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/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ ​ The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing 1 The cloud model is composed of 5 essential characteristics (Ondemand self-services; Broad network access; Resource pooling; Rapid ...

In today’s office environment, we often share information like reports, presentations and minutes among colleagues. We have been taught how to connect to the departmental share drive through a network drive letter to store and access files in a traditional file folder structure. This works quite ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The term APT was first used by U.S. Air Force back in 2006 to facilitate discussion about a set intrusion activities with specific characteristics. These days, APT is often used ...

Phishing email spreads over the Internet from time to time. You may have received suspicious email telling you that your computer account has problems/will expire/has exceeded quota/etc. and requires you to verify your identity by clicking on a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to a web page, and then ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ There is a massive upsurge of mobile devices in the consumer market. Corporations are also demanding their employees to have instant connectivity to their working environment ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ To ensure that data centres meet the reliability and performance needs of universities, and achieve the comprehensive protection from various security threats, a number of aspects ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Vulnerabilities of data centres are found in their physical security, systems / devices hosted and management procedures implemented. Several common exploitation techniques are ...

What is Information Rights Management? Information Rights Management (IRM) is a technology that protects sensitive information from unauthorized access. It allows information owners/publishers to distribute sensitive information to specific individuals. When an email or a document is protected by ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ While data centre management is a cost-saving approach and brings a lot benefits including increased productivity, higher reliability, improved security and compliance, however ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Data center management is a holistic process to oversee the operational and technical issues within a data centre or server room. It covers environmental control, physical ...