computers assumption
Artificial Neural Networks Architecture for Intrusion Detection Systems and Classification of Attacks
White Paper The underlying assumption of intrusion detection is an attack will noticeably affect system performance or behavior. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aim at protecting networks and computers from malicious network-based or host-based attacks. [03 Jul 2008]
Another Look at Replicated Application Sharing
White Paper This assumption is untrue in the face of environmental differences among computers running the applications. While there have been attempts to build such a system, they have not succeeded due to an implicit assumption of application determinism. [02 May 2008]
The Zipper System for Flexible, Replicated Application Sharing
White Paper This assumption is untrue in the face of environmental differences among computers running the applications. While there have been attempts to build such a system, they have had limited success due to an implicit assumption of application determinism. [01 May 2008]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News The acquisition will be financed through a combination of stock and cash and includes the assumption of $107m in a vested stock options. Citrix makes so-called thin client software that delivers business applications from servers to desktop computers. [16 Aug 2007]
Security - no longer just about hackers
Comment Traditionally, the assumption has been that the organisation needs somehow to be protected from outside threats. One panellist, for example, described the policies surrounding remote laptop use and how they were extending the policies to computers... [31 Jul 2007]
$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security
News The number one broken assumption of desktop security.is this very simple premise that all executing software should execute with the full permission that its user possesses," he said. Krstić added that modern computers "run untrusted code every... [21 May 2007]
Design and Implementation of an Extrusion-Based Break-In Detector for Personal Computers
White Paper To infer user intent, BINDER correlates outbound connections with user-driven input at the process level under the assumption that user intent is implied by user-driven input. This paper tackles the problem of automated detection of break-ins... [14 Apr 2006]
Rapidly Prototyping Single Display Groupware Through the SDGToolkit
White Paper Yet today's personal computers are designed with the assumption that one person interacts with the display at a time. Researchers in Single Display Groupware (SDG) explore how multiple users share a single display such as a computer monitor, a... [07 Dec 2005]
Criminal IT: Unlocking the power of computer crime evidence
Comment The Data Protection Act discusses the processing, storage, display or transmission of personal data, with the assumption that computers and networks are involved. The Computer Misuse Act naturally discusses computers, specifically the question of... [19 Oct 2005]
Network Segmentation
White Paper It is based on the assumption that all the "good guys" are inside the company and all the "bad guys" are outside. In practice, this assumption is never true. While bad guys sometimes manage to penetrate the castle defenses, most attacks are traced... [06 Oct 2005]
Devil's Advocate: To trust or not to trust machines?
Comment Once a person has formed a view about some situation, the evidence tends to be interpreted so as to support the initial assumption. In fact, this assumption was mistaken; errors in construction had drastically shortened the life expectancy of some... [26 Jul 2005]
Integration of Computer Technology in the Social Studies Classroom: An Argument for a Focus on Teaching Methods
White Paper This paper explores the assumption that successful computer integration into classroom teaching is less associated with computer literacy than it is with exposure to various methods of instruction which use computers. [14 Apr 2005]
Why IBM won't regret exiting PCs
Comment Bad assumption, it turned out. With 20/20 hindsight, it now seems a no-brainer: Margins on personal computers, workstations and servers were getting thinner every year, and IBM needed to find a place in a high-priced business where the word... [13 Dec 2004]
Unpatched PCs down to 20min "survival time"
News One problem, experts say, is network administrators' reliance on patching and their assumption that users will quickly patch systems. One of Conti's administrators tested the centre's data recently by placing two unpatched computers on the network. [18 Aug 2004]
Analysis: Think tanks fill up on broadband
Comment The most basic mistake made by many commentators is the assumption that broadband is about the PC and the web browser. Sir George Young demonstrates a good grasp of the need for always-on connections, though he misses the point that we also need... [13 Apr 2004]
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