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Adaptive security from the Gartner IT Security Summit

2008-06-09 20:25:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...adaptive mechanisms of a biological system. Very interesting Most of it made sense - however, it seemed hard to see how we could build adaptive/proactive security systems just yet. We are still figuring out security based on signatures and we cant build them fast enough - adaptive might mean too many gray areas in the short term. And it...
 
Tags: security, security summit, security systems, security based, model based security, adaptive, security view, adaptive mechanisms, neil macdonald keynote
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...Adaptive Authentication Manager (Bharosa acquisition), Digital Envoy, Entrust, iovation, RSA Security File-based device authentication (inexpensive, low to medium level of security, low user inconvenience Website puts a cookie on the users browser and uses the cookie to display a user-selected image the next time logs in. This method...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms

2008-07-02 17:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The U.S military comes up with an acronym for everything. Some of them are cute. Some are obtuse. Some are a mouthful. And some are just ... bad. Awesomely bad. Think "PAST-A!" (Pedagogically Adaptive Scenarios for Training - Automated!) "IBOM" (Ionizing Brownout Mitigation System) and "FEAST" (Framework for Enabling Adaptive Scenario Generation...
 
Tags: awesomely bad, bad, adaptive scenario generation, brownout mitigation system, military, adaptive scenarios, acronym, ibom, mouthful
 
 
 
 
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EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

2008-08-21 05:47:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...adaptive process management (n.) an element of resource and business process management, adaptive search and event processing. Sometimes referred to as Level 4 event processing or process refinement application concept (n.) a definition of a set of properties that represent the data fields of an application entity. An application concept can...
 
Tags: event, event-object, business process management, process, event correlation, process refinement, simple, simple event, process events
 
 
 
 
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Cisco warns of Application Velocity System, PIX and ASA flaws

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Linda Leung in Network World on Security
 
Cisco Wednesday issued two new security alerts: one warning of default passwords in its Application Velocity System (AVS), and the other warning of a crafted IP packet flaw in its Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliance (PIX) and the Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). That vulnerability could result in a reload of the devices
 
Tags: cisco, pix, application velocity system, cisco pix, series security appliance, cisco wednesday, default passwords, security alerts, asa
 
 
 
 
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Embedded Malware at Bloggies Awards Site

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2008-03-12 18:36:48 by HASH0x8b6b2fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...adaptive ways to take advantage of. Back in December, 2007, the same event based malware embedded attack appeared at a French government's site covering France/Libya relations right in the middle of Libya's leader visit in the country. My detailed analysis back then revealed details of the usual RBN connection, with IFRAME hosts switchng...
 
Tags: malware, timely malware, event based malware, site, malware screenshot, icepack, descriptive icepack host, info, bloggies
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...adaptive, risk preferences should reflect the typical decision-making environments faced by organisms. However, this approach has not been widely used to examine the risk sensitivity in closely related species with different ecologies. Here, we experimentally examined risk-sensitive behaviour in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan...
 
Tags: risk preferences, risk, relative risk preferences, risk-prone behaviour, approach, people approach risk, people, losses, risk larger losses
 
 
 
 
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Hitachi acquires M-Tech Information Technology

2008-04-24 15:24:10 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...adaptive access management (Web and desktop) portfolio to complement its identity management and provisioning portfolio also remains to be seen
 
Tags: hitachi, access management, access, m-tech, m-tech information technology, adaptive access management, user account, enterprise role definitions, iam
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet of U.S Military Hosts

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2008-05-14 07:42:27 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...adaptive enemy will undermine the resources, time and money youve put into the process by avoiding outside-to-inside attacks, and DDoS your infrastructure from inside-to-inside Here are related comments on how unnecessary the whole idea is at the first place
 
Tags: ddos, ddos bandwidth capacity, network infrastructure, adaptive enemy, infrastructure, enemy, enemys communications, hacktivist crowd, resources