engineering
The ABC's of Social Engineering & Five Ways to Protect Your Organization
White Paper Social Engineering has been an effective method of committing fraud for centuries. Without one social engineering method or another, most current attacks would not be successful. Social... [13 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most destructive point in... [12 Nov 2009]
Virtualizing the Infrastructure With Sun x86 Blades
White Paper Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. In the age of blade servers, this is translating into new designs for network enablement that improve the rate... [12 Nov 2009]
Malware in Email
White Paper Finally, spam which uses social engineering techniques to get users to perform specific actions is also a threat. Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious programs attached to... [12 Nov 2009]
Navisite Case Study: Webchutney
White Paper Sporadic outages were frustrating, but even more troubling were the lack of professionalism and follow through on the part of the engineering and support staff. Webchutney is India's top full service digital media and... [12 Nov 2009]
A Novel Validation Method for Firewall Security Policy
White Paper However, one has found that the theory developed in the software engineering domain to validate software projects can be adapted in the case because several similarities exist between the expressions of the needs in the... [12 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up The report said improvements to the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths need to be made in order to create the next generation of software developers. Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT... [06 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The analysts said improvements to the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths need to be made in order to create the next generation of software developers, while better tax incentives for investment,... [03 Nov 2009]
Introduction to Requirements: Critical Details That Make or Break a Project
White Paper This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering, and the process for gathering requirements. [03 Nov 2009]
Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware
White Paper Intel has a well established rhythm of technology innovation - and a lot of really smart architects who know a thing or two about cpu design - but we get innovative ideas from the outside, too. Over the years of the VMware alliance,... [02 Nov 2009]
Hybrid Intelligent Intrusion Detection System
White Paper Intrusion Detection Systems are increasingly a key part of systems defense. Various approaches to Intrusion Detection are currently being used, but they are relatively ineffective. Artificial Intelligence plays a driving role in security... [30 Oct 2009]
Smarter Products - The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet
White Paper Integration of software engineering with electronic and mechanical engineering is critical, impacting the ability to deliver innovative, high quality products in shorter time frames. Businesses are... [28 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager and co-creator of Wave, said unlike typical Google services, Wave has stoked early interest among both consumers and enterprises. It may have only been launched a few... [28 Oct 2009]
Crossing the Valley of Death
White Paper The mission of research funders, such as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is to fund innovative work that proves new principles in engineering and science. Death Valley in... [26 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The analysts said improvements to teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths needs to be improved in order to create the next generation of software developers, while better tax incentives for investment,... [23 Oct 2009]