applying to be able to transfer data from specific areas to a nominated...
Provided by Deakin University
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Whitepapers
A Modified DES and Triple DES Algorithm for Wireless Networks
Apr 2013
The application of technological and related procedures to safeguard the security of various documents while moving on the channel is an important responsibility in electronic data systems. This...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
The Design of Vulnerability Management System
Apr 2013
As the number of users using the internet has increased, recently the internet services have been growing rapidly. And the number of attacks for the internet services has been growing rapidly...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
Alleviation of Application Layer DDoS Attacks Using Data Specification Module
Apr 2013
Distribute Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can inflict chaos on any susceptible web site. The goal of these attacks is to consume the network bandwidth and reject services to legitimate users of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
New Data Encryption Standard Algorithm
Apr 2013
A goal is the design of any encryption algorithm must be security against unauthorized attacks. Within the last decade, there has been a vast increase in the accumulation and communication of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Streaming Services and Security Issues in Peer-to-Peer Network
Apr 2013
A P2P network is a special type of computer network that exhibits self-organization, symmetric communication, and distributed control. P2P streaming systems can be classified into P2P live...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
Authentication Trust Level Network Architecture
Jan 2012
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) facilitates the dynamic and seamless integration of services offered by different service providers which in addition can be located in different trust...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Anomaly Intrusion Detection System Using Random Forests and K-Nearest Neighbor
Mar 2013
This paper proposed a new approach to design the anomaly intrusion detection system using not only misuse but also anomaly intrusion detection for both training and detection of normal or attacks...
Provided by University of Tasmania
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Whitepapers
Improving Accuracy in Decision Making for Detecting Intruders
Feb 2013
Normal host based Intrusion detection system provides the user some alerts of data integrity breach on the basis of policy violation and unauthorized access. There are some factors responsible if...
Provided by Lovely Professional University
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Whitepapers
A CRAM on Computer Networks and Security
Feb 2013
Computer networks and security plays a vital role in modern computer technology and it is essential everywhere. In this paper, the authors presented the novelty of computer networks and security...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Security Issues and Sybil Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2013
Due to broadcast nature of wireless sensor networks and lack of tamper-resistant hardware, security in sensor networks is one of the major issues. Hence research is being done on many security...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
WiMax Networks:Binary Tree Based Keying
Mar 2013
Recently, WiMAX has been proposed as an attractive wireless communication technology for providing broadband access for metropolitan areas. Undeniably, networks have become very important...
Provided by Lovely Professional University
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Whitepapers
Data Leakage Detection Using Encrypted Fake Objects
Mar 2013
Data leakage is a budding security threat to organizations, particularly when data leakage is carried out by trusted agents. In this paper, the authors present unobtrusive techniques for detecting...
Provided by K L University
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Whitepapers
A Study on Network Security Aspects and Attacking Methods
Mar 2013
Network security has become more important to personal computer users, organizations, and the military. With the advent of the internet, security became a major concern and the history of security...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Communication and Implementation of Plug and Play Enabled Devices in Sensor Network
Apr 2013
Most of sensor networks are static in nature and do not provide standardized and systematic network management capabilities. Intelligence is not associated with the sensors. In order to make a...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Honeypots for Network Security
Apr 2013
A honeypot is used in the area of computer and Internet security. It is a resource, which is intended to be attacked and computerized to gain more information about the attacker, and used tools....
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Location Privacy Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2013
In the last years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained increasing attention from both the research community and actual users. These networks are likely to be composed of hundreds, and...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Firecol: The Detection of Flooding DDoS Attacks in Network
Apr 2013
In this paper, the authors administer on the problem of DDoS attacks and present the speculative foundation, architecture, of FireCol. The center of FireCol is nonchalant of Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Policy Management in Adhoc Networks
Apr 2013
Policy-based management is based on defining a set of global rules, according to which a network or distributed system must operate. In the last few years, policy-based management has begun to...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Wireless Sensor Networks: Routing Protocols, Challenges, Solutions
May 2013
The most important evolution of the modern era is wireless sensors networks. Recent advancements in WSNs also led to the implementation of several new protocols which are to be implemented for...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Computer Virus: Their Problems & Major Attacks in Real Life
May 2013
Today's enterprise networks are distributed to different geographical locations and applications are more centrally located, information represents the most important asset. With the growing...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Comparative Analysis of Voting Schemes for Ensemble-Based Malware Detection
Mar 2013
Malicious software (malware) represents a threat to the security and the privacy of computer users. Traditional signature-based and heuristic-based methods are inadequate for detecting some forms...
Provided by Blekinge Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Securing a Space-Based Service Architecture With Coordination-Driven Access Control
Mar 2013
In distributed applications, multiple autonomous processes need to collaborate in an efficient way. Space-based middleware enables data-driven coordination for these processes via shared tuple...
Provided by Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Whitepapers
Design and Formal Analysis of a Group Signature Based Electronic Toll Pricing System
Mar 2013
Location-based vehicle services have been enduring a rapid growth with the prevalence of GNSS technologies, nowadays freely available for everyone. Given the nature of location data, privacy is of...
Provided by University of Luton
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Whitepapers
Forward-Secure Identity-Based Signature: New Generic Constructions and Their Applications
Mar 2013
As modern cryptographic schemes rely their security on the secrecy of the private keys used in them, exposing such keys results in a total loss of security. In fact, attackers have been developing...
Provided by British Telecom
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Whitepapers
From Computationally-Proved Protocol Specifications to Implementations and Application to SSH
Mar 2013
This paper presents a novel technique for obtaining implementations of security protocols, proved secure in the computational model. The authors formally specify the protocol to prove, they prove...
Provided by INRIA
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Whitepapers
Provably Protected Nested One-Time Secret Mechanisms for Rapid Mutual Certification and Key Swap in Mobile Interactions
Jul 2012
Many security mechanisms for mobile interactions have been introduced in the literature. Among these mechanisms, certification plays a quite important role in the entire mobile network system and...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Data Security in Cloud
Jul 2012
Cloud computing is a model for delivering information technology services over the Internet as per the Customers demand. Big conquerors' of IT commercial enterprise is drifting ahead for big...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Policy for Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Jul 2012
IT industry and organizations revolutionized with a staggering velocity in the last decimvir by the inlet of Cloud Computing Technology .Day by day more and more academicians, research scholars,...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Detection System Using K-SVMeans Clustering Algorithm
Jul 2012
In recent years, as the usage of internet increases, new types of attack on network information keep increasing. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is an important tool to identify various attacks...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Implementation of Honeypot Using Kerberos Authentication
Jul 2012
Implementation of Honeypot with Kerberos authentication provides a 3-step authentication process to classify white hat and black hat users. It uses an Authentication System, Ticket Granting System...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Security Issues and Vulnerabilities in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)-A Survey
Jul 2012
The MANET is a collection of mobile nodes such as laptop, palmtop, cell phones, walkie-talkie, etc., form a network. It does not have definite topology. The nodes which comprise MANET will always...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
EMA: Closing Critical IT Security Gaps for More Effective Defense
May 2013
An ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) White Paper. In the last few years, the scale and sophistication of IT security threats have grown at an explosive rate. Organizations have to contend...
Provided by FireEye
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Whitepapers
An Analysis of Cloud Model-Based Security for Computing Secure Cloud Bursting and Aggregation in Real Environment
Sep 2011
Cloud Computing has emerged as a major information and communications technology trend and has been proved as a key technology for market development and analysis for the users of several field....
Provided by ACCENTS
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Whitepapers
Analytical Approach for Analyzing Trusted Security System for Data Sharing in Cloud Environment
Sep 2011
Cheap, seemingly unlimited computing resources that can be allocated almost instantaneously and pay-as-you-go pricing schemes are some of the reasons for the success of Cloud computing .In this...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Whitepapers
A Comprehensive Study in Data Mining Frameworks for Intrusion Detection
Dec 2012
Intrusions are the activities that violate the security policy of system. Intrusion Detection is the process used to identify intrusions. Network security is to be considered as a major issue in...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Whitepapers
Prevention of Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Using Dynamic Hash Generation Technique on the Server Side
Sep 2012
Cookies are a means to provide stateful communication over the HTTP. In the World Wide Web (WWW), once the user using web browser has been successfully authenticated by the web server of the web...
Provided by ACCENTS
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White Papers
The Dirty Secret Behind the UTM: What Security Vendors Don't Want You to Know
Apr 2009
Until the late 1990s, network security threats were predominantly written by programmers seeking notoriety, or those who just wanted to test their skills and have some fun, at the expense of other...
Provided by NETGEAR
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Whitepapers
The McAfee Gateway Anti-Malware Engine: Protecting Users From Emerging Malware Threats
Jan 2009
Malware is a sophisticated business. Unlike the good old days when attacks were perpetrated by individual malcontents, today's malware developers are organized into sophisticated, disciplined...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
When Free Is Not Free: Hidden Costs in Microsoft Security Solutions
Apr 2009
One aspect of computing infrastructures that can be decoupled from network, desktop and server platforms is security. Ironically, the argument has been well made that the very security problems...
Provided by IT-Harvest
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Whitepapers
Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attacks: Best Practices for Combating Emerging Threats With Layered Security
Jul 2008
As financial institutions across the globe continue to deploy strong, multi-factor authentication, fraudsters are simultaneously developing more sophisticated ways to launch attacks and to...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Free But Fake: Rogue Anti-Malware
Feb 2009
Most antivirus products are commercial and typically offer, as is the case with ESET solutions, free trial versions for a 30-day period. This limitation is the perfect excuse for criminals to...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
The Ecology of Malware
Sep 2008
The fight against malicious software (or malware, which includes everything from worms to viruses to botnets) is often viewed as an "Arms Race." Conventional wisdom is that one must continually...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Analysis of an Attack of Web-Based Malware
Jan 2009
Internet has become an ally platform of attack for malware creators, who through the use of different techniques such as Drive-by-Download, Drive-by-Update, scripting, exploit, among others, and...
Provided by Evilfingers
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White Papers
SIFF: A Stateless Internet Flow Filter to Mitigate DDoS Flooding Attacks
Jan 2009
One of the fundamental limitations of the Internet is the inability of a packet flow recipient to halt disruptive flows before they consume the recipient's network link resources. Critical...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Live Baiting for Service-Level DoS Attackers
Jan 2009
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks remain a challenging problem in the Internet. In a DoS attack the attacker is attempting to make a resource unavailable to its intended legitimate clients....
Provided by University of Pittsburgh
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White Papers
An Anti-Phishing Application for the End User
Apr 2009
Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by 'Phishers' for their own personal gain is the primary...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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White Papers
Understanding Victims: Six Principles for Systems Security
Jun 2009
The success of many attacks on computer systems can be traced back to the security engineers not understanding the psychology of the system users they meant to protect. It examined a variety of...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Cooperative Attack and Defense in Distributed Networks
Jun 2008
Computer networks are becoming increasingly decentralized. No single entity controls the entire system; therefore, no entity can compel compliance. Peer-to-peer file sharing systems connect users...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Visual-Similarity-Based Phishing Detection
Sep 2008
Phishing is a form of online fraud that aims to steal a user's sensitive information, such as online banking passwords or credit card numbers. The victim is tricked into entering such information...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
RUST: The Reusable Security Toolkit
Jul 2008
Testing an anti-phishing technology is time-consuming. One must build real and spoofed websites that employ the technology, carefully devise a test scenario, recruit subjects, run sessions,...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
You've Been Warned: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Web Browser Phishing Warnings
Apr 2008
Many popular web browsers now include active phishing warnings since research has shown that passive warnings are often ignored. In this laboratory study the author examined the effectiveness of...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Minimizing SSO Effort in Verifying SSL Anti-Phishing Indicators
Sep 2008
In an on-line transaction, a user sends her personal sensitive data (e.g., password) to a server for authentication. This process is known as Single Sign-On (SSO). Subject to phishing and pharming...
Provided by Institute for Infocomm Research
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing in Offense and Defense
Sep 2008
Many anti-phishing mechanisms currently focus on helping users verify whether a web site is genuine. However, usability studies have demonstrated that prevention-based approaches alone fail to...
Provided by College of William and Mary
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White Papers
Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
Dec 2008
Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Increased DNS Forgery Resistance Through 0x20-Bit Encoding
Oct 2008
It describe a novel, practical and simple technique to make DNS queries more resistant to poisoning attacks: mix the upper and lower case spelling of the domain name in the query. Fortuitously,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Collaborative Detection of Fast Flux Phishing Domains
Feb 2009
Phishing is a significant security threat to users of Internet services. Nowadays, phishing has become more resilient to detection and trace-back with the invention of Fast Flux (FF) service...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Security and Results of a Large-Scale High-Interaction Honeypot
May 2009
This paper presents the design and discusses the results of a secured high-interaction honeypot. The challenge is to have a honeypot that welcomes attackers, allows userland malicious activities...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
Oct 2008
Phishing is an increasingly prevalent social-engineering attack that attempts identity theft using spoofed Web pages of legitimate organizations. Unfortunately, current phishing detection methods...
Provided by AT&T Labs-Research
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White Papers
Research Statement
Jan 2009
Today's network operators face a major challenge: spam, phishing, denial of service attacks, and even the increasing size and complexity of the network itself have made the network increasingly...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Evaluating Email's Feasibility for Botnet Command and Control
Mar 2008
The usefulness of email has been tempered by its role in the widespread distribution of spam and malicious content. Security solutions have focused on filtering out malicious payloads and weblinks...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Snooping Dragon: Social-Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement
Mar 2009
This paper says about a case of malware-based electronic surveillance of a political organisation by the agents of a nation state. While malware attacks are not new, two aspects of this case make...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Getting a Hook on Phishing
Dec 2007
Despite increased user awareness, phishing activities represent a serious threat to information security. Phishing sites are increasingly sophisticated and continue to defraud users. Computing...
Provided by Northern Kentucky University
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White Papers
Is It Too Late for PAKE?
May 2009
The most common web authentication technique in use today is password authentication via an HTML form, where a user types her password directly into a web page from the site to which she wishes to...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
BitDefender Lab Publishes First E-Threats Landscape Report
Jul 2008
BitDefender's security experts analyzed and examined the menaces of the first half of 2008, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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White Papers
As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations
Sep 2008
While botnets themselves provide a rich platform for financial gain for the botnet master, the use of infected hosts as webservers can provide an additional botnet use. Botnet herders often use...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
Towards Next-Generation Botnets
Oct 2008
This paper introduces the design of an advanced bot called Rambot that is based on the weak nesses found when tracking a diverse set of botnets over a period of several months. The main features...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
The Security Architecture of the Chromium Browser
Apr 2009
Most current web browsers employ a monolithic architecture that combines "The User" and "The Web" into a single protection domain. An attacker who exploits arbitrary code execution vulnerability...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery
Oct 2008
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a widely exploited web site vulnerability. This paper presents a new variation on CSRF attacks, login CSRF, in which the attacker forges a cross-site request...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Security Pitfalls in Stripes Web Applications
May 2009
The Stripes framework (www.stripesframework.org) is a Java web presentation framework that aims to ease the process of creating Java based web applications, by favouring defaults over verbose...
Provided by Corsaire
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White Papers
SPML: A Visual Approach for Modeling Firewall Configurations
Sep 2008
This paper describes a graphical notation for modeling security policy, currently focused on firewalls, named SPML. Using SPML, it is possible to specify graphically the security policy to be...
Provided by Unoeste - Todos os direitos reservados
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White Papers
How to Painlessly Audit Your Firewalls in Three Easy Steps: An Introduction to Automated Firewall Auditing
Nov 2008
Firewalls are the first line of defense for the business network. When the internet started to become a critical business communications tool, the firewall became the first line of defense. This...
Provided by Skybox Security
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White Papers
Reducing Costs With Next Generation Firewalls: Investing in Innovation Pays Cost Savings Dividends
Dec 2008
For enterprise IT security organizations, the evolution of applications and threats, coupled with the stagnation of traditional network security technology has resulted in a loss of visibility and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
Using Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Approach to Defend DDoS Attacks
Oct 2008
Denial of service attacks occur when the attacks are from a single host, whereas distributed denial of service attacks occur when multiple affected systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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White Papers
E-government Security: A Honeynet Approach
Apr 2009
Security is one of the most important issues in E-government. All of the security approaches that are common in E-commerce are applicable to E-government. But E-government is a little different...
Provided by Iran University of Science & Technology
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White Papers
Wireless Network Security: Vulnerabilities, Threats and Countermeasures
Jul 2008
Wireless networking provides many advantages, but it also coupled with new security threats and alters the organization's overall information security risk profile. Although implementation of...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
IT Security Strategies for SME's
Jul 2008
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is leaning more on their Information Technology (IT) infrastructure but they lack the means to secure it appropriately due to financial restrictions, limited...
Provided by Hannam university
