Securing the Security System

Securing Security through Education

Traditionally security has been the pervasive factor in organizational growth but its importance has surpassed that of any other issue in retaining a competitive advantage. Security is, therefore, of paramount importance in the retention of organizational innovation. The key in building a secure environment lies in an organizations ability to react to changing threats both from within and exter...

Securing the Network: Comparing IP Security Implementations

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current state of IP Security implementations for the Internet Protocol 6. The focus lies on the PC platform and the operating systems BSD, Linux, and Windows. In particular, we introduce the available implementations, describe the state of their development and the features they provide. We test the functionality of each implementation and...

Securing the Rover System

Securing the Domain Name System

44 COPUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER AND RELIABILITY SOCIETIES ■ 1540-7993/09/$26.00 © 2009 IEEE ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 T he Domain Name System (DNS) 1 is the Internet’s de facto name resolution system. In fact, almost every transaction performed on the Internet is prefaced by a DNS lookup—for example, when a user types “www.bankofamerica.com” into his or her Web browser, it issues a DNS reque...

Securing the Domain Name System

44 COPUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER AND RELIABILITY SOCIETIES ■ 1540-7993/09/$26.00 © 2009 IEEE ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 T he Domain Name System (DNS) 1 is the Internet’s de facto name resolution system. In fact, almost every transaction performed on the Internet is prefaced by a DNS lookup—for example, when a user types “www.bankofamerica.com” into his or her Web browser, it issues a DNS reque...