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whitepaper Epidemic. It is a word that can strike as much fear in a population as yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a...
[15 May 2008]
News Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at least once per month, according to the survey of 250 senior IT staff at businesses larger than 1,000 staff.
[12 May 2008]
News Europe is well on the way to introducing the eCall automatic emergency call system and several Latin American countries are considering mandatory tracking devices on all new cars to combat epidemic vehicle crime.
[06 May 2008]
Comment Then, a disaster affecting one area may leave others unscathed - and in the case of an epidemic such as bird flu, the company could conceivably carry on operating. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny...
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Register for and view this 45-minute TechWiseTV video-on-demand from Cisco, and learn how you can finally control this costly epidemic. Spam, spyware, phishing, and other e-mail scams are wasting your valuable IT resources.
[25 Nov 2007]
News However, he said, the Trojan does not mean Mac platforms are facing a malware epidemic. Security company F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of a Mac Trojan unearthed last week but claims about its powers have been wildly overstated, according to...
[09 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Prior approaches have focused either on epidemic message replication or on knowledge of the connectivity schedule. The epidemic approach of replicating messages to all nodes is expensive and does not appear to scale well with increasing load.
[23 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper addresses the question of what makes an epidemic either weak or potent. Many network phenomena are well modeled as spreads of epidemics through a network. Prominent examples include the spread of worms and email viruses, and, more...
[24 May 2007]
whitepaper This paper presents the design of a Network Forensic Alliance (NFA), to allow multiple Administrative Domains (ADs) to jointly locate the origin of epidemic spreading attacks. ADs in the NFA collaborate in a distributed protocol for post-mortem...
[23 May 2007]
whitepaper This paper studies epidemic schemes in the context of collaborative data delivery. In this context, multiple chunks of data reside at different nodes, and the challenge is to simultaneously deliver all chunks to all nodes.
[08 May 2007]
whitepaper Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. With the ever-growing software piracy epidemic, this paper will also address best practices for implementing security to realise the full potential of your software.
[21 Mar 2007]
whitepaper Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. With the ever-growing software piracy epidemic, this paper will also address best practices for implementing security to realise the full potential of your software.
[21 Mar 2007]
Comment It's been five years since the first e-Crime Congress and this month leading figures from government, business, finance and law-enforcement will assemble in London once again, to explore, discuss - and hopefully - suggest some solutions to deal...
[07 Mar 2007]
whitepaper Gossip-based or epidemic algorithms rely on a peer-to-peer model for dissemination of multicast messages, and are simple, scalable and reliable. However, traditional gossip-based protocols suffer from two major drawbacks: they rely on each peer...
[06 Mar 2007]
whitepaper The HIV/AIDS Reporting System (HARS) captures data to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including names and locations of facilities of diagnosis and treatment. The most challenging aspect of migrating legacy data into a new system is cleaning up years...
[30 Jan 2007]
whitepaper The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) provides a wide variety of services to its members and prospective and current medical students. AAMC decided to explore virtualization technologies as a way to consolidate servers.
[18 Jan 2007]
whitepaper Recent computer worms pose a major threat to large computer networks, and it is a general belief that understanding their means of propagation will help to devise efficient control strategies. This dissertation proposes a new epidemiological model...
[11 Jan 2007]
Round-Up The UK is suffering a fraud epidemic it would seem. Now that's got your Friday afternoon off to a cheery start hasn't it? You see there has been a 55 per cent increase in online fraud and a 37 per cent hike in card fraud, according to stats...
[10 Nov 2006]
whitepaper This case study describes the importance of their business continuity arrangements in coping with the Foot and Mouth disease epidemic in February 2001. Sainsburys is one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK.
[23 Aug 2006]
whitepaper Events ranging from purely local disasters such as local flooding caused by a fire down the block, to a city-wide flu epidemic, or a region-wide blizzard, all have the potential to put companies out of business.
[09 Aug 2006]
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