The chapters of this volume are grouped into a number of topical areas — demonstrating that the security canon is a very varied one. As Chris Earnshaw so rightly highlighted in his preface, getting the appropriate security built into new products, systems and services is fundamental to a rosy Internet future. We highlight a number of the vital issues to address as part of that process.
In general, document capture refers to the process of scanning paper documents using scanners or cameras, and transforming these documents into an electronic file such as a PDF, TIFF, and so on. Through a type of document capture software, these electronic files are assessed through character or pattern recognition (that is, OCR, ICR, and OMR) and converted into meaningful data or information, …
When programmers get together to talk, the conversation is likely at some point to turn from .NET frameworks or memory usage patterns to copyrights, patents, or trade secrets. People in the computer field realize that a cluster of legal concerns known as intellectual property (IP) plays a big role in its development. Consider just a few of the headline-making legal issues in technology over the…
Risk is a quantitative evaluation of the potential damage caused by an attack, a vulnerability, or an event impacting the set of company IT assets. A vulnerability (or weakness) is a lack of a safeguard, which may be exploited by a threat, causing harm to the information systems; specifically it can be a software flaw that permits an exogenous agent to use a computer system without authorizat…
This paper reviews a number of recent surveys relevant to risk management by UK insurers. These include the results of four surveys specifically on UK insurers. Our findings suggest that the risk management practices of UK insurers are variable, generally behind best practices in adjacent sectors, and in some cases are a cause of concern. However, we also find that they have been improving sign…
This booklet for teachers is the second of the three books in the “Towards Excellence...” series. These books were first authored and published by me with generous financial help from the Director, St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, Mangalore, India, and distributed for free to schools, Pre-University, Degree and Professional colleges in Mangalore Dioces area. The books were receive…
There has been an increasing amount of talk about “employee stress” over the past decade. Quite what it is and how best to combat it are two aspects which are rather less well-documented. This chapter will try to decide – in a non-medical way – what it may be, how it may be caused, what relevance it has to organisations and their business and how it can best be avoided or treated. Str…
The class of Lévy processes consists of all stochastic processes with stationary and independent increments; here ‘stationarity’ means that increments corresponding to a fixed time interval are identically distributed, whereas ‘independence’ refers to the property that increments corresponding to non-overlapping time intervals behave statistically independently. As such, Lévy proces…