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whitepaper TechNet Webcast: 2008 Defense in Depth Security Series (Part 3 of 8): Gates, Guards, and Guns (Level 200)2008-01-09 Microsoft Tips
  The presenter of this webcast dives into various techniques and methods that should be considered when it comes to providing physical security around the datacenters. The presenter discusses some of the recent trends in this area, such as IP video surveillance, and also discusses resources that can assist in coming up with a good overall physical security plan.

Tags: Data Tools, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Web Application Security: GamaSec Solution2008-01-02 Gamasec
  How does one cost effectively defend web applications from attack? One's organization relies on mission critical business applications that contain sensitive information about customers, business processes and corporate data. Moving away from proprietary client/server applications to web applications gives the one a simpler, cost-effective, highly extensible delivery platform. These applications are more than a valuable tool to power the business operations; they are also a valuable and vulnerable target for attackers. Web applications are increasingly the preferred targets of cyber-criminals looking to profit from identity theft, fraud, corporate espionage, and other illegal activities. The impact of an attack can be significant, and include costly and embarrassing service disruptions, down-time, lost productivity, stolen data, regulatory fines, angry users and irate customers.

Tags: Security Administration, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Software Company Creates Automated "Database Factory" Using SQL Server 20082008-01-01 Microsoft Tips
  CyberSavvy believes in using software automation to make life easier for its customers. Its Software as a Service solution, DataPlace, which it terms a "Database factory," enables technical and business oriented customers to create and modify their own databases, hosted by CyberSavvy. The company needed a rock-solid database with a faultless data transfer mechanism to support communication between its client-side SmartClient and backend databases. CyberSavvy deploys its solutions on the Microsoft Application Platform, using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on the hosted server side, and SQL Server 2008 Express on the client side. CyberSavvy has enjoyed a number of benefits from using SQL Server 2008 including an integrated development environment, reduced storage needs with Backup Compression, easier automation using SQL Server Service Broker, and scalability.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper IBM Research's Secure Trade Lane Solution Concept Helps Facilitate a More Secure Exchange of Container-Based Goods Shipped Worldwide2008-01-01 IBM
  Criminal and terrorist threats pose a significant challenge to the trade and cargo industries, which are urgently searching for new ways to establish a more secure global logistic chain across a complex, and often conflicting, network of manufacturers, distributors, freight forwarders, port authorities, ocean carriers and distribution centers. Closing the gap between stakeholders, embedding security across the logistics chain and providing critical data at every point of interaction with container-based goods would go a long way towards a more secure shipping trade. Experts at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich set out to meet these goals by developing a solution that addresses the logistical and physical challenges inherent in an end-to-end, secure trade chain.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper IBM's SPARCLE Policy Management Tool Is Helping Organizations Create, Implement and Monitor Policies That Protect Personal Identifiable Information2008-01-01 IBM
  Following a recent wave of identity theft, spamware and online fraud, consumers are demanding that businesses safeguard their personal information from exploitation by cybercriminals and government officials have responded with stringent legislation mandating effective privacy policies. To help businesses manage and enforce their privacy policies, IBM Research has developed the SPARCLE (Server Privacy Architecture and Capability Enablement) policy management workbench. The goal is to help privacy professionals in any industry create policies in natural language, translate those policies into system readable commands, implement them with an enforcement engine and run reports to audit the effectiveness of the of the policy implementation. These capabilities will not only help protect the personal information of customers, but also will help reduce risk for organizations.

Tags: Security Administration, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper E-Notebook Middleware for Accountability and Reputation Based Trust in Distributed Data Sharing Communities2008-01-01 Purdue University
  This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of scientific collaborations. Multiple researchers share individually collected data, who in turn create new data sets by performing transformations on existing shared data sets. In data sharing communities building trust for the data obtained from others is crucial. However, the field of data provenance does not consider malicious or untrustworthy users. By adding accountability to the provenance of each data set, this middleware ensures data integrity insofar as any errors can be identified and corrected.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Distributing the Cost of Securing a Transportation Infrastructure2008-01-01
  This paper addresses the problem of fairly distributing the cost of system-wide improvements to the security of a transportation infrastructure over the beneficiaries. The paper presents a framework that models transportation links and the emergence (magnitude and frequency) and propagation of threats. The cost-distribution is based on a weighted sum that characterizes the expected reduction in the vulnerability of a site as a result of the security improvements.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics2008-01-01 SPSS
  It's no secret that the world has seen an explosion of information in the past 15 years, an explosion that experts predict will continue as the millions of people who use online resources continue to expand their usage, and the millions of people who do not yet have access to such resources gain it. Similarly, information stored as text in both business and government organizations has grown exponentially.

Tags: Homeland Security, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper Joseph Brant Hospital Supports Performance Reporting and Funding Decisions With SAS2007-12-01 SAS Institute
  Joseph Brant is a community hospital that provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and outreach services. It has an employee base of over 300 affiliated physicians, 1,400 full-time and part-time professional caregivers and operations staff, and more than 500 active auxiliary volunteers. The challenge was to ensure accurate reporting of patient care in order to secure government funding for added services and continued operations. Joseph Brant deployed SAS that integrated data from multiple sources and delivers performance management metric reports needed to support hospital funding decisions.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper GridTorrent Framework: A High-Performance Data Transfer and Data Sharing Framework for Scientific Computing2007-11-05 Indiana University
  Large amount of data that is often stored in many thousands of files is created as part of today's geographically distributed scientific computation and collaboration environments. Managing and transferring large volumes of data sets present a significant challenge and are often a bottleneck in the scientific computing community. This paper introduces an architecture to manage data distributions in a collaborative fashion through a GridTorrent Framework (GTF) whose data transfer mechanism inspired by Bittorrent. This paper presents performance experiment data that compares the framework to Parallel TCP (PTCP) and Bittorrent. Experimental results conducted suggest that using GridTorrent for large data set has significant advantages over parallel TCP in LAN and WAN type of computer networks.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Homeland Security