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It is interesting how we forget that information assurance and security is not always a technology problem. If you go to a major security conference there will be plenty of hardware vendors standing around but I’ve never seen psychologists or psychiatrists trotting out methods of determining insider threats. Sabotage, and destruction of company assets has [...]

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Where have we been? What are the effects of massive surveillance programs on society, but more importantly for our purposes on the enterprise? Companies use data mining and dataveillance technologies as techniques to increase profit share and that results in significant ethical and moral consequences. Beyond should we or shouldn’t we there is a question [...]

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When does the act of a nation state take on the specter of war? Consider if you will that at some point a transgression most assuredly has the emotional and physical manifestations of war. The Japanese attack against United States interests in Pearl Harbor most assuredly was war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident precipitated the [...]

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I’ve wanted for some time to increase the number of book reviews I publish and to get them up a little faster. I’ve been re-reading a bunch of my computer security books and the review for today is Computer Capers: Tales of electronic thievery embezzlement and fraud. This is a great, timely, interesting, and of [...]

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Welcome to the spring edition of CIT Security Topics. For those of you wondering the topics for the course this semester will be as follows:

How to survive and other myths of graduate school
Spying, dataveilance, other tomfoolery you don’t know about
Sabotage, bad things happen to good people and other happy thoughts
Fear, uncertainty, doubt and other ways [...]

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Back in 2007 I made some pretty significant predictions.  I would like to say that making predictions is not nearly as hard as you would think. The way technology is adapted is pretty straight forward. So to recap this is the 2007 predictions and status.

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Here are some pictures from last night.  The snow that fell was soon covered by a half inch of ice.

That left areas like the park looking like an ice-rink. To say the footing and driving is treacherous would be an understatement.

Getting down this road with the thick coating of ice was difficult to say the [...]

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The students of ITS 470 Large Scale  High Performance Systems created a cloud operating system. This presentation will give you a good over view of the topic. I won’t comment on the student with the horrible British accent. I won’t comment on our opening narrator stumbling over the introduction. I won’t comment on the fact [...]

 

 ITS 470 Cloud Computing Infrastructure: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Cloud computing is a developing section of high performance computing.  High performance computing includes many facets such as availability, processing, and reliability.  In this project the facet of reliability is examined.  Increasing the number of machines is one way to increase reliability.  Introducing a load balancer to split the requests between computers and monitor computer [...]

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