You think the software you use is absolutely safe for your privacy? The main problem is that most common PC users do not even suspect that they use unsafe software! Think about it: your PC's Operating System and the software you use collect and store some data about you without ...

Our computers do what they do entirely because of the software code or "programs" we run on them. Some people create programs that do what most of us would not desire. Since programs completely control the computer, it is very important that we not run programs written by people we ...

study by Reasoning, the leading provider of automated software inspection (ASI) services, concluded that the code quality of MySQL ranks higher than commercial equivalents. Specifically, Reasoning found that: MySQL code quality was 6x better than that of comparable proprietary code MySQL benefits from the large communities of programmers who "battle test" ...

Businesses are experiencing an alarming and growing number of security attacks that can result in fi nancial losses. These security threats can pose a variety of business risks, including: • Loss of revenue • Loss of customers • Loss of intellectual property (including customer information) • Loss of tangible property • Loss of corporate communications • Loss of ...

Perhaps the most important differentiation between all the SSL certificates available on the market today, is the strength of the brand behind the SSL technology. SSL technology besides ensuring secure transmission of data, is an essential element in providing online customers with the confidence to buy or use a product ...

The following 10 considerations must be taken into account before deciding which CA and which type of SSL certificate to purchase? Each point will be discussed in more detail later. 1. What type of web site application. Low volume, professional or development? 2. How credible and stable is the CA issuing the ...

Assume that institutions simply maintained databases of (pseudonymous or identified) user ids and passwords. Note carefully that the idea here is that a member of the institutional user community has a single userid and password for access to all licensed resources, and not a separate userid and password for ...

Currently, IP source address filtering is the major mechanism used to implement authentication and access management for cross-institutional resource access. The way this works is that the licensee institution provides the resource operator with a list of IP addresses that are authorized access; this can include some wildcarding to ...

Having summarized the many and sometimes conflicting requirements that an access management system must address, we now consider a number of actual schemes currently in use or under consideration and analyze how well they meet these requirements. It's important to recognize that in solving real-world problems more ...

Authentication strength is a somewhat subjective question. For many of the approaches that we will discuss, strength comes from the details of cryptographic algorithms and key lengths used; but part lies also in overall system design and implementation and in the realities of user behavior, and this can ...

The basic cross-organizational access management problem is exemplified by most licensing agreements for networked information resources today; it also arises in situations where institutions agree to share limited-access resources with other institutions as part of consortia or other resource sharing collaborations. In such an agreement, an institution -- ...

There are actually less than 10 CAs issuing commercially available SSL certificates. The Appendix contains the full list of CAs. Until recently the SSL market has been monopolized by Verisign and Thawte. In 1999 Verisign acquired Thawte, and it became a Verisign subsidiary. In recent years, new global players providing ...