We give a comprehensive overview of information assurance technologies, with a focus on the emerging third generation information assurance technologies and their relation with more established intrusion detection and prevention Information Assurance technologies. (more…)

As society increasingly relies on digitally stored and accessed information, traditional information security technology, policies, management, and practices are found more and more limited in satisfying the security and assurance needs of modern information systems and applications, for several reasons. In general, addressing only the protection of information against unauthorized disclosure, transfer, modification, or destruction, traditional information security cannot deliver the level of information assurance that modern applications require. (more…)

Internal bank threats are those risks that emanate from within the bank or within the network of the bank that could compromise systems or information. External bank threat, on the other hand, are those originating outside of the bank and attempt to access, maliciously, the systems to manipulate, destroy, or render systems and information unusable. Banks are predominantly concerned with (more…)

As the variety and complexity of online banking offerings increase, many offerings are also fast becoming targets for unauthorized activities, which exploit the nature of online banking services and the flaws in the systems that host the applications and platforms used to offer these services. (more…)

Computer must first run BIOS before it can boot to operating system and running your favorite software application. BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is procedural software that is programmed into a ROM (Read Only Memory). In the 80’s and 90’s, BIOS is sometimes referred as CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor). (more…)