Table of Contents
From the Editors
Charge of the Light Brigade ,Marc Donner, Googlepp. 5-5
News Briefs
News Briefs ,Brandi Ortega, Staff editor pp. 6-8
In Memoriam
James P. Anderson: An Information Security Pioneer Eugene Spafford, Pp. 9
Interview
Silver Bullet Talks with Eugene Spafford Gary McGraw, Cigitalpp. 10-15
Virtual Roundtable
Information Assurance Technology Forecast 2008 Steven M. Bellovin pp. 16-23
Communications Security
Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act
Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University pp. 24-33
Securing Information
Securing Information Transfer in Distributed Computing Environments
Siani Pearson, Hewlett-Packard Labs pp. 34-42
Grid Computing
Grid Computing Security: A Taxonomy Anirban Chakrabarti, pp. 44-51
Security Metrics
Estimating a System's Mean Time-to-Compromise
David John Leversage, British Columbia Institute of Technology pp. 52-60
Education
Combating the Insider Cyber Threat
Frank L. Greitzer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory pp. 61-64
On the Horizon
Taming Virtualization Martim Carbone, pp. 65-67
Crypto Corner
CAPTCHAs: Humans vs. Bots Aleksey Kolupaev, pp. 68-70
Basic Training
Becoming a Security Expert Michael Howard, Microsoft pp. 71-73
Attack Trends
The Confused Deputy and the Domain Hijacker Dave Ahmad, pp. 74-77
Digital Protection
Forum Shopping on the Internet Michael Lesk, Rutgers University pp. 78-80
Building Security In
Security Testing of Internal Tools Edward Bonver, Symantecpp. 81-83
Emerging Standards
An RBAC Implementation and Interoperability Standard: The INCITS Cyber Security 1.1 Model Ed Coyne, pp. 84-87
For Good Measure
What We Got for Christmas Dan Geer, VerdasysDaniel Conway, p. 88 |