INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD NAME Abstract Information security is the process of detecting and preventing unauthorized users access to your network, computer, and ultimately your personal information. Information security is huge and many casual users do not even think about it, or if they do, only as an afterthought. This is one of the worst things that you can do in this day and age especially with the abundance of
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I have learned a lot of informative information in this class. From reading the book to doing the actual virtual assigned labs. The labs were very detailed which made is very interesting to work on them. Completing the class labs made the book make a lot more sense because I was able to do the actual hands on part with the labs on the virtual network. One interesting thing I learned taking this class was about the CAC card that I thought was just a very simple access card, but taking this class Dr
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Malaysian E-Commerce Websites Syahida Hassan Mohd Khairudin Kasiran Graduate Department of Information Technology Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok Kedah, Malaysia syahida@uum.edu.my mkasiran@uum.edu.my Abstract The concept of trusted services forms a key issue for any kind of electronic services. Third Party Certification (TPC) endorsement has been used as one of the methods to instill consumers’ trust. Creating initial trust through implementation of TPC is very important because the consumer has a
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Abstract E-commerce has presented a new way of doing business all over the world using internet. Organizations have changed their way of doing business from a traditional approach to embrace ecommerce processes. As individuals and businesses increase information sharing, a concern regarding the exchange of money securely and conveniently over the internet increases. Therefore, security is a necessity in an e-commerce transaction. The purpose of this paper is to present a token based Secure E-commerce
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of research is going on, to improve the performance of issues like handoffs, routing etc. Security is another key issue that needs to be considered, which comes into picture once the communication channel is setup. Many security protocols are being proposed for different applications like Wireless Application Protocol, 802.11 etc. most of them are based on the public and private key cryptography. This paper provides an insight on these cryptographic protocols and also looks into the current
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part of the public key infrastructure. These certificates helps the users to trust the website information confirming it is secure and a trusted party. CSR refers to Certificate Signing Request. Whenever a CSR is sent to the certificate authority, it is sent along with the public key and the other specific information possessed only by the owner. The CA then verifies the identity of the owner with the information provided by the owner. It then issues a certificate with the public key stating that
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logical design C) testing plan D) co-location plan 5. The leading Web server software is: A) Apache. B) Microsoft Internet Information Server. C) Sun. D) Zeus. 6. Which of the following is used to process certificates and private/public key information? A) HTTP B) SSL C) FTP D) data capture tools 7. Which of the following cannot be used to retrieve objects from a database? A) CGI B) ASP C) JSP D) HTML 8. Which of the following types of servers monitors and controls access
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Interested in learning more about security? SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room This paper is from the SANS Institute Reading Room site. Reposting is not permitted without express written permission. SSL Man-in-the-Middle Attacks TCP/IP protocols have long been subject to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, but the advent of SSL/TLS was supposed to mitigate that risk for web transactions by providing endpoint authentication and encryption. The advent of Dug Song's 'webmitm' in late 2000 demonstrated
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protecting individual from misuse information about them. 2. Explain the main difference between Secret-Key Cryptography and Public-Key Cryptography. Secret-Key Cryptography the key is private and with Public-Key Cryptography the key is public. 3. What is the digital signature? A technology used to associate a users’ identity to a public key, in which the user’s public key is digitally signed by a trusted third party. 4. What is packet sniffer? Is a software that examines
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