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The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

2008-03-23 10:36:58 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault." Statistically, you understand, it is incredibly rare for any bugs or errors in your software not to be your fault. Programmers have a tendency to become very defensive about their work. Recently, when being asked to discuss how his code was working, a programmer in one team I'm familiar with...
 
Tags: code, debug code, fault, guilty code, software security presentations, software, project code, days, secure software
 
 
 
 
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The Motivation Behind Adaptive Analytics and CEP

2008-10-11 13:15:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...rule-based approach for countermeasures against massive email bombs attacks on the Langley Air Force Base email infrastructure. We called this rule-based system, BombShelter. and it was written in PERL . I developed both the original software architecture and the original working prototype for BombShelter (in two days) and then we turned the...
 
Tags: systems, intrusion detection systems, rule-bases systems, transaction- based systems, cep, real-time detection, real-time, complex event, countermeasures
 
 
 
 
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An Overture to the 2007 CEP Blog Awards

2008-01-09 11:09:46 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Rule-Based Event Processing Preface:I was also inclined to call this category process-basedevent processing or control-based event processingand might actually do so in the future. As always, your comments and feedback are important and appreciated Rule-based (or process-based) event processing is a major subcategory of event...
 
Tags: term intelligent event, term, intelligent event, event, event processingand, event stream, event streams, category ai-capable event, event processingwill
 
 
 
 
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Spam Filtering: Understanding SEP and CEP

2008-04-14 04:56:52 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...rule-based systems. In fact, here is a link to one of the first papers that documented rule-based approaches in spam filtering, E-Mail Bombs and Countermeasures: Cyber Attacks on Availability and Brand Integrity published in IEEE Network Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 2, p.10-17 (1998). At the time, rule-based approaches were common (the...
 
Tags: spam, complex spam, google detects spam, spam filter, cep, detect, detect complex situations, google, approaches
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...rules. Multiple types of states and transitions maximize the versatility and power of the application state modeler derived event (n.) an event that is created as a result of processing one or more other events complex event (n.) an event that is a situation-entity abstraction of two or more simple, derived or other complex events complex...
 
Tags: event, event-object, business process management, process, event correlation, process refinement, simple, simple event, process events
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Token Security

2008-08-26 16:35:23 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Rule 1. there are no silver bullets in security Rule 2. dont forget rule 1 but there is a rule 3 rule 3. just because a security mechanism doesnt solve all of our problems doesnt mean its worthless I see this with security consultants all the time, they playa hate on static analysis or some scanning tool where they can find hundreds of...
 
Tags: security, global federation, federation, single federation platform, security mechanism, resource security, security consultants, consumer web applications, web
 
 
 
 
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The Big Announcement

2008-03-13 00:03:25 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...rule to block a vulnerability. The rule is automatically generated based on the vulnerability. We then clicked the retest button and the vulnerability was no longer exploitable . Note my careful choice of words, exploitable VS. not there anymore. The vulnerability certainly still exist in the code but now that the attack is blocked the...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities asap, vulnerabilities, app, web app, web application vulnerabilities, vulnerability, sentinel, business, default deny policy
 
 
 
 
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IPS - is it soup yet? Mike Chapple says yes and no

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2008-05-13 20:25:13 by HASH0x84725a8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...rulebases more efficiently, I'm not sure that the technology itself has matured; in fact, it hasn't really changed much at all Just as I said back then. people today are still using IPS as IDS. In spite of what Richard Stiennon said back in 2003, it is still the fact. Those that have ventured beyond pure IDS do so on a limited basis. Mike...
 
Tags: ips, line devices, devices, ips appliances, ips devices, mike, rules set, rules, mike chapple
 
 
 
 
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Airlines Profiting from TSA Rules

2008-05-20 06:51:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rule is the government's gift to cash-starved air carriers That's the situation Gordon was confronted with, even when it was obvious that "Jan" and "Janet" were one and the same. There were suggestions that a new ticket might need to be purchased. "We didn't let it get to that," he recalls. Instead, he asked to speak with a supervisor who...
 
Tags: ticket, award ticket, security, transportation security administration, ticket slide, security personnel, tsa rule, airlines, frequent flier account
 
 
 
 
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More on Why Routing is Not Complex Event Processing

2008-09-04 09:38:58 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog