Threats on Aquatic Ecosystem- Mitigation and Conservation Strategies

Marine Ecosystem Diversity in the Arabian Gulf: Threats and Conservation

10341 Report - Insider Threats: Strategies for Prevention, Mitigation, and Response

This article summarizes the objectives and structure of a seminar with the same title, held from August 22nd to 26th, 2010, at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The seminar brought together researchers and policy-makers from quite diverse communities, to make progress towards an integrated framework for understanding insider threats and their interaction with organizations and policies. During the sem...

DDoS: threats and mitigation

According to a report from Prolexic, one of the first and largest companies offering DDoS mitigation services, ⁠ attack traffic rose 66% over the course of a year (to Q3 2011). 1 Network-layer attacks accounted for 83%, the rest being application-layer attacks. The average duration was 1.4 days and the average bandwidth consumed was 1.5Gbps. The size of attacks is getting bigger, too. In July 2...

Reassessing Biological Threats: Implications for Cooperative Mitigation Strategies

Multiple factors ranging from globalization to ecosystem disruption are presenting the global community with evolving biological threats to local, national, and global security that reach beyond the realm of traditional bioweapon threats. As a result, mitigation strategies have adapted necessarily to the increased diversity of biological threats. In general, response and preparedness strategies...

Conservation threats

our food security, forests, water, land rights, farmers and indigenous peoples from the aggressive march of agrofuel developments, which are devouring our land and resources at an unbelievable scale and speed. " The petition describes the negative impact of agrofuel programs in several African states. In Tanzania, thousands of farmers have been evicted from their land to make way for large scal...