"It's a status quo document, I think, in virtually every respect, " said Bruce Blair, president of World Security Institute and co-coordinator of Global Zero, a disarmament group.

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Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the World Security Institute in Washington, noted that Mr. Putin had also effectively mobilized his supporters in several cities notably with a large rally in Moscow on Feb. 4.

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Russia has reluctantly agreed to remove its troops by 2008, but Ivan Safranchuk of the World Security Institute says Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili wants them out as soon as possible since they stand in the way of his desire for Georgia to join NATO.

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Mr. IVAN SAFRANCHUK (World Security Institute): Georgia may benefit from it or on the contrary, Georgia may lose from that, because if Georgia fails to prove that there was some espionage activity, then I think Russia will have all the right to be very tough on Georgia.

NPR: Russia and Georgia Dispute Spies, Soldiers

Kerberos gained pre-eminence because it is clever, and because its developers, computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released the source code, which let security experts around the world debug and refine the program line by line.

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"We understand full well that the free flow of capital is a pillar of our leadership and competitiveness in the world, " says the Casey Institute's Roger W. Robinson, a former Reagan National Security Council senior director of international economic affairs who is widely credited as being behind the global transparency and disclosure initiative.

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For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).

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The al-Assad regime "probably has the largest and most advanced chemical warfare program in the Arab world, " according to Michael Eisenstadt, senior fellow and director of the military and security studies program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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