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On CEP as a Discipline

2008-08-05 08:46:27 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In CEP as a Discipline , David Luckham wrote Actually, it is fair to say that some of CEP can be found in other disciplines. Event processing has been going on in one form or another, for the past 50 years. Simulation, Networking, Active DBs, Middleware CEP has only just begun. The foundations are unexplored. Its an open field of research...
 
Tags: cep, move cep, land cep, multisensor data fusion, data, complex event, event, prior art, art
 
 
 
 
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Spaf on Academic Security Research (... Silliness)

2007-12-20 13:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Spaf also laments academic security research. He says : "As I write this , Im sitting in a review of some university research in cybersecurity. [...] What strikes me about these efforts representative of efforts by hundreds of people over decades, and the expenditure of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars is that the vast majority of these...
 
Tags: security, worthwhile security, efforts representative, efforts, security economics, people, rigorous academic approach, academic research, dirt pile
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
James Whittaker here At the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 07, Trollhattan Sweden) one would think that the security versus reliability debate would be very one-sided. After all, reliability is the attendees mainstay and if there is one group of folks on the planet who would see security as a subset or...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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www.e-victims.org

2008-01-17 16:24:56 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
A new UK website, launched today, has a subtly (and I think importantly) different spin on online security The site is www.e-victims.org , where the emphasis is not so much on offering up-front security advice (for that, the UK-oriented site Id recommend is www.getsafeonline.org ), and not on reporting incidents to the police ( who probably dont...
 
Tags: credit card company, credit card, site continues, site, company, practical down-to-earth advice, down-to-earth advice, e-victims, org
 
 
 
 
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Email is a Practice

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2007-07-27 15:50:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
Being information security professionals, we have obligation to follow good e-mail practice, by this we can operate with due care in our profession and that will make us look good. In my earlier job, colleague of mine [a security expert] had sent me an e-mail describing how he broke the weak encryption of an application. Inadvertantly, in his...
 
Tags: e-mail, e-mail practice, e-mail food, bad e-mail, security professionals, information security professionals, blog post, expert, blog
 
 
 
 
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Why you nearly need a P.I. to help you hire a private investigator

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2008-03-01 20:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
So, you need a private investigator to help you catch your cheating spouse, or to work undercover in your business to find out who has been stealing or to follow the employee who is claiming workmans comp, but youve heard he plays golf every weekend. What are you to do The first thing I would tell you is NOT to go to the yellow pages and...
 
Tags: local, professional associations local, local security company, company, illegal company, choose company, exspensive company, guards company, security company
 
 
 
 
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Israel Implementing IFF System for Commercial Aircraft

2008-03-10 12:24:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Israel is implementing an IFF (identification, friend or foe) system for commercial aircraft, designed to differentiate legitimate planes from terrorist-controlled planes The news article implies that it's a basic challenge-and-response system. Ground control issues some kind of alphanumeric challenge to the plane. The pilot types the challenge...
 
Tags: commercial aircraft, system, hand-held computer device, device, pin, special distress pin, ground control issues, challenge, news article implies
 
 
 
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/20/08 Organization U.S. Government Contractor/Consultant/Branch U.S. Department of State Stanley, Inc The Analysis Corporation Victims United States passport applicants Number Affected Unknown Prominent political figures such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were all affected....
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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N-DEx National Intelligence System

2008-03-31 06:13:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An article from The Washington Post : Federal authorities hope N-DEx will become what one called a "one-stop shop" enabling federal law enforcement, counterterrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically examine the enormous caches of local and state records for the first time The expanding police systems illustrate the prominent roles...
 
Tags: intelligence, police systems, police, authorities, surveillance authorities, local police, law enforcement, federal law enforcement, intelligence analysts
 
 
 
 
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A Vocabulary of Confusion

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2008-04-16 08:48:20 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
The blog post, On Event Processing Agents ,reminds me of a presentation back in March 2006, where TIBCO s ex-CEP evangelist Tim Bass (now busy working for a conservative business advisory company in Asia and off the blogosphere, as we all know) presentedhis keynote , Processing Patterns for Predictive Business , at the first event processing...