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- PCI DSS and HIPAA: The Security Standards Share Common Ground
- One of the greatest challenges that the electronic transactions industry faces today is the issue of security requirements under various rules and regulations. For most people in the industry, the issue is focused on the specifics of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS, but the issue may...
- Tags: Security Requirement, Industry, Security Standard, CSRSI, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, PCI, Regulations, Security, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-01
- IPsec/VPN Security Policy Engineering: Automatic Generation and Conflict Detection
- IPsec is a useful IP layer security protocol which can provide authentication and encryption for end-to-end traffic flow, but configuring IPsec VPN tunnels is notoriously complicated because it has so many options (key exchange, ciphers, authentication etc) to configure. Thus the ultimate solutions to the security requirements are often prone...
- Tags: Security Requirement, Tunnel, IPSec, VPNs, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Designing an Effective Wireless LAN
- This sample chapter from The Business Case for Enterprise-Class Wireless LANsdiscusses key architectural, design, and environmental considerations required for WLANs. Guidelines and recommended practices include: Determining the goal of the WLANDefining the scope of the WLANDeveloping your timeframe to deployConsidering security requirements and implications earlyIdentifying the types of devices you...
- Tags: business case, Cisco Systems Inc., Enterprise-Class Wireless LAN, LAN, security, security requirement, staffing, wireless, WLAN
- Download resources 2006-05-23
- IPSec/VPN Security Policy Correctness and Assurance
- With IPSec/VPN policies being widely deployed, how to correctly specify and configure them is critical in enforcing security requirements. Under current practice, IPSec/VPN policies are usually specified manually by system administrators and thus prone to errors. However, dynamic aspects in the network may interfere with the existing policy set up...
- Tags: Security Requirement, IPSec, VPNs, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-05-23
- 10 New Year's resolutions for net admins
- Lining up priorities and planning improvements sounds like business as usual for network administrators. But now's the time to take a broad view and see what you want to accomplish over the entire year to come. IT pros are focusing their attention on a variety of concerns...
- Tags: Security Requirement, Administrator, Information Technology, Strategy, Security, Management
- Download resources 2005-12-20
- Security Requirements in Service Oriented Architectures for Ubiquitous Computing
- This work presents a detailed analysis of the security requirements for Service Oriented Architecture in mobile computing, still missing in the current literature. The purpose of this work is twofold. First, to provide protocol architects and software engineers with a map of security requirements in ubiquitous computing, through the evaluation...
- Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Ubiquitous Computing, SOA, Association For Computing Machinery, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-02-20
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Discover how a Leading Public Health Authority Adopted a Security Enhancing Remote-Access Solution
- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Information Systems team required a secure solution that enabled remote desktop access for faculty and staff working remotely. The solution needed to meet the school's security requirements, including HIPAA compliance, and could impose no additional burden on network staff, a requirement that...
- Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Team, Public Health, Team Management, Healthcare, Management
- Case studies 2004-10-28
- Five steps to designing a secure system with TCB
- A secure system is built around the principles of a trusted computing base TCB, which incorporates mechanisms for identifying and authenticating users (I&A), controlling access to system objects, and auditing users’ actions. A TCB's goals are to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, availability, accountability, and assurance of the system. It also...
- Tags: Loyalty Tracking System, Ronald Anthony Lewis, security, secure system, trusted computing base, Trusted Computing, security requirement
- Technical articles 2003-01-14
- Design for security up front in the development process
- Avoid the scramble of backfilling security holes by planning ahead. Don't let your development cycle reach implementation without a security design in place--you will have waited too long.By Ronald Anthony LewisThe need for security is often realized too late in the development life cycle. Of the five basic phases—initiation, development,...
- Tags: ZDNet , security, initiation, security policy, security requirement
- Technical articles 2002-10-25
- Engineer security during initiation phase to help prevent system vulnerabilities
- Security can be an overlooked aspect of system development; often the need for it is realized during implementation. Avoid scrambling to handle such vulnerabilities by planning security measures during project initiation.Within the five basic phases of the development life cycle—initiation, development, implementation, maintenance, and decommissioning/disposal—the need for security is often...
- Tags: Ronald Anthony Lewis, security, initiation, security policy, security requirement
- Technical articles 2002-10-01
Additional Resources
- The New PCI Requirement: Application Firewall Vs. Code Review
- Those enterprises which handles credit card information, must meet the requirements under the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard version 1.1 PCI DSS. With PCI requirement 6.6, the brand new Web application security requirement, and its company's choice - they can have their code reviewed by an external company...
- Tags: Imperva, Application Firewall, Firewalls, PCI, Networking, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-12
- Selected Scenarios for Enhancing Security With Windows Vista
- A secure operating system platform is a fundamental requirement of trustworthy computing, and Microsoft Windows Vista meets that requirement by building a security infrastructure that offers a usable, consistent, and manageable experience. Microsoft uses engineering best practices and state-of-the-art tools to help ensure the Windows Vista operating system is secure...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Application Security, Operating System Platform, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- The Site of Requirement Widget (widget)
- The Site of Requirement Widget counts down to the 5th Harry Potter movie and displays RSS headlines from The Site of Requirement. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: RSS, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-06-21
- ALD Puts BMC Remedy Action Request System at the Heart of Its IT Service Infrastructure
- As a financial service provider ALD Automotive ALD needs to examine all new applications with regards to security. ALD's requirement was for a comprehensive help desk solution that could go live as quickly as possible but which would offer the security a financial business needs. Flexibility was also a key...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Remedy Corp., ALD, ALD Automotive, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Case studies
- Creating Security for E-Government Services
- This white paper describes the authorities for Federal agency information security, including relevant laws, regulations, guidelines and directives. These include the requirement for agencies to use Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS security products whenever possible to achieve security of E-Gov information and systems. COTS products help agencies because they are easier to...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Agency, COTS, E-government, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2004-11-18
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Security Using ISO 27001
- Whilst the intentions and objectives behind ISO/IEC 27001:2005 (ISO 27001) aren't dramatically different to those in BS 7799- 2:2002, one of the changes with the biggest potential impact to organisations is the requirement to measure the effectiveness of selected controls - or groups of controls - within the new. This...
- Tags: Security, Siemens AG, ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-02-28
- Calculating badnwidth requirement per user
- How do I determine and actually calculate the bandwidth requirement per user in a campus LAN based on the number of sessions and diferent user application (email, file transfer, internet browsing etc)?Thanks!!
- Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, lasborn@...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Security Architecture Model Component Overview
- In the dynamic world in which companies operate, securing transactions, data, and infrastructure components is much more complicated. A successful security architecture combines a heterogeneous combination of policies and leading practices, technology, and a sound education and awareness program. The recipe for pulling these components together to meet the standards...
- Tags: Security Architecture, Security
- White papers 2001-11-27
- Demystifying Security Enhanced (SE) Linux
- This flavor of Linux has strong Mandatory Access control Built into the kernel where by the process and objects such as files are classified based on the confidentiality and integrity requirement, hence the affect of a security breach is reduced to minimal. It is to be noted that this does...
- Tags: Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-12-21
- Implementing a Requirement Driven Development Process: How Modern Requirement Driven Development Processes Can Be Effectively Implemented Using StarTeam and JBuilder
- This paper describes how business users and analysts can drive the requirement definition process, starting with Borland's CaliberRM, to create and manage requirements. Use case definition, using the Rational Rose UML modeling tool included with the Borland Enterprise Studio, is the next stage of the process and is driven by...
- Tags: Borland JBuilder, IBM Rational Rose, Requirement, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-10-04
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