flaws in white papers
Usability Study of Windows Vista's Firewall
White Paper By providing a high-fidelity prototype that could be evaluated against Vista's firewall, the weaknesses of current interface can be shown with enough evidence, and suggested improvements could be used to fix the usability... [12 Nov 2009]
Podcast: Staying competitive and Showing ROI
White Paper According to recent research conducted by IBM® ISS X-Force®, more than half of all disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 were Web application flaws. Learn how IBM Web application security solutions can help you reduce... [20 Oct 2009]
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
White Paper Usually, in this type of attack, an attempt is made to cause the attacked systems to crash by exploiting vulnerabilities in operating systems, programs and services or basic design flaws in the network protocols in use... [02 Oct 2009]
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms
White Paper These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers... [01 Oct 2009]
Data Center Projects: Project Management
White Paper In data center design/build projects, flaws in project management and coordination are a common - but unnecessary - cause of delays, expense, and frustration. This paper presents a framework for project management roles... [01 Oct 2009]
Outsmarting Tomorrow's Hackers Today
White Paper Network IDS/IPS and first-generation Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) don't protect against today's sophisticated web application threats, such as cross-site scripting, injection flaws and other vulnerabilities listed on... [01 Oct 2009]
Securing IP Networks
White Paper As Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is opening the door to a wealth of new opportunities for service providers and their customers, it also ushers in a number of potential security flaws that can be exploited. [01 Oct 2009]
Red Hat Open Source Security
White Paper No software is perfecteven the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over their infrastructure in... [18 Sep 2009]
Five Critical Recovery Flaws Your Last Disaster Recovery Test Missed
White Paper Businesses today are spending millions of dollars to develop and maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructures that will ensure business continuity. But despite such huge investments of time and resources, most IT professionals are... [14 Jul 2009]
Hacking Leopard: Tools and Techniques for Attacking the Newest Mac OS X
White Paper It also reveals tools that are only found on Mac OS X and how they can be used to find security flaws, especially those that can be used in conjunction with fuzzing. This paper serves as an introduction to the tools and... [13 Jul 2009]
Identity Management: The Seven Flaws of Identity Management - Usability and Security Challenges
White Paper In this paper, the authors posit seven flaws or design challenges that must be met for the general public to accept and use identity management systems. Identity management systems' scale and complexity, combined with... [01 Jul 2009]
Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing
White Paper Typical techniques involve the exploitation of flaws in the software of web-based forums, photo galleries, shopping cart systems, and blogs. Criminals use web servers to host phishing websites that impersonate financial... [01 Jul 2009]
An Analysis of Network Scanning Traffic as It Relates to Scan-Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper Existing research by van Riel and Irwin has illustrated a number of flaws present in the open source systems Snort and Bro. This paper builds on this by describing current research at Rhodes University in which these... [20 Jun 2009]
Managing the ISO 9000:2000 Paper Trail
White Paper To remain competitive, manufacturers today must consistently produce near perfect products; flaws are not acceptable. To achieve that goal they employ compliance tools such as ISO 9000:2000 that ensures structured... [16 May 2009]
Avoiding the EPIC FAIL: Improving Software Development Success With ActivePerl
White Paper It's a clean slate, free from architectural flaws, bugs, and broken code. It is easy to sympathize with software developers trying to build large, complex enterprise software solutions. At the start, a software... [14 May 2009]
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