What keeps national security experts who study this up at night, is the fact that an EMP blast has the capability to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure such as telecommunications, computer systems, and even the power grid.
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Dr. Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security, carried out an in-depth study of the attitudes of security architects and security executives in large enterprises.
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The new report is a joint study from security firms Symantec, Kaspersky, the Crypto Labs in Budapest and the UN's International Telecommunications Union.
More than 30, 000 PCs a day globally are being recruited into networks that spread spam and viruses, a study from security from Symantec showed last year.
The Times said in an extensive article dated Wednesday that it had worked with computer security experts to monitor, study and then eject the attackers.
It is also boosting the academic study of nuclear security.
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This was underlined by a study of star security analysts in American investment banks in 1988-96, conducted by Boris Groysberg of Harvard Business School and Ashish Nanda of Harvard Law School.
One RAND study suggested that Social Security depresses the American fertility rate by as much as 0.5.
The top four industries represented in the study are weapons and security, aerospace, government agencies and information technology.
Professor Nie and her team study issues such as food security (ensuring that China has enough food to feed its population), specializing in meat.
According to a study by Web-focused security firm White Hat Security last year, at least two-thirds of sites suffer from some form of the vulnerability.
Under economic issues, the study asked respondents about job security.
Last month, Princeton researchers submitted a report based on their study of the machines' security, part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic against the state government aimed at decertifying Sequoia machines.
In fact, cloud-based applications are less likely to be attacked than on-premises environments, a new study of 70, 000 security breaches for a 12-month period across 1, 600 companies, released by by Alert Logic, a security vendor, concludes.
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The cabinet recently decided to study other ways of improving food security, perhaps creating a new holding company to buy farms and fisheries overseas.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
In its response to a draft of the GAO study, the State Department says security upgrades since the 1998 bombings have prevented terrorist attacks at U.S. diplomatic posts in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Austria.
At the same time, about 30% of non-IT corporate employees violate the terms of security agreements they sign, according to another study performed by the firm, which surveyed hundreds of professionals in seven countries around the world.
In view of its impact on collective security interests and existing alliance agreements, a counterpart study should be initiated at once with the allies.
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Ralph Langner, a German computer security researcher who was among the first people to study Stuxnet, told various media outlets that after Stuxnet recognizes its specific target, it does something no other malware program has ever done.
Keep in mind, however, that the study was commissioned by the Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition.
California's study was hardly the first to alert the security world to the threat of electronic voting's flaws.
Barlinnie, in particular, provided its top-security prisoners with considerable freedom to develop skills, to study and to associate within a secure environment.
The unusually long-term study, developed in collaboration with the Social Security Administration, covered some 40 years across the lifespan of more than 2, 000 women.
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The study was published to coincide with Infosec - an annual security conference in London.
Under its procedures, lower-level career officials in the departments study proposed foreign investments to see whether they pose any security threats.
GAO's study, which lasted 14 months, examined all major security upgrades at U.S. diplomatic posts from fiscal years 2004 through 2007.
"There are a lot characteristics of this study that ultimately boil down to human behavior more than security issues, " he said.
The magnitude of the sums involved was first suggested in a study issued over two years ago by the Center for Security Policy.
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