Cybersecurity Project

CERT Spotlight: Mitigating Threats from Within

http://www.cert.org/

Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, 4th Edition

CERT advisories have become a core component of US-CERT's Technical Cyber Security Alerts

Secure systems

Our research in cyber security engineering involves analyzing how susceptible systems are to sophisticated attacks and proposing better designs for such systems. We also develop techniques that enable us to predict future threats to the internet. The results of our research contribute to our work with network situational awareness. As part of this "operational" component, we are developing tools and techniques that will improve the ability for network administrators to identify what is happening on their networks. These tools and techniques include engineering solutions and research approaches for analyzing broad network activity. The goal is to quantitatively characterize threats and targeted intruder activity.

UC Berkley Library

The University of California, Berkeley's 32 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the fourth largest university library by number of volumes in the United States, surpassed only by the libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] As of 2006, Berkeley's library system contains over 10 million volumes and maintains over 70,000 serial titles.[2] The libraries together cover over 12 acres (49,000 m2) of land and compose one of the largest library complexes in the world.[3] In 2003, the Association of Research Libraries ranked it as the top public and third overall university library in North America based on various statistical measures of quality.[4]

Objective or Subjective AND Quantitative or Qualitative

Qualitative Research is primarily subjective in approach as it seeks to understand human behavior and reasons that govern such behavior. Researchers have the tendency to become subjectively immersed in the subject matter in this type of research method.

Read more: Quantitative and Qualitative Research - Objective or Subjective?

A clear vision for the future of your library

A clear vision for the future of your library
The correlation between therapy and Library 2.0 really makes sense!!!

Spicynodes!

I found this really cool tool for diagramming concepts!
I just found out that I can import and export spicynode files as .xml files!! Yippie!!
From Author's guide at Spicynodes
Creating a compelling nodemap isn’t difficult, but it does challenge writers to think and express themselves in new ways.

Welcome to the pantry.

SpicyNodes opens up new methods of organizing information. In order to create a powerful nodemap, consider that you are working in what is essentially three-dimensional space. In other words, readers do not have to proceed through a conventionally single, linear path of information flow. Instead, they are able to make their own choices and follow the paths of information that pique their interest.

Following the recipe.

This guide offers a definitive walkthrough of how to develop a nodemap, from fundamental concepts of appropriately preparing your information content for a SpicyNodes implementation, to demonstrating how you can use the SpicyNodes authoring interface to create and build your nodemap.

Thinking in Nodes

When presenting information in exploratory form, it’s best to break the information down into categories, sub-categories, and interconnections — like a Table of Contents, or branches of a tree. Even if you are trying to tell a story of sequential events, it is still possible to break the story down into units — similar to a conventional book, which has as chapters and sub-headings. Websites present a "3D space" to spread out your information, whereby users not only select from web pages that differentiate information from a central "homepage," but also go into the web site to explore embedded pages linked through other pages.

Shortcuts in the kitchen.

The craft of writing node copy is slightly different than that of writing magazine or news articles, web copy, press releases, or technical material. With traditional forms of writing, you have a high word count in which to explain a concept or expound upon a theory. When writing node copy, you want to keep it short and to the point – from a few words to several sentences. The art of writing node titles is akin to writing titles and subheads for other media, while writing node copy is similar to writing captions or sidebars.
This is the concept of a nodemap — breaking your information down into small, interconnecting units, called nodes. You can either implement a SpicyNodes nodemap to represent a structure of interconnected web pages, or as a single, interactive visualization experience.

Contrasting tastes and textures.

There are many different types of nodemaps; they can lead readers to the specific information they seek, but can also invite readers to browse and discover new information. Serving as a directory, nodes can act like a table of contents or a collapsible menu by breaking a topic into increasingly smaller pieces and swiftly leading the reader to the information he or she is seeking. When serving information content, a nodemap becomes more like a museum exhibit, inviting the reader to delve more deeply into topics of interest. Nodemaps often serve both purposes, and contain nodes that are like a directory by forming links, and nodes that are like an exhibit by displaying abstract information.
In all cases, the center node acts as a “home base." From the center, the visitor clicks on nodes to travel into the nodemap, but always has the option to return to where he or she started.

Start with the finest ingredients

A useful and engaging nodemap begins with a single ingredient: information. Whether you are creating morsels from the copy on an existing web site, using nodemaps as a vehicle for creative expression, or researching a topic and compiling information from a variety of sources, start by having your information close at hand. This makes it exponentially easier to organize your information into a structure appropriate to the purpose, and allows you to prepare your nodemap content and structure before creating a nodemap within the SpicyNodes interface.