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Emerging Technologies in Computing: Theory, Practice, and Advances reviews the past, current, and future needs of technologies in the computer science field while it also discusses the emerging importance of appropriate practices, advances, and their impact. It outlines emerging technologies and their principles, challenges, and applications as well as issues involved in the digital age. With the rapid development of technologies, it becomes increasingly important for us to remain up to date on...

A massive 300 deadly killer sudoku puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect gift book for the avid killer sudoku fan. The 9 x 9 sudoku grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found at the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

With the spread of Web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. It's one topic, in fact, that .NET forces you to address, since Microsoft has placed security-related features at the core of the .NET Framework. Yet, because a developer's carelessness or lack ofexperience can still allow a program to be used in an unintended way, Programming .NET Security shows you how the various tools will help you write secu...

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the design, performance analysis and evaluation of modulation schemes to be used in wireless and optical networks, towards the development of the next and future generations of mobile cellular communication systems. Modulation Theory is intended to serve as a complementary textbook for courses dealing with Modulation Theory or Communication Systems, but also as a professional book, for engin...

With rapid progress in Internet and digital imaging technology, there are more and more ways to easily create, publish, and distribute images. Considered the first book to focus on the relationship between digital imaging and privacy protection, Visual Cryptography and Secret Image Sharing is a complete introduction to novel security methods and sharing-control mechanisms used to protect against unauthorized data access and secure dissemination of sensitive information. Image data protection an...

Written with the manager in mind, the book is packed with useful advice, practical guidance, and insights into the managerial implications of data protection. The authors were faced with implementing the Data Protection Act, and training others to do so. They have since been faced with the post-registration implications. The book tackles the real issues that managers face in giving effect to the Data Protection Principles, and offers practical solutions. It also points out the hidden (as well as...

Automate the fundamental structure of your cloud account with reliable coded security and governance in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. This practical guide shows security professionals, DevOps teams, and others responsible for securing workloads in the cloud how to capture, secure, and control specific infrastructure control elements. You'll learn how to deploy security compliant processes for IT elements, such as pre-defining and constraining the design of AWS Identify and Access Man...

As old as the threat of danger itself, vulnerability management (VM) has been the responsibility of leaders in every human organization, from tribes and fiefdoms right up through modern multinationals. Today, the focus of vulnerability management is still on infrastructure, but as knowledge is power and the lifeblood of any organization is its capacity for quick system-wide response, current emphasis needs to be placed on maintaining the integrity of IT applications, so critical to the real and...

Electrical energy usage is increasing every year due to population growth and new forms of consumption. As such, it is increasingly imperative to research methods of energy control and safe use. Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on the development of smart grid technology and best practices of utilization. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as threat de...

TCC 2005, the 2nd Annual Theory of Cryptography Conference, was held in Cambridge,Massachusetts,onFebruary10-12,2005.Theconferencereceived84 submissions,ofwhichtheprogramcommitteeselected32forpresentation.These proceedings contain the revised versions of the submissions that were presented at the conference. These revisions have not been checked for correctness, and the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. The conference program also included a panel discussion on t...

Ce recueil de problemes corriges vise a proposer des voyages initiatiques a quelques domaines de la science informatique. Ces problemes ont tous ete poses au concours d'entree en troisieme annee de l'ENS de Cachan, section informatique, ou a feu l'option mathematiques de l'informatique de l'Agregation de mathematiques. Ils ont ete concus par des enseignants chercheurs en informatique du CNRS ou de l'Universite, et ont pour but principal de tester la capacite des etudiants a comprendre des concep...

Understanding DB2 9 Security is the only comprehensive guide to securing DB2 and leveraging the powerful new security features of DB2 9. Direct from a DB2 Security deployment expert and the IBM® DB2 development team, this book gives DBAs and their managers a wealth of security information that is available nowhere else. It presents real-world implementation scenarios, step-by-step examples, and expert guidance on both the technical and human sides of DB2 security.   This book’s material is or...

Despite the glaring holes in the security of the Internet, many users, including business users, send e-mail with no understanding of this fact. The author explains how PGP and S/MIME work and how to take advantage of them.

This book is the ideal guide for anyone tackling - or about to tackle - ISO27001 for the first time. It gives a clear overview of: * how to get management and board buy-in; * how to get cross-organizational, cross functional buy-in; * the gap analysis: how much do you really need to do? * the relationship between ISO27001 and ISO17799; * how to integrate with ISO9001 and other management systems; * how to structure and resource your project; * use consultants or do it youself? * the PDCA cycle;...

Paranoia is a useful code to live by in the digital age. Consider, every time you use a credit card, the Internet or your mobile phone, the one thing that stands between you and everyone else knowing your business is cryptography - the making of secret ciphers. Yet rather than safeguarding this fragile privacy, powerful government forces have been fighting since the 1980s to keep crypto under their control. But while the offical forces warn of unrestrained criminality and terrorism, those square...