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For many organizations, web sites serve as mission critical systems that must operate smoothly to process millions of dollars in daily online transactions. However, the actual …

Security is becoming one of the most urgent challenges in database research and industry, and there has also been increasing interest in the problem of building accurate data …

The steady growth of Wi-Fi in the enterprise demands that corporate IT teams learn and adopt new security methodologies tailored to the unique requirements and weaknesses of …

In this 8:13 minutes long audio learning session, Alex van Someren, Chief Executive Officer at nCipher, talks about the process of encryption, the difference between symmetric …

It is probably the hottest sector in the security field today. Yet the biometrics industry, which produces human-based identification systems, is weighed down with claims and …

What do you see as the biggest online security threats today? What are your clients most worried about? The key threats to deal with today are the so-called ‘blended …

In this 3:43 minutes long audio learning session, Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker, Principle Scientist and Web Services Security Architect at Verisign, talks about Public Key …

Whether it be hurricane, flood, fire or simply a member of staff accidentally hitting the delete key, your company’s data is constantly at risk from being permanently …

For a moment let’s suppose I am the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation and I send an Instant Message to my General Counsel. He sends me information that should …

The continuance of malicious computer attacks has made security a front page topic in almost every board room and IT oversight committee. Most IT departments accept that …

SQL injection is a technique for exploiting web applications that use client-supplied data in SQL queries without stripping potentially harmful characters first. Despite being …

Cookies provide a method for creating a stateful HTTP session and their recommended use is formally defined within RFC2965 and BCP44. Although they are used for many purposes, …