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RSS authorOutsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Author Nicholas Carr believes the shift to cloud computing will cause casualties in the outsourcing market As businesses begin to host their IT systems in the cloud - instead of hiring outsourcers to maintain and... [19 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Dr Gus Hosein, senior fellow at the London School of Economics and co-author of a book on the ID card scheme entitled Global Challenges for Identity Policies, said the scheme has been plagued by over-optimistic deadlines. [16 Nov 2009]
Security for the Cloud Infrastructure: Trusted Virtual Data Center Implementation
White Paper In this paper, the author extends previous work on the TVDc by implementing controlled access to networked storage based on security labels and by implementing management prototypes that demonstrate the enforcement of... [12 Nov 2009]
Server Workload Analysis for Power Minimization Using Consolidation
White Paper In this work, the author presents the first detailed analysis of an enterprise server workload from the perspective of finding characteristics for consolidation. Server consolidation has emerged as a promising technique... [12 Nov 2009]
Predictive Modelling for Meaningful Security SLAs
White Paper In a previous paper the author discusses the development of the concept of a meaningful security SLA; that is an SLA focussed on the security properties of an information system arising from the interrelation of the... [12 Nov 2009]
Testing the Java Card Applet Firewall
White Paper The author only found one specification violation on one card that could be considered unsafe, in that it might introduce a security risk for specific applications. This paper discusses the methodology and results of... [12 Nov 2009]
Vulnerability Analysis of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) DoS Attack Over Wireless Networks
White Paper First the author setups a testbed wireless network in order to demonstrate how EAP flooding attacks take very little effort to bring a protected wireless network to a complete halt. IEEE 802.11 supports 802.1x to provide... [12 Nov 2009]
How to Become a C# Programmer: A Systematic Approach to Learning C# That Anyone Can Follow
White Paper The idea for this paper came about one day when author received two emails from two people in completely different hemispheres of the world, both asking the same thing: "How should one get started trying to become a... [11 Nov 2009]
The Case for Content Security
White Paper Secure Content conveys the message intended by the author while maintaining its original context without revealing sensitive meta data or content to the reader. Also, It's now easy to pull digital content out of context... [11 Nov 2009]
Viewpoint of ISO GMITS and Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Information Security
White Paper However, in her previous study, the author maintained that "Probabilistic risk assessment" (here after abbreviated as PRA), which has been traditionally employed in assessing the risk of physical systems such as a... [11 Nov 2009]
Implementing a Planning Model for Information Security Management
White Paper A meta mode for the information security management viewpoint developed elsewhere by the first author acts as the context for developing the planning model for information security management. This paper is part of a... [11 Nov 2009]
Identifying Common Reliability/Stability Problems Caused by File Fragmentation
White Paper As the author of Diskeeper®, the Number One Automatic DefragmenterÂ, Diskeeper Corporation has spent countless hours researching the causes and consequences of disk fragmentation. Sure, disk fragmentation affects system... [06 Nov 2009]
Overview of Windows Search Technologies
White Paper This white paper provides observations from the author on four search technologies: Indexing Service; MSN Desktop Search; Windows Desktop Search; and Windows Search. There have been many variations of search technology... [03 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment This group saw Google as benefitting financially from what they believed to be commercial exploitation - and something which by its nature went beyond genuine fair use, and by doing so, depriving its author and publisher... [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News However, Joe Madden, author of ABI Research's report into augmented reality, warns that other technological advances are needed before augmented reality can fully enter the mainstream. Today's increasingly feature-packed... [26 Oct 2009]
