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Clustering and Queue Replication
Aug 2009
This BorderWare Technology paper details the unique, native features and functionalities that support the multiple levels of redundancy available with the BorderWare Security Platform. The...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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E-Profiling for Instant-On Data Loss Prevention: Instant and Accurate Policy Creation and Discovery
Aug 2009
BorderWare Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has been specifically designed for organizations to quickly and affordably discover, monitor, remediate, manage and report on the Email andWeb content leaving...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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The New Business Architecture: Making the Most of Business 2.0
Sep 2009
The era of business 2.0 is already upon all and companies that are not embracing it will be left behind. The challenge for CIOs is to ensure their business architecture is 2.0 ready and secure...
Provided by SonicWALL
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The Advantages of Multi-Core UTM: How to Break Through the Speed Barriers to Real-Time Comprehensive Threat Protection
Sep 2008
Network communications no longer just rely on store and-forward applications like e-mail. It has now grown to include real-time collaboration tools, Web 2.0 applications, Instant Messenger (IM)...
Provided by SonicWALL
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Microsoft Online Services Security and Compliance Operational Certification Initiative
Feb 2009
Global Foundation Services (GFS) provides the infrastructure for Microsoft's online services. GFS has streamlined the manner in which compliance with relevant security and privacy standards is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Third Brigade: A New Approach to Addressing Regulatory Compliance
Nov 2007
This paper reviews key information security mandates and the common compliance threads that exist among them. It also explores the benefits of adopting the right technology to help enable security...
Provided by Third Brigade
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The Need for Secure Software
Aug 2008
While security awareness, training, and education, are, in and of themselves, powerful in influencing people's behavior and giving them the knowledge to be and stay secure, a stunning combination...
Provided by ISC
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Application Whitelisting: A New Security Paradigm
Jul 2008
With a defense-?in-?depth strategy in place complete with an Endpoint Security v1.0 (i.e., blacklisting) antivirus solution, personal firewall, and up-to-date security patches - endpoint security...
Provided by CoreTrace
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Malicious Software Prevention for NERC CIP-007 Compliance: Protective Controls for Operating Systems and Supporting Applications
Aug 2009
Utilities attempting to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation "Critical Infrastructure Protection" (NERC CIP) requirements have encountered an unexpected, but very serious...
Provided by CoreTrace
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CoreTrace Continues to Knock Down Application Whitelisting Barriers
Jul 2009
Off late CoreTrace, a leader in application whitelisting announced new technology enhancements to ease the deployment and implementation of its flagship BOUNCER product. Endpoint anti-malware...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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Hardening Critical Systems at Electrical Utilities: Meeting Regulatory Requirements Through Endpoint Controls
Jul 2008
Securing nation's critical power infrastructure has never been more important. Electrical power utilities generate and distribute the energy that is needed to drive the economy, as well as daily...
Provided by NetSPI
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Why You Need an Incident Response Plan
Sep 2009
Between them, CERT and SANS represent a tremendous amount and quality of resources to help one create a customized Incident Response Plan. One may not be smiling when one get word of a data...
Provided by NetSPI
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Why NIST Certification Is Important to Your Company
Jul 2008
The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines the standard for strong encryption, and provides a rigorous testing process for software vendors. This paper discusses why this is...
Provided by PATRICK TOWNSEND SECURITY SOLUTIONS
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Secure FTP Transfer
Jul 2008
This paper is designed for security professionals in the IBM iSeries and AS/400 Enterprise. Information is provided to security administrators, network administrators, and system security...
Provided by PATRICK TOWNSEND SECURITY SOLUTIONS
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Alliance AS2 Integrator
Jul 2008
The secure and reliable EDI-INT solution for exchanging data between business partners in AS2 format. Alliance AS2 Integrator is a native implementation of the Cleo LexiCom application on the...
Provided by PATRICK TOWNSEND SECURITY SOLUTIONS
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Key Regulations and Standards: How AirPatrol Products Can Protect Against Violations and Breaches
Aug 2009
To enhance productivity and efficiency, employees are increasingly turning to wireless networks to get the job done. The security experts at AirPatrol believe that a defense-indepth approach to...
Provided by AirPatrol
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Utilizing Apani EpiForce as a Mitigating Control for PCI/CISP Compliance
May 2008
A recent survey of 231 large merchants by Visa USA indicates that 83% have still not achieved compliance, even though the date to become PCI compliant has now passed. The major reason so few large...
Provided by Fortrex Technologies
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Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions
Sep 2009
Consistent with the current government focus on enhancing consumer protection, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act of 2009) brings sea changes...
Provided by Ernst & Young
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Integrating Control and Safety With Secure System Segregation
Jun 2008
Honeywell delivers operational integration with critical system segregation. With secure integration at the control data and operator levels, Honeywell provides a common operational interface to...
Provided by Honeywell
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Microsoft NAP and Network Access Control: NAC Picks Up Where NAP Leaves Off
May 2008
While Microsoft NAP is often perceived to be a solution with which Network Access Control (NAC) vendors will have to do battle, that's actually not the case at all. Microsoft NAP offers more...
Provided by Mirage Networks
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What FIPS and Common Criteria Certifications Mean to SIEM: Understanding the Relevance of Security Standards in the Context of a Security Information Management Systems
Apr 2009
By definition, Security Information & Event Management systems (SIEMs) are used for the collection of events and logs pertaining to sensitive or protected information. A SIEM attempts to collect...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Securing EMR (Electronic Medical Records)
Apr 2009
Information Technology advancements in healthcare are expected to accelerate, due to cost concerns, more viable and cost-effective Electronic Medical Record (EMR) technology, and federal spending...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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The Cost of Non-Compliance
Jan 2009
Low Risk, Robust Reporting. Implementing NitroView LogCaster and NitroView DBM is low risk and it makes reporting simple. Because they are not co-hosted on the database platform and monitoring...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Integrated Security Provides Necessary Efficiency to Survive Economic Hardships
Jan 2009
The economy isn't doing so well. Everyone is feeling the effects of shrinking budgets and increased economic pressure. At the same time, the rate of cyber crimes is increasing. Regulations...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Regulatory Compliance Solutions: Unified Information Security for Complete Coverage of Compliance Regulations
Jul 2008
With growing threats to industrial, financial and personal information security, there has been an influx of regulation and legislation designed to improve the way that institutions handle...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Meeting PCI: How to Use Information Security Tools to Meet the 12 Requirements of PCI-DSS
Jan 2009
There are many commercially available information security tools on the market, many of which can help with PCI compliance. At a minimum, PCI-DSS requires a firewall and Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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The Path to a Secure Application: A Source Code Security Review Checklist
Jul 2007
The ongoing epidemic of data breach notifications forced by today's data breach disclosure laws has painfully highlighted the insecurity of many of today's applications. How, then, can...
Provided by Ounce Labs
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Knowledge Is Power: Your Software Is Trying to Tell You Something
Apr 2008
Buried in the millions of lines of source code that power organization are the vulnerabilities that put data at risk, and the security mechanisms that protect it. Armed with the right source code...
Provided by Ounce Labs
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Two Security Vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework's MVC
Jul 2008
While performing source-code security review engagements, members of the Ounce Labs' Advanced Research Team (ART) discovered and exploited the following two vulnerabilities in the commonly used...
Provided by Ounce Labs
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Top Ten Ways Shavlik Simplifies Configuration Management and Compliance Auditing
Feb 2009
Amidst the publicity around data breaches at TJ MAXX((retail) and Heartland Payment Services (credit card processing), "Compliance" has become an urgent security topic. Yet there is no single...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
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Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance
Jan 2009
It is essential to understand that the FDCC is a detailed extension of a subset of the general security requirements previously imposed by Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
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New Standard Lays the Foundation for Coordinated, Multi-Vendor Security
Jun 2009
From Ethernet to HTML, standardization of IT technologies has ultimately led to more choice, greater system interoperability, and lower costs for enterprises. The security market is no exception....
Provided by Juniper Networks
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Practical Advantages of Fireware XTM for Hands-On IT Administrators
Jul 2009
This paper is written for IT professionals currently comparing the merits of various network security appliances. If the notion of firewalls being commodities was ever true, it certainly is not...
Provided by WatchGuard Technologies
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The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
Jul 2009
At the beginning of the century, NIST began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance. This included lessons learned over many years of dealing with key management issues, and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Password Management Survey: IT Managers Respond to the Impact of Password Policies on Security and Productivity
Jan 2009
A growing trend for many companies is to implement stronger password policies designed to increase network security. Employees in companies from across all industries find themselves having too...
Provided by Siber Systems
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Solving the Password Management Paradox: Defining the Problem and Reviewing the Four Best-Known Solutions
Jul 2008
This paper reviews the challenge of password management and security, discusses the paradox of strong password policies, evaluates several possible solutions, and recommends a password management...
Provided by Siber Systems
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IT Security's Critical Role During Layoffs
Jul 2009
The Gateway Recession of 2009 has brought the prospect of slowing sales and profits - and job losses. Although layoffs are never desirable, they are often necessary. Much of the responsibility for...
Provided by Forrester Research
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Visibility Equals Money Saved
May 2009
In education, the incorporation of computers is becoming progressively more prevalent - school districts, colleges and universities are increasingly relying on mobile computers to enhance teaching...
Provided by e.Republic
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Why Dealing Rooms Are Better Implemented Through DRM Solutions
Aug 2008
In any enterprise there is information that has to be kept secret, but must be distributed, and therefore has to be identified with any recipient in the event that it is 'Leaked.' This paper...
Provided by LockLizard
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Information Leakage - The Enemy Is Within
Aug 2008
Increasingly, businesses are becoming painfully aware that whilst there are plenty of outsiders who would like to steal some, if not all of their information (people's views as to what is the good...
Provided by LockLizard
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Joint Secured and Robust Technique for OFDM Systems
Dec 2012
This paper presents a novel technique for joint secured and robust transmission of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based communication systems. The proposed system is implemented...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Image Steganography Scheme Using Randomized Algorithm and Context-Free Grammar
Dec 2012
Currently, cryptography is in wide use as it is being exploited in various domains from data confidentiality to data integrity and message authentication. Basically, cryptography shuffles data so...
Provided by Cornell University
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SDMS-Based Disk Encryption Method
Dec 2012
The authors propose a disk encryption method, called Secure Disk Mixed System (SDMS) in this paper, for data protection of disk storages such as USB ash memory, USB hard disk and CD/DVD. It is...
Provided by Cornell University
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A Heuristic Reputation Based System to Detect Spam Activities in a Social Networking Platform, HRSSSNP
Dec 2012
The introduction of the social networking platform has drastically affected the way individuals interact. Even though most of the effects have been positive, there exist some serious threats...
Provided by TATA Communications
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Self Authentication of Image Through Daubechies Transform Technique (SADT)
Dec 2012
In this paper a 4 x 4 Daubechies transform based authentication technique termed as SADT has been proposed to authenticate gray scale images. The cover image is transformed into the frequency...
Provided by University of Kalmar
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Optimal Noise-Adding Mechanism in Differential Privacy
Dec 2011
The authors derive a class of optimal noise probability distributions for noise-adding mechanisms for single real-valued query function to preserve differential privacy under a...
Provided by University of Idaho
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A Note on Quantum McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem
Dec 2012
The security of McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem (PKC) relies on the difficulty of decoding general linear codes, an NP-complete problem. McEliece PKC has been analyzed for more than thirty years,...
Provided by Cornell University
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Building Confidential and Efficient Query Services in the Cloud with RASP Data Perturbation
Dec 2012
With the wide deployment of public cloud computing infrastructures, using clouds to host data query services has become an appealing solution for the advantages on scalability and cost-saving....
Provided by Wright State Athletics
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A 1991 Mpixels/s Intra Prediction Architecture for Super Hi-Vision H.264/AVC Encoder
Aug 2012
This paper presents an H.264/AVC intra prediction design for Super Hi-Vision (SHV) video. Due to huge throughput requirements, design challenges such as data dependency and complexity become even...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
Secure Communication in the Low-SNR Regime
Oct 2009
Secrecy capacity of a multiple-antenna wiretap channel is studied in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. Expressions for the first and second derivatives of the secrecy capacity with...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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Whitepapers
On the Secure DoF of the Single-Antenna MAC
Jan 2010
A new achievability rate region for the secure discrete memoryless Multiple-Access-Channel (MAC) is presented. Thereafter, a novel secure coding scheme is proposed to achieve a positive Secure...
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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Assisted Common Information with Applications to Secure Two-Party Computation
Feb 2010
Secure multi-party computation is a central problem in modern cryptography. An important sub-class of this are problems of the following form: Alice and Bob desire to produce sample(s) of a pair...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Assessing Cloud Node Security
Mar 2011
Some major cloud providers currently expose their clients' data to the risk of compromise as a result of serious flaws in the implementation of their technologies. This is the key finding of a...
Provided by Context Information Security
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2D Bar-Codes for Authentication: A Security Approach
Aug 2012
In this paper, the authors consider a good authentication system using 2D Bar-Codes (2D-BC) from the point of view of the opponent. An estimator that one can use to product a fake was proposed and...
Provided by EURASIP
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Changing Neighbors K Secure Sum Protocol for Secure Multi Party Computation
Feb 2010
Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an important component of Secure Multi-party Computation (SMC).In this paper, the authors provide a protocol to compute the sum of individual data...
Provided by Sri Sai Solutions
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A Secure Variant of the Hill Cipher
Jul 2009
The Hill cipher is a classical symmetric encryption algorithm that succumbs to the know-plaintext attack. Although its vulnerability to cryptanalysis has rendered it unusable in practice, it still...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Modified Ck-Secure Sum Protocol for Multi-Party Computation
Feb 2010
Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) allows multiple parties to compute some function of their inputs without disclosing the actual inputs to one another. Secure sum computation is an easily...
Provided by Sri Sai Solutions
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Using Information Semantic Systems for Absolutely Secure Processing
Feb 2010
The word "Information" is used in different senses. In common life, in computer science, in the statistical, or in the theory of communication the authors use this word in different ways depending...
Provided by Cornell University
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On Secure Distributed Data Storage Under Repair Dynamics
May 2010
The authors address the problem of securing distributed storage systems against passive eavesdroppers that can observe a limited number of storage nodes. An important aspect of these systems is...
Provided by University of Calgary
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Whitepapers
Securing Interactive Sessions Using Mobile Device Through Visual Channel and Visual Inspection
Jul 2010
Communication channel established from a display to a device's camera is known as visual channel, and it is helpful in securing key exchange protocol. In this paper, the authors explain how visual...
Provided by National University of Singapore
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Whitepapers
On the Secure Degrees-of-Freedom of the Multiple-Access-Channel
Mar 2010
A K-user secure Gaussian Multiple-Access-Channel (MAC) with an external eavesdropper is considered in this paper. An achievable rate region is established for the secure discrete memoryless MAC....
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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Polar Coding for Secure Transmission and Key Agreement
Mar 2010
Wyner's work on wiretap channels and the recent works on information theoretic security are based on random codes. Achieving information theoretical security with practical coding schemes is of...
Provided by The Ohio Society of CPAs
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Whitepapers
Implementing New-Age Authentication Techniques Using OpenID for Security Automation
Feb 2010
Security of any software can be enhanced manifolds if multiple factors for authorization and authentication are used .The main aim of this work was to design and implement an Academy Automation...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
A Secure Hash Function MD-192 With Modified Message Expansion
Feb 2010
Cryptographic hash functions play a central role in cryptography. Hash functions were introduced in cryptology to provide message integrity and authentication. MD5, SHA1 and RIPEMD are among the...
Provided by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
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Vulnerability of MRD-Code-based Universal Secure Network Coding Against Stronger Eavesdroppers
Nov 2010
Silva et al. proposed a universal secure network coding scheme based on MRD codes, which can be applied to any underlying network code. This paper considers a stronger eavesdropping model where...
Provided by Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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Whitepapers
Security Games with Decision and Observation Errors
Mar 2010
The authors explain two-player security games which can be viewed as sequences of nonzero-sum matrix games played by an Attacker and a Defender. The evolution of the game is based on a stochastic...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Whitepapers
A Distributed k-Secure Sum Protocol for Secure Multi-Party Computations
Mar 2010
Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an interesting example of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) which has attracted many researchers to devise secure protocols with lower...
Provided by Sri Sai Solutions
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Whitepapers
How to Prevent Type-Flaw Attacks on Security Protocols Under Algebraic Properties
Mar 2010
Type-flaw attacks upon security protocols wherein agents are led to misinterpret message types have been reported frequently in the literature. Preventing them is crucial for protocol security and...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
A Secured Cryptographic Hashing Algorithm
Mar 2010
Cryptographic hash functions for calculating the message digest of a message has been in practical use as an effective measure to maintain message integrity since a few decades. This message...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Encryption Quality Analysis and Security Evaluation of CAST-128 Algorithm and Its Modified Version Using Digital Images
Apr 2009
This paper demonstrates analysis of well known block cipher CAST-128 and its modified version using avalanche criterion and other tests namely encryption quality, correlation coefficient,...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Generalized Secure Distributed Source Coding with Side Information
Sep 2009
In this paper, new inner and outer bounds on the achievable compression-equivocation rate region for generalized secure data compression with side information are given that do not match in...
Provided by sharick
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Whitepapers
Relay Beamforming Strategies for Physical-Layer Security
Apr 2010
In this paper, collaborative use of relays to form a beamforming system and provide physical-layer security is investigated. In particular, Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay beamforming designs under...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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Whitepapers
Collaborative Relay Beamforming for Secure Broadcasting
Apr 2010
In this paper, collaborative use of relays to form a beamforming system with the aid of perfect Channel State Information (CSI) and to provide communication in physical layer security between a...
Provided by University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science and Technology
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Whitepapers
Provable Secure Identity Based Generalized Signcryption Scheme
Apr 2010
According to actual needs, generalized signcryption scheme can flexibly work as an encryption scheme, a signature scheme or a signcryption scheme. In this paper, firstly, the authors give a...
Provided by Henan Polytechnic University
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Whitepapers
Security Policy Enforcement Through Refinement Process
Apr 2010
In the area of networks, a common method to enforce a security policy expressed in a high-level language is based on an ad-hoc and manual rewriting process. The authors argue that it is possible...
Provided by CNRS
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Whitepapers
GeneSyst: a Tool to Reason about Behavioral Aspects of B Event Specifications. Application to Security Properties
Apr 2010
In this paper, the authors present a method and a tool to build symbolic labelled transition systems from B specifications. The tool, called GeneSyst, can take into account refinement levels and...
Provided by CNRS
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Whitepapers
Improved Information Security Using Robust Steganography System
Apr 2010
Steganography is an emerging area which is used for secured data transmission over any public media. Steganography is a process that involves hiding a message in an appropriate carrier like image...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Non-Systematic Codes for Physical Layer Security
Apr 2010
This paper is a first explain on the topic of achieving physical layer security by exploiting non-systematic channel codes. The chance of implementing transmission security at the physical layer...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Security Estimates for Quadratic Field Based Cryptosystems
Apr 2010
The authors describe implementations for solving the discrete logarithm problem in the class group of an imaginary quadratic field and in the infrastructure of a real quadratic field. The...
Provided by University of Calcutta
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Whitepapers
Security in Distributed Storage Systems by Communicating a Logarithmic Number of Bits
May 2010
The authors investigate the problem of maintaining an encoded distributed storage system when some nodes contain adversarial errors. Using the error-correction capabilities that are built into the...
Provided by California Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Information Leakage - The Enemy Is Within
Aug 2008
Increasingly, businesses are becoming painfully aware that whilst there are plenty of outsiders who would like to steal some, if not all of their information (people's views as to what is the good...
Provided by LockLizard
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White Papers
PDF Encryption and Security: Adobe PDF Encryption and Security History
Aug 2007
Early PDF document security relied on weak 40 bit encryption and soon after it was released methods of breaking it were freely available on the Internet. In May 2001 128 bit encryption became...
Provided by LockLizard
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White Papers
10 Things You Really Wished You Had Known About PDF Security, But They Didn't Tell You!
May 2009
The LockLizard approach is to license the relationship between the document publisher and customer, and automatically establish and verify authorizations on a document by document basis. No access...
Provided by LockLizard
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White Papers
Automating IT Security Audits to Ensure Compliance
Dec 2007
Unfortunately, performing IT security audits are often difficult and time-consuming and require significant technical expertise. The expertise alone is often hard to find and, when it is available...
Provided by NetIQ
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White Papers
Simplify, Automate, and Accelerate FDCC Implementations
Mar 2008
The change from traditional vulnerability assessment to common security standards is a significant shift in focus by the thought leaders in security management in both the commercial and federal...
Provided by NetIQ
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White Papers
Using NetIQ to Address PCI Compliance on the iSeries Platform
Mar 2008
This paper provides an overview of how certain applicable PCI requirements translate to iSeries controls, and how NetIQ's Security Solutions for iSeries provide the tools one need to implement...
Provided by NetIQ
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Case Studies
Local Authority Meets GCSX CoCo Compliance Challenge With RSA enVision
Sep 2009
The City of Salford is a local government district of Greater Manchester, England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough. The challenge was to enable employees to access the...
Provided by RSA Security
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White Papers
Security Configuration Benchmark for Sybase ASE 15.0
Sep 2009
CIS provides benchmarks, scoring tools, software, data, information, suggestions, ideas, and other services and materials from the CIS website or elsewhere ("Products") as a public service to...
Provided by Center for Internet Security
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White Papers
The Need for Vulnerability Management
Nov 2007
This paper describes the need for VM. It introduces the sources of vulnerabilities and their related fallout, then relates why the nature of modern threats to the network requires automated...
Provided by Qualys
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Whitepapers
EU Compliance and Regulations for the IT Security Professional
Mar 2009
The protection of data as it rests, transacts or journeys through computer systems is seen as a major component of good corporate hygiene. As well as protecting organisations from reputational...
Provided by Bloor Research
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White Papers
Democracy in U.S. Security Strategy: From Promotion to Support
Mar 2009
Democracy promotion in some form has been central to U.S. foreign policy since the country's inception, yet recent setbacks require reevaluating: 'What role, if any, should democracy have in U.S....
Provided by Center for Strategic and International Studies
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White Papers
An Opportune Moment for a Shared Euro-Atlantic Security Strategy
May 2009
Finally, for the United States to share effectively its leadership vocation with its allies of choice, a different attitude is also required. Bilateral consultations, and most importantly...
Provided by Center for Strategic and International Studies
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White Papers
HID on the Desktop Security Overview
Apr 2009
HID on the Desktop (HOTD) is a suite of solutions designed to strengthen the overall security of a desktop log-on by using Two-Factor Authentication, combining something the user has (their ID...
Provided by HID Global
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White Papers
Access Control Industry Best Practices
Apr 2008
Recent questions have been raised about the vulnerabilities of physical access control systems. Unfortunately, some critics, with limited familiarity of the security industry, have oversimplified...
Provided by HID Global
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White Papers
Clustering on Check Point IP Appliances
Apr 2009
Modern networks are carrying both the financial transactions and the information that is the lifeblood of today's businesses, which makes network outages (or even degraded performance)...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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White Papers
Building a Foundation for PCI: Primer on PCI 1.1 Compliance With Check Point Solutions
Aug 2009
Companies affected by the PCI standard - merchants, banks, and service providers - are required to conduct a variety of validation activities, including quarterly scans, a self-assessment...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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White Papers
The Power-1 Performance Architecture: Delivering Application-Layer Security at Data Center Performance Levels
Jul 2008
Companies have always faced a tradeoff with network security. Do they lock down the network and face performance issues? Or do they focus on a high level of performance at the expense of...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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White Papers
The Changing Role of the Network Administrator
Oct 2007
The goal of this paper is to describe how the role of the network administrator is changing and to identify a set of attributes network administrators will need to be successful going forward....
Provided by Ipswitch
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White Papers
Web Use and Misuse
Nov 2008
Three out of four employers have had to deal with employees who waste time online, according to a recent survey by Employment Review magazine1. Companies had problems with employees misusing...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Converged Threats on the Security Landscape
Jun 2009
The pervasive presence of malware on the Internet today creates more opportunities for mixing and matching dangerous content than has ever been possible. The essence of a converged threat is the...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Clear Skies Ahead: Cloud Computing and In-the-Cloud Security
Apr 2009
The difference between cloud computing and in-the-cloud security should be clear. It will be a couple of years before cloud computing really takes off as companies will have to get used to the...
Provided by Kaspersky Lab
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White Papers
The Business Case for Data Governance
Nov 2008
The issues in bringing data governance into the enterprise, however, come in the steps one takes to do so because there is a fundamental mismatch between the access controls that business owners...
Provided by Preventia
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White Papers
Controlling Access to Critical Enterprise Resources
Feb 2008
Remote Vendor Access, Developer Access to Production, Fire-Call Access and more are all examples of "Critical" access requirements that bring a unique set of compliance and security requirements....
Provided by e-DMZ Security
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White Papers
Auditing Active Directory Changes Efficiently
Jan 2010
Change auditing is one of the key processes that must be implemented in Active Directory in order to get control of changes done by multiple IT administrators with delegated permissions. One...
Provided by NetWrix
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Whitepapers
Preventing Password Expiration Proactively
Jan 2010
Password expiration is a well-known pain for IT help desk personnel. Requests to reset expired passwords can build up to a sizable portion of the total help desk workload. This whitepaper...
Provided by NetWrix
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White Papers
Helping Defend the Government Web Infrastructure
Aug 2009
The new administration is dedicated to providing technology leadership including rolling out more online services to citizens. New CIO and CTO positions and other initiatives laid down by...
Provided by Cenzic
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White Papers
California Identity Theft Laws & Application Security: AB 1950, SB 1386, and Beyond
May 2009
Application security and automated tools to assess application security vulnerabilities protect computerized information accessible through Web-enabled applications. Accordingly, application...
Provided by Cenzic
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White Papers
Social Networking: The Growing Threat to Businesses and Individuals
Aug 2009
Social Networking is a phenomenon that has officially grown out of control. It means that literally. It has grown to the point where neither the users nor the social networking companies...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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White Papers
Red Flags Rule: The FTC Regulation and Solutions to Prevent Identity Theft
Jun 2009
The Red Flags Rule was developed pursuant to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act of 2003. Under the Rule, financial institutions and creditors with covered accounts must have...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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White Papers
The ABC's of Social Engineering & Five Ways to Protect Your Organization
Jun 2009
Social Engineering has been an effective method of committing fraud for centuries. Recently, however, it has been used more and more to assist criminals in perpetrating crimes that can net large...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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White Papers
Proposed Amendments to Regulation S-P Safeguard & Disposal Rules: Risk Mitigation and Compliance Solutions for Organizations Falling Under SEC Rules
Jun 2009
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) currently has a series of Safeguards and Disposal Rules (Section 30a of Regulation S-P) that requires institutions to adopt written policies and...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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White Papers
The Power of Information Availability: What Every Senior Executive Should Know - Recovering Business Value From Unprofitable Downtime
May 2008
This paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can transform that non-productive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime for...
Provided by Vision Solutions
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White Papers
The Primer: Nuts and Bolts of Federated Identity Management
Jul 2008
For any IT department, it is imperative to understand how organization can securely manage and control users' identities. With so many employees accessing up to thirty different resources over the...
Provided by Ping Identity
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White Papers
Internet Scale Identity Systems: An Overview and Comparison
May 2009
An Internet-scale identity system is an architecture that defines standardized mechanisms enabling the identity attributes of its users to be shared between applications and Web sites. This...
Provided by Ping Identity
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White Papers
Stop Application Fraud at the Source With Device Reputation
May 2009
Device fingerprinting coupled with the device's reputation helps identify the bad guys in the acquisition channel, so one don't have to rely on other fraud detection tools that drive up the cost...
Provided by IOVATION
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White Papers
Expose Fraud Rings and Stop Repeat Offenders With Device Reputation
Jun 2009
The convenience and excitement of gambling online has been the driving force behind the phenomenal growth of the online gambling industry. But as more people turn to online poker, roulette,...
Provided by IOVATION
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White Papers
Shadow Surfing - Preventing Proxy Abuse in Schools
Jun 2009
Proxy abuse is an increasingly pervasive problem in schools - and one that can only be prevented with intelligent filtering solutions such as Guardian. SmoothWall's pioneering Dynamic Content...
Provided by SmoothWall
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White Papers
The Case for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) in Proactive Network Defense
May 2008
It's widely accepted that Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are excellent tools for regulatory compliance, log management and analysis, trouble-shooting and forensic...
Provided by TriGeo Network Security
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White Papers
Architecting the Right Solution for Strong Authentication
Sep 2009
Putting the pieces together for a strong authentication solution is not something one will achieve in a short period of time. However, the need for strong authentication has never been greater and...
Provided by Realtime Publishers
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White Papers
User Provisioning and Access Compliance for Microsoft Environments
Mar 2008
To address these key business priorities, today's IT budgets include significant funding for specific solutions such as password management, user provisioning, automated access compliance and role...
Provided by Courion
