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How IT is ganging up on organised cybercrime
Lone criminals no longer dominate digital crime. According to research from Detica, 80 percent of internet crime is perpetrated by co-ordinated groups. Cybercriminals are joining forces to wreak havoc on businesses and governments, and the public and private sectors are both facing a full spectrum of threats, from financial crime to hacktivism. But IT managers are joining forces to fight this gang warfare. This ZDNet UK guide, produced in association with HP, looks at some of the recent threats to online security, and shows how businesses and governments from the UK and Europe are forming strong defences, sharing information and keeping their data protected from online threats.
3 days ago by ZDNet UKMeeting the Challenges of Endpoint Security
Growing business face real difficulties in protecting users, especially remote workers, while keeping management costs down.
Mobile working and the benefits that it brings are on the rise. But without addressing the security issues of remote working, the benefits could be outweighed by the risks.
Businesses need to protect users from viruses, spyware and unauthorized intrusion - most use antivirus software. But is it enough? And can it meet the evolving security risks associated with a remote workforce?
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Eight questions about your intrusion security solution
There is some confusion in the marketplace about intrusion security systems. The truth is that the capabilities and underlying design of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems couldn't be more different. While the acronyms and product claims sound similar, only one approach to network security can block a wide variety of security attacks throughout your network without slowing down your network applications or devouring human IT resources. This HP white paper looks at why intrusion prevention not detection is essential, and suggests questions to ask your intrusion security system vendor when taking a closer look at intrusion security solutions.
2 weeks ago by HPDelivering software security in the cloud
HP Fortify on Demand is a security-as-a-service testing solution that allows any organisation to test the security of software quickly, accurately, affordably, and without any software to install or manage. This automated on-demand service helps organisations with two key challenges: - Ensuring the security of applications licensed from third parties - Increasing the speed and efficiency of building security into a development lifecycle This document describes in detail how HP Fortify on Demand works and what it can accomplish for companies seeking to test the security of their software.
2 weeks ago by HPDefining next-generation network intrusion prevention
There's no question of the increase and severity in advanced threats attacking networks, application and data. The new, sophisticated and organised criminals are capable of launching advanced, targeted attacks that can quietly invade and infiltrate your network. To stop these and other types of advanced, targeted threats, organisations need not just protection against exploits, but also contextual awareness and the ability to inspect and block threats. This Gartner white paper gives an overview of the security features of HP TippingPoint's Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS).
2 weeks ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)How to defend mobile applications
The standard for being on the cutting edge of business is a mobile storefront on smartphones and tablets. Without this mobile presence, you'll lose business to competitors who have them. With this new challenge come high risks as well as great rewards. Your customers can now perform sensitive transactions anywhere, and mobile apps, devices and data can be more easily attacked. This HP white paper highlights the various considerations for defending mobile applicationsfrom the mobile application architecture itself to the myriad testing technologies needed to properly assess mobile applications risk.
2 weeks ago by HPPalmprint Recognition in Eigen-Space
This paper proposes a novel technique for palmprint recognition in context to biometric identification of a person. Palmprints are images of the inner portion of a person's palm and consist of a complex pattern of randomly oriented curves and lines. This random pattern can provide a unique identifier of a person if a mathematical model can be built to represent and compare it. In this paper the palmprint images are mapped to Eigen-space and a robust code signature is generated from different camera snapshots of the same palm to incorporate tonal and lighting variations.
3 weeks ago by Engg Journals PublicationsSecurity Issues Occur in Cloud Computing and There Solutions
Cloud computing is a recent advancement wherein IT infrastructure and applications are provided as "Services" to end-users under a usage-based payment model. Many organizations, such as Google, Amazon, IBM and many others, accelerate their paces in developing Cloud computing systems and providing services to user with best affords but there phases many difficulties regarding security problem and users also afraid toward security of own data, i.e., whether cloud providers able to maintain data integrity, confidentiality as well as authentication.
3 weeks ago by Engg Journals PublicationsA New Approach To Fingerprint Recognition
Fingerprint recognition continues to be the most widely used biometric system for security purposes. Still it is a complex pattern recognition problem. In this paper, a new approach for fingerprint recognition is developed. There are three steps: image preprocessing, minutiae extraction and minutiae matching. In the first stage the fingerprint image is preprocessed to produce a thinned image with noisy data deleted. Then for minutiae extraction, some heuristic rules have been developed based on the concept of neighboring pixels. This stage results in removal of spurious minutiae points and true minutiae points are detected. Finally, an algorithm for minutiae matching has been designed to improve the performance and have accurate results.
3 weeks ago by Engg Journals PublicationsiPrivacy: A Distributed Approach to Privacy on the Cloud
The increasing adoption of Cloud storage poses a number of privacy issues. Users wish to preserve full control over their sensitive data and cannot accept that it is accessible by the remote storage provider. Previous research was made on techniques to protect data stored on untrusted servers; however, the authors argue that the cloud architecture presents a number of open issues. To handle them, they present an approach where confidential data is stored in a highly distributed database, partly located on the cloud and partly on the clients.
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