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The security risks and ways to decrease vulnerabilities in a 802.11b wireless environment
<font size="3"><b>Introduction</b></font><br></br><br> This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help ...
Written by: Richard Johnson and added on May 6, 2011Designing Secure Networks Based on the Software Process Model
Network security engineers, following in the wake of software engineers, are scrambling to find their own silver bullet to provide solutions in the network security world. Much like software engineers ...
Written by: Paul Innella and added on May 14, 2011Castles Built on Sand: Why Software is Insecure
We have all heard reports of vulnerabilities being discovered in various software. But what actually makes software more or less secure than the rest of its competitors? Theoretically, all software ...
Written by: Josh Ryder and added on June 13, 2011Common issues in PKI implementations
This paper is an attempt to go beyond the many conceptual papers published about Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and look at the actual problems experienced when implementing it. In particular, ...
Written by: Angela Keith and added on Feb. 4, 2011A Concept for Universal Identification
The goal of this paper is to provide a detailed look at a new perspective for a unified, secure and consolidated form of personal identification. The advanced yet inexpensive technology ...
Written by: Daniel E Williams and added on May 25, 2011The Risks Involved With Open and Closed Public Key Infrastructure
Over the past couple of decades, on-line communication, especially electronic mail and on-line shopping, has changed the way that people transfer sensitive information to and from each other. As long ...
Written by: Philip Hlavaty and added on March 23, 2011No Single Killer App for PKI
This paper covers the well known security functions enabled by PKI, more attention, however is focused on business and technology issues associated with PKI implementations. Talk about Public Key Infrastructure ...
Written by: Cliff Schiller and added on March 25, 2011PKI, The What, The Why, and The How
The purpose of this paper is to describe what Public Key Architecture (PKI) is, and how it can help organizations and individuals during the enactment of electronic transactions. I want ...
Written by: Duncan_Wood and added on May 7, 2011A vulnerability assessment of roaming soft certificate PKI solutions
In the past two or three years most major PKI technology vendors have released products which allow digital certificate holders with "soft certificates" to have their private keys stored at ...
Written by: Stephen Wilson and added on Jan. 6, 2011Decommissioning Certification Authorities
This paper outlines the process of terminating a certificate authority, this requires planning several physical, logical and human aspects. Security of information and reputation is at risk. The current and ...
Written by: Claudia N. Lukas and added on Jan. 3, 2011