Security vs. Fear

Security vs safety

1 Background This brief paper is written for use in the course ‘Security – analyse og ledelse’. The main purpose of the paper is to introduce the term security and to discuss differences between security and safety. The reason for this discussion is security management’s lack of academic foothold. Nevertheless, safety management has a long tradition of scientific research. Thus, as will be show...

Letters: Convenience vs. Security

Video CAPTCHAs: Usability vs. Security

A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computer and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a variation of the Turing test, in which a challenge is used to distinguish humans from computers (‘bots’) on the internet. They are commonly used to prevent the abuse of online services; for example, malicious users have written automated programs that signup for thousands of free email accounts and send S...

Security Issues: Public vs Private vs Hybrid Cloud Computing

Cloud computing appears as a new paradigm and its main objective is to provide secure, quick, convenient data storage and net computing service. Even though cloud computing effectively reduces the cost and maintenance of IT industry security issues plays a very important role. More and more IT companies are shifting to cloud based service like Private, Public and Hybrid cloud computing. But at ...

Security Busters: Web browser security vs. rogue sites

URL blacklists are used by the majority of modern web browsers as a means to protect users from rogue web sites, i.e. those serving malware and/or hosting phishing scams. There is a plethora of URL blacklists/reputation services, out of which Google’s Safe Browsing and Microsoft’s SmartScreen stand out as the two most commonly used ones. Frequently, such lists are the only safeguard web browser...