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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Security Practices"”.
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Evaluating the legitimacy of national security practices and anti-terrorism legislation
… and each State has modified its national security and anti-terrorism legislation accordingly. This thesis attempts to critically explore and examine the legality and constitutional legitimacy of the means that the UK and Pakistan have used to deal with terrorism after 9/I1, giving equal …
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Exploring factors that affect adoption of computer security practices among college students
<p>Cyber-attacks threaten the security of computer users’ information, networks, machines, and privacy. Studies of computer security education, awareness, and training among ordinary computer users, college students, non-IT-oriented user groups, and non-technically trained citizens are limited. …
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Nutrition, Health, and Food Security Practices, Concerns, and Perceived Barriers of Latino Farm/Industry Workers in Virginia
… workers also are at an increased risk of food insecurity due to low incomes, low literacy, poor health, migratory lifestyles, and lack of transportation (Shotland, 1989). The evidence from the literature suggest that long work hours, low wages, inconsistent work opportunities, and linguistic and …
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Exploring the Connection Between Digital Literacy and Data Privacy and Security Practices Among Early Childhood Professionals in British Columbia
… between digital literacy and data privacy and security practices among Early Childhood Professionals (ECPs) in British Columbia. As society's digitization continues to expand, the protection of personal data, especially that of vulnerable populations such as children, has become a paramount …
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Bridging Security and Agility: A Comprehensive Approach to Integrating Security Practices in Agile Development through DAST, LLMs, and Automation
Effectively integrating security practices within Agile software development is essential as software systems become complex and critical. While Agile methodologies are widely adopted for their responsiveness and efficiency, many security practices remain documentation-heavy and process-driven, …
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Development of a Landscape Vulnerability Assessment Model in a Heightened Security Environment
Do current landscape security practices provide sufficient protection to support building sustainability in the event of a terrorist attack? By exploring the relative effectiveness of current landscape security practices and methodologies, this thesis proposes to provide the landscape architect …
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Lethal Surveillance: Drones and the Geo-History of Modern War
… to current American military engagements and security practices more generally. Much of the scholarship on drones and many other contemporary military technologies tends to view the technology as radically new, missing both the historical development of these objects as well as the …
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Communicative action in information security systems: an application of social theory in a technical domain
… that is the subject of this study is information security. It is commonly held that information security means maintaining the confidentiality, integrity (accuracy) and availability of information.It seems that a whole industry has built up with tools, techniques and consultants to help …
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NAVY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AFLOAT, DATA SECURITY ANALYSIS
… identifies existing weak points in current AM security practices; and develops a smooth process for integrity protection of AM schematics. The recommended implementation spans both user and application system aspects to ensure comprehensive protection. To achieve these results, this thesis …
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Beyond rules: how Large Language Models are redefining cryptographic misuse detection
… on these models for coding assistance, including security-critical tasks. Our work presents a comprehensive comparison between traditional static analysis tools for cryptographic API misuse detection—CryptoGuard, CogniCrypt, and Snyk Code—and the LLMs—GPT, Llama, Claude, and Gemini. Using …
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A formal methods safe harbor
… proofs of software correctness and security, and a policy lever to incentivize adoption of this solution: a safe harbor from FTC unfairness prosecution for manufacturers that use formal methods to guarantee safer, more secure devices. To motivate the potential of formal methods, we …
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SCHOOL SECURITY: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH- SUPERINTENDENTS AND POLICE CHIEFS IN NEW JERSEY
… shootings make front page headlines, school security is of major importance to community members, school superintendents, police chiefs, parents, and students. School district leaders and local law enforcement officials generally work together to ensure the safety of their community’s …
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Towards Data-Driven Internet Routing Security
The Internet infrastructure is critical for the security and reliability of online daily life. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the defacto global routing protocol, was not designed to cope with untrustworthy parties, making BGP vulnerable to misconfigurations and attacks from anywhere in the …
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Security Implications of Web Caching
… to improve performance and scalability, yet the security aspects of this mechanism remain poorly understood. This thesis investigates the security posture of web caches following three incremental steps: web cache detection, exploitation, and uncovering of novel attack primitives. First, we …
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Producing Bodies, Knowledge, and Community in Everyday Civilian Struggle over Surveillance
<p>In a global context of rapidly expanding security practices, those cast as social threats are themselves often most risk of harm. In this dissertation, I develop the concept <em>surveillance threat</em> (ST) to describe the perception or experience of impending or actual harm faced by targeted …
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Addressing the knowledge transfer problem in secure software development through anti-patterns
… gap between software engineering and cybersecurity communities when it comes to addressing reoccurring security problems, known as vulnerabilities. Many vulnerabilities are caused by software errors that occur due to developers’ common mistakes. Insecure software development practices are …
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British Domestic Security Policy and Communist Subversion: 1945-1964
… declassifications of both Cabinet Office and Security Service files over the past five years it is now possible to analyse the subject in greater depth and detail than had been previously feasible. The work is predominantly concerned with four key areas: firstly, why domestic communism …
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Exploring the organisational, social and cultural factors influencing those employee attitudes and behaviours that impact the implementation of an information security culture within Omani organisations
… established that the success of an information security program is heavily dependent upon the actions of the members of organisations that interact with the information security program. An appropriate information security culture is required to effectively influence and control the actions of …
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The Politics of Hospitality: Racism, Security and Migration in Contemporary Greece, 1990-2012
… is absent) in discourses around immigration and security, this thesis discloses the political and ideological operations at work whose critical explanation is articulated around the development of social, political and fantasmatic logics that characterize, sustain or challenge these discourses. …
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