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/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing 1 The cloud model is composed of 5 essential characteristics (Ondemand self-services; Broad network access; Resource pooling; Rapid ...
Users have different preferences on using Internet browsers. Preferences may vary from place to place and change over time. We share with you the usage statistics collected in four scenarios. (1) Browser preferences of users accessing the City University Homepage The bar chart below depicts the ...
In today’s office environment, we often share information like reports, presentations and minutes among colleagues. We have been taught how to connect to the departmental share drive through a network drive letter to store and access files in a traditional file folder structure. This works quite ...
Microsoft launched its latest version of operating system (OS), Windows 10, in July 2015. In the article on “Windows 10 at First Glimpse” ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 85 - September 2015), some of the key new features in Windows 10 were highlighted, and the plan to release it first on centrally ...
A new upgrade of the campus network had already been started with Phase I (replace/upgrade the network switches at the core and distribution layers) being completed in 2015. The existing network design adopted a traditional 3-tier hierarchical model comprising the core, distribution and access ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The term APT was first used by U.S. Air Force back in 2006 to facilitate discussion about a set intrusion activities with specific characteristics. These days, APT is often used ...
As announced by Microsoft, only the newest version of Internet Explorer (IE) will be supported from 12 January 2016. The older versions of IE will no longer be supported meaning that there will be no more security update for these browser versions thereafter, and any computer running them will ...
Phishing email spreads over the Internet from time to time. You may have received suspicious email telling you that your computer account has problems/will expire/has exceeded quota/etc. and requires you to verify your identity by clicking on a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to a web page, and then ...
In the IT world, software applications have an associated life cycle - newer versions of applications with new or enhanced features are often released after a certain period of time to replace the older versions. As Microsoft Office 2013 had been released for more than three years, Microsoft ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ There is a massive upsurge of mobile devices in the consumer market. Corporations are also demanding their employees to have instant connectivity to their working environment ...