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Enabling Web Services to Use Hardware Encryption With WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 6.0.2

whitepaper It implements the Web services security (WS-Security) version 1.0 standard, including digital signature, encryption and security tokens. It supports transport layer security, HTTP basic authentication and message level security.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PARANOIA Security Standard for Wireless Networks

whitepaper There is a distinct lack of authentication and encryption. Current wireless security is flawed. In addition to explaining the PARANOIA approach, this paper examines competition to PARANOIA as well as other modalities that attempt to solve the...

Tags: security standards

[11 May 2008]

Encryption Key Management, Key Rotation and the PCI Data Security Standard

whitepaper The credit card associations Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover aligned their individual policy protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Enterprise Information Protection The Payment...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Meeting the 12 Rules of the PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

DB2 Security and PCI Compliance: A Best Practices Guide

whitepaper This paper will review DB2 solutions that are compliant to the requirements for data at rest encryption in the PCI Data Security Standard and are based on a design that also provides separation of duties, audit, and central key management.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Control Packet Security for CAM Based Firewall

whitepaper The module implements several IPSec standards including the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), and keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) using both MD5 and SHA-1.

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Enabling Compliance With the PCI Data Security Standards

whitepaper By implementing this comprehensive solution, one can add encryption, access control, host protection and auditing to the data protection initiative, and achieve compliance with this critical industry standard.

Tags: security standards

[11 Apr 2008]

Quantum Cryptology

whitepaper On the other hand, code-breakers in possession of a quantum computer can easily break popular encryption schemes such as RSA and Data Encryption Standard (DES), which are essentially intractable by any classical computer.

Tags: e-commerce security, code, encryption, quantum

[10 Apr 2008]

SEG- A Provably Secure Variant of El-Gamal

whitepaper The Zheng-Seberry (ZS) encryption scheme was published in 1993 and was one of the first practical schemes that was considered secure against an adaptively chosen ciphertext adversary. This paper shows that the semantic security of the one-way hash...

Tags: pki, scheme, variant, adversary

[10 Apr 2008]

2007 Microsoft Office System Document Encryption

whitepaper Microsoft 2007 Office system document encryption is greatly improved over encryption methods used for previous versions of Microsoft Office and introduces industry-standard AES encryption support. One of the most effective ways to protect data is...

Tags: security applications

[28 Mar 2008]

Securing Voice Traffic With Cisco IOS SSL VPN

whitepaper Because VoIP transmits digitized voice as a stream of data, the VoIP VPN solution accomplishes voice encryption simply, applying standard data-encryption mechanisms inherently available in the collection of protocols used to implement a VPN.

Tags: vpns

[28 Mar 2008]

Employing IBM Database Encryption Expert to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)

whitepaper In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS or PCI).

Tags: database management

[28 Mar 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment Is encryption really the silver bullet for security? Naturally, encryption is also a desirable preventative measure. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology.

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Comment We spent a day encrypting the data, sent the encryption key by person on a plane followed by the disk in the possession of another person. I have security checkpoints within each major group and a governance department that spends 100 per cent of...

Tags: identity, security, data theft, ecommerce

[25 Feb 2008]

BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption The ban does not affect RIM's BlackBerry enterprise version (4.0 and above), which has been certified by CESG as secure enough to carry...

Tags: data loss, blackberry, mod, government

[04 Feb 2008]

Web 2.0 security risks being ignored

News Web 2.0 presents a barely understood risk to companies embracing social networking and instant messaging technology as business tools and could force a change in corporate IT security and greater use of encryption.

Tags: web 2.0, security, banking, banks

[31 Jan 2008]

ATMs: How to improve operational efficiency while reducing costs

whitepaper From phasing out OS/2 in favor of Windows to complying with regulatory measures such as the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), the physical, technical, and business requirements for automated teller machines (ATMs) are changing.

Tags: best practices, atm, hp openview, banks

[14 Jan 2008]

WEP Cloaking - Maximizing ROI From Legacy Wireless LAN

whitepaper Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the encryption protocol defined in the original IEEE 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Several known vulnerabilities and attack tools have compromised WEP making it unsuitable for secure...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

The Right Ingredients for Secure Email and Regulatory Compliance

whitepaper Offering cost-effective data retention and email encryption tools In addition, a cadre of legal regulations including HIPPA, GLBA, FISM, FRCP and SOX impose a variety of mandates on businesses relating to privacy, security and data retention.

Tags: privacy, hosted, email, retention

[23 Oct 2007]

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