Private security beyond private military and security companies: exploring diversity within private-public collaborations and its consequences for security governance

Contemporary Security and Private Security Companies: Privatization of Security and Consequences

With the end of the Cold War and the corresponding shift in military doctrine, the structure and deployment of national armed forces, as well as the core change in comprehension of (inter-)/national security and (inter-)/national security threats, the role of private security providers gained a new momentum. The increased involvement of private military security companies in the provision of pr...

Private versus Public Old-age Security

We compare two institutions head on, a family compact – a parent makes a transfer to her parent in anticipation of a possible future gift from her children – with a pay-as-you-go, social security system in a lifecycle model with endogenous fertility wherein children are valued both as consumption and investment goods. Our focus is strictly on the pension dimension of these competing institution...

Security in Private Database Clouds

Security in Private Database Clouds

Security in Virtual private network

Information security, sometimes shortened to Info Sec, is the practice of defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. It is a general term that can be used regardless of the form the data may take (e.g. electronic, physical). Virtual private networks (VPNs) offer low-cost, secure, dynamic access to pri...