Articles & White Papers
Addressing the Inconsistency in Software Security Requirements
Author: Shakeel Ali
Date: 09 May 2010
Description: Maintaining security as an integral part of software development process is a challenging task. There are number of issues that need to be addressed, such as, gathering and validating security functions against the technical design, tailoring security requirements on system specific risk factors and an appropriate reinforcement of threat modeling. These all concerns and recommendations are available in this article.
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Information Security Trends & Challenges 2010
Author: Shakeel Ali
Date: 20 Feb 2010
Description: Understanding the threat landscape through geographic penetration by multiple attack vectors can provide useful data. Moreover, highlighting the facts and figures published by industry known research organizations may draw absolute statistics from past incidents. Additionally, a broad view of the current IT Security market together will pose incredible challenges for 2010.
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Reversing Malware: A detection intelligence with in-depth security analysis
Author: Dinesh Theerthagiri
Supervisor: Shakeel Ali
Date: 04 Jan 2010
Description: The main objective of this research paper is to understand the complexity of today's malware and
its automated procedures that break the e-Banking security infrastructure. The report will disclose
a research methodology fortified by anti-malware kit to detect, identify and monitor the malicious
piece of code. Exercise for various detection techniques and protection schemes has been addressed to
thwart financial system from malware risk. Additionally, the case study of SilentBanker trojan
has been covered to identify and uncover its malicious characteristics through behavioral analysis.
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Law In Cyberspace: Addressing the inadequacies of Computer Misuse Act (CMA) 1990
Author: Shakeel Ali
Date: 26 Sep 2009
Description: This paper will brief some of the deficiencies identified in a law governing security in the cyberspace. Originally written in 2006 and has been revised in 2009 for official publication. It will underline the gaps between technological advances and the efficiencies of current legislative framework to deal with cybercrime.
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Reversing The Malware: A Manual and Automated Detection Approach
Author: Shakeel Ali
Date: 24 Sep 2009
Description: The aim of this article is to present methodology, tools and techniques which can be used to crack the malware activity. Several known malwares (2008-2009) are highlighted with their manual and automated analysis results. Furthermore, number of challenges for the future anti-malware solution has been addressed and several protection schemes are underlined.
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DDoS Attacks Classification: A Visual Guide for Security Vendors
Author: Shakeel Ali
Date: 14 July 2009
Description: A very comprehensive illustrated guide to Denial of service attacks and their classification. Specially targeted for the security professionals working in the industry for a quick reference purposes.
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