The chapters of this volume are grouped into a number of topical areas — demonstrating that the security canon is a very varied one. As Chris Earnshaw so rightly highlighted in his preface, getting the appropriate security built into new products, systems and services is fundamental to a rosy Internet future. We highlight a number of the vital issues to address as part of that process.
In general, document capture refers to the process of scanning paper documents using scanners or cameras, and transforming these documents into an electronic file such as a PDF, TIFF, and so on. Through a type of document capture software, these electronic files are assessed through character or pattern recognition (that is, OCR, ICR, and OMR) and converted into meaningful data or information, …
When programmers get together to talk, the conversation is likely at some point to turn from .NET frameworks or memory usage patterns to copyrights, patents, or trade secrets. People in the computer field realize that a cluster of legal concerns known as intellectual property (IP) plays a big role in its development. Consider just a few of the headline-making legal issues in technology over the…
Risk is a quantitative evaluation of the potential damage caused by an attack, a vulnerability, or an event impacting the set of company IT assets. A vulnerability (or weakness) is a lack of a safeguard, which may be exploited by a threat, causing harm to the information systems; specifically it can be a software flaw that permits an exogenous agent to use a computer system without authorizat…
The class of Lévy processes consists of all stochastic processes with stationary and independent increments; here ‘stationarity’ means that increments corresponding to a fixed time interval are identically distributed, whereas ‘independence’ refers to the property that increments corresponding to non-overlapping time intervals behave statistically independently. As such, Lévy proces…
The personal computer (PC) has changed everything—for both better and worse—in the world of statistics. The PC can effortlessly produce precise cal- culations and eliminate the computational burden associated with statistics. One need only provide the right questions. With the minimal knowledge required to program (instruct) statistical software, which entails telling it where the input dat…
The clinician’s skills in integrating sources of information, contemplating the meanings of discrepant cues, formulating opinions, and persuading others to listen constitute the focus of this book. This process involves four steps: (1) identifying the problem, (2) selecting measurement instruments, (3) integrating sources of information about the problem, and (4) deriving and reporting conclu…
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