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Cryptocurrency and Online Multiplayer Games

The era of cryptocurrency opens new possibilities for game publishers and developers. However, it is not yet a fully-developed market and there are many things that should be taken into account before entering it. This article reviews the main pros and cons of entering this new and highly volatile field.

Anton Telitsyn
on Nov 30, 2017
Cloud Data Auditing Techniques with a Focus on Privacy and Security

The authors provide a guide to the current literature regarding comprehensive auditing methodologies. They not only identify and categorize the different approaches to cloud data integrity and privacy but also compare and analyze their relative merits. For example, their research lists the strengths and weaknesses of earlier work on cloud auditing, which allows researchers to design new methods.

Saied M. Abd El-atty Manjur Kolhar Mosleh M. Abu-Alhaj
on Jul 30, 2017
Architecture & Design

Philipp Jovanovic on NORX, IoT Security and Blockchain

In this interview, originally published on InfoQ France, Mathieu Bolla talks to Philipp Jovanovic, a Cryptographer at EPFL, about NORX, IoT Security and keeping yourself safe on-line, and Blockchain.

Mathieu Bolla Philipp Jovanovic
on May 22, 2017
DevOps

Securing the Modern Software Delivery Lifecycle

Information security practice has evolved to be pretty good at granting and managing access to confidential information - by people. But automation is taking over, requiring a shift in how we think about securing our infrastructure and applications.

Dustin Collins
on Feb 27, 2016
Answering Common Cloud Security Questions from CIOs

With the news stories of possible data breaches at enterprises like Target, and the current trend of companies migrating to cloud environments for the flexibility, scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness they offer, CIOs have been asking hard questions about cloud security.

Gilad Parran-Nissany
on Feb 12, 2014
Keeping Your Secrets

Dennis Sosnoski explains how supposedly-secure connections can be downgraded to the point where they are easily broken and how even at full strength most forms of encryption are vulnerable to data capture and later decryption if your private keys are exposed. In this article you'll learn some ways of making it more difficult for anyone to see or alter your data exchanges.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Sep 30, 2013
Automating Data Protection Across the Enterprise

This article builds on the foundational Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3) architecture for application security in the cloud by defining a Data Encryption Infrastructure(DEI) which is not application specific. DEI encompasses technology components and an application architecture that governs the protection of sensitive data within an enterprise.

Arshad Noor
on Feb 07, 2013
Encrypting the Internet

The authors, from Intel, offer a three pronged approach to providing secure transmission of high volume HTML traffic: new CPU instructions to accelerate cryptographic operations; a novel implementation of the RSA algorithm to accelerate public key encryption; and using SMT to balance web server and cryptographic operations. Their approach, they claim, leads to significant cost savings.

Satyajit Grover Michael Kounavis andFrank Berry Xiaozhu Kang
on Sep 22, 2009
Automating File Uploads with SSH and Ruby

In this article, Matthew Bass guides you step-by-step through the process of creating your own version of a Ruby script to automate file uploads using SSH. Complete source code examples are included, with line-by-line analysis of what the code is doing. A good introduction to Ruby as a powerful scripting language.

Matthew Bass
on May 29, 2007