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whitepaper San Francisco PUC Gets Better Data for Capital Planning With IBM Maximo Asset Management Solution2009-05-01 IBM
  Surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay, the city of San Francisco lives in close proximity to water. Thanks to the efforts of the 1,800 employees and the facilities of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), these waters are spared from the pollution that the city drains into its sewers and runoff basins. It needed to provide better documentation for budgetary planning and better ratio of preventive to corrective maintenance, which is how the organization is measured against the industry. It Use information on maintenance history and status of equipment collected with IBM Maximo Asset Management to provide visibility into maintenance operations and physical infrastructure for making better operating and planning decisions.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Longitudinal Data Systems in Education: Leveraging the SAS Business Analytics Framework to Accelerate Implementations and Minimize Risk2009-05-01 SAS Institute
  This paper takes a brief look at the drivers of LDS initiatives and the challenges in implementing a large-scale data warehouse that can support the analytics and reporting needed to achieve the goals of LDS initiatives. It then explores SAS' best-practice-based framework for implementing large-scale data integration and enterprise data warehouse initiatives. This framework has been well-honed over years of successful implementations of systems for multinational companies and state and federal governments. The SAS Business Analytics Framework provides a complete information infrastructure for data integration, validation, business intelligence (reporting), predictive analytics and information deployment for state LDS initiatives.

Tags: Data Tools, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Cybersecurity Review: Background, Threatscape, Best-Practices and Resources2009-05-01 Eset
  The target of cybercrime centers on information - the data that is electronically stored for retrieval and subsequent use. To get an idea of the scale of the threat of cybercrime, it takes a look at the overall use of the Internet, theft or exposure of personal data through data breaches and the amount of money lost to a cybercrime called "Phishing" - one of the most common online attacks where a person is socially engineered to provide personally identifiable information by someone posing to be a trusted source.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance2009-04-28 Tripwire
  The number of security breaches of federal information systems and cases of improper access to these systems continues to grow at an alarming rate. In fact, federal civilian agencies reported three times more cyber security incidents in 2008 than in 2006, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And that's just the number of reported incidents; an official at the DHS believes the number may be higher. A quick Internet search reveals the continued pervasiveness of security breaches of federal information systems.

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whitepaper eLENS: The Emergent Law Enforcement Network Security Initiative - Bridging the Gaps in eCrime Data Sharing2009-04-01 Anti-Phishing Working Group
  As the Internet provides the communication artery for government, commerce, and society, threats and crimes leveraging Internet infrastructure cannot be ignored; the effectiveness of legal proceedings must be increased; it is critical that tactical and strategic decision makers operate from reliable information; and, cooperation between networks, researchers and law enforcement is necessary. The eLENS framework provides a mechanism for proactively achieving the common goals of reduced crime and increased security.

Tags: Security Administration, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Special RSA Online Fraud Report: What to Expect in 2009 and Beyond2009-04-01 RSA Security
  Online fraud is a non-stop threat to organizations around the globe, and cyber-criminals have no intention of slowing down the pace. In fact, they continue to improve their technology, launch increasingly sophisticated attacks, and use advanced social engineering techniques to dupe online users into falling for scams. Also, global conditions, such as the receding economy and vulnerabilities in the financial markets, are likely to have an impact on the evolution of cyber-crime.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Measuring Global Denial of Service Attacks2009-03-31 CCD COE
  Cyberattacks as a tool for information warfare are not new and have been popular for well over a decade. Their growing prevalence, however, is a disturbing trend that requires study. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most widely crippling elements of many cyberwarfare campaigns. Designed to overwhelm a victim's infrastructure with junk traffic, their impact has been a significant element in some cyber warfare campaigns. As seen in Georgia, Estonia, and against dissident groups, these attacks can affect much more than just the specific targets. Furthermore, with the growing sophistication of attackers, people see that they can strike key infrastructure elements.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Practical Open Source Data Integration Case Studies & Implementation Examples2009-03-18 Talend
  ETAI's advanced expertise and media mix apply to three industries: automotive, manufacturing and retail. It's a vast domain, and there is no standard for data. As a result, each time a new version of a database product is released (over a hundred times a year), all these repositories need to be processed: data consolidation, reconciliation and cleansing. After each vendor had built their prototype, ETAI compared the results and weighted each criteria based on the risk it presented for the success of the projects. Beyond the performance and feature set of each tool, the robustness of the vendor, its geographical location and its ability to assist the ETAI teams in the long run were critical factors. Talend's solution, which best met ETAI's criteria, was selected.

Tags: Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Compliance with Data Handling Procedures in UK Government2009-03-09 Lumension Security
  The UK Data Handling Procedures in Government Report set out clear and mandatory procedures to be followed by all government employees that have access to and responsibility for citizen data. The Report was drafted at the request of Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in response to HMRC's loss of 2 compact discs containing 25 million child benefit records in November 2007. As a result of this data loss and to thwart future episodes related to this type of preventable loss, all departments placed immediate restrictions on their use of removable media and subsequently all departments have initiated programmes to encrypt laptops and USB memory sticks. The Report sets out significant changes to government departmental policy with regard to secure handling of citizens' data and individual departments must show compliance with the new Data Handling procedures.

Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration, Security Administration, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Mathematical and Statistical Opportunities in Cyber Security2009-03-01 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  The role of mathematics in a complex system such as the Internet has yet to be deeply explored. This paper summarizes some of the important and pressing problems in cyber security from the viewpoint of open science environments. The author starts by posing the question "What fundamental problems exist within cyber security research that can be helped by advanced mathematics and statistics?" The first and most important assumption is that access to real-world data is necessary to understand large and complex systems like the Internet. The second assumption is that many proposed cyber security solutions could critically damage both the openness and the productivity of scientific research.

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