The Value of Knowing Your Enemy

Digital Defense : Goals , Missions , Achievements

battlefield. Some twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun-Tzu taught us that if you knew the enemy and yourself, you would never be in danger in hundreds of battles. Sun-Tzu’s words, “Know your enemy,” mean knowing the enemy leader’s intentions. Sun-Tzu thought that if we knew the enemy's intentions, we could win a victory without war against the enemy. However, it is very difficult to find out the ...

What if you can't sense your enemy… and your enemy is an invasive predator?

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Who is a really successful manager? A manager who spends less money, or the one who earns more? A manager who can survive for a longer period of time, or an administrator who expands his organization, and opens up new branches? Which one is the most successful? The article tries to answer these questions and provides, some simple guidlines for the managers in every domain of management who wan...

Addressing Issues of Cloud Resilience, Security and Performance through Simple Detection of Co-locating Sibling Virtual Machine Instances

Most current Infrastructure Clouds are built on shared tenancy architectures, with resources shared amongst large numbers of customers. However, multi tenancy can lead to performance issues (so-called “noisy neighbours”) and also brings potential for serious security breaches such as hypervisor breakouts. Consequently, there has been a focus in the literature on identifying co-locating instance...

Comparative studyof verse 179 of Surah Al-Imran with a focus on detection criteria sincere from hypocrite

One of the necessary knowledge that it brings felicity to man and society, “Identify enemy”. The subject of “Identify enemy” in Islam is of high importance and is one of the concerns of the Prophet (PBUH) for his nation; especially the recognition of hypocrites from true believers. The subject of knowing the true believers of the hypocrites is described as” detection criteria believers from hyp...

Knowing the Enemy at the Gates: Measuring Attacker Motivation

Traditional cost-benefit analysis (CBA) quantifies the value of information security safeguards in terms of their expenses compared to their savings before and after their implementation. This paper considers CBA from the attacker's viewpoint, adding another type of measurement, the willingness to endure consequences. We propose a new set of equations and examine their implications vis-à-vis tw...