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Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics

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...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

UK companies: Leaking like a sieve?

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.

Tags: data breach, security, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

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.

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

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...

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

Stopping Spam and Other E-Mail Threats

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.

Tags: ssl - tls, demand, spam, schemes

[25 Nov 2007]

Mac porn Trojan is multiplying, warns F-Secure

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...

Tags: mac, apple, malware, trojan

[09 Nov 2007]

Practical Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks

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.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, connectivity, knowledge, nodes

[23 Aug 2007]

The Effect of Network Topology on the Spread of Epidemics

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...

Tags: data visualization, spreads, modeled, epidemics

[24 May 2007]

Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks

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...

Tags: network security, attacks, records, traffic

[23 May 2007]

On Collaborative Content Distribution Using Multi-Message Gossip

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.

Tags: scalability, collaborative, nodes, message

[08 May 2007]

FREE Whitepaper on protecting your software against piracy

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.

Tags: infrastructure management, practices, piracy, software piracy

[21 Mar 2007]

FREE Whitepaper on protecting your software against piracy

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.

Tags: infrastructure management, practices, piracy, software piracy

[21 Mar 2007]

Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace

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...

Tags: cyber crime

[07 Mar 2007]

HiScamp: Self-Organizing Hierarchical Membership Protocol

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...

Tags: load, views, clusters, messages

[06 Mar 2007]

Dirty Data?: dfPower Studio to the Rescue!

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...

Tags: migrating, entry, record, studio

[30 Jan 2007]

Virtuozzo Alleviates Windows Server Epidemic

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.

Tags: disaster recovery, virtualization, virtual, virtual server

[18 Jan 2007]

Epidemic Spreading in Technological Networks

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...

Tags: anti-virus, strategies, response, threat

[11 Jan 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06

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...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[10 Nov 2006]

Sainsburys Experience: Coping With the Foot & Mouth Epidemic 2001

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.

Tags: infrastructure management, continuity, disease, mouth

[23 Aug 2006]

Getting Started: Disaster Recovery Planning - Without Destroying Your Budget

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.

Tags: physical infrastructure protection, recovery, disasters, fire

[09 Aug 2006]

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