The Many Faces of Data Vulnerability

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Information is a valuable commodity, and new security methods must be used to protect it, whether it is in a computer or stored on paper or magnetic tapes. Problems with computer security include the lack of security of commercial operating systems and the vulnerability of smaller and remote computers to tampering that the mainframe could resist. SEI International's Management and Economics Group has developed a theory of information security that breaks down into the functions of avoidance, deterrence, prevention, detection, recovery, and correction. A diagram illustrates the potential threats and how the security measures fight them.

Data security, Systems and data security software, Security, Theft of Information, Systems/Data Security Software

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Many consortiums start to show progress

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Many major software initiatives and consortiums worldwide showed progress during 1986, focusing on applying advanced programming, software measurement, and artificial intelligence tools. The software engineering community is recognizing and addressing the gap between new hardware capabilities and effective software as a system development problem, rather than a software problem.

Software engineering, Business conditions, Trends, Review of Past Year

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Elihu Thompson: Man of Many Facets

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Elihu Thomson was an inventor, industrialist, engineering and research director, and president of MIT in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His inventions led to quick development of alternating current distribution systems. Thomson was director of engineering at General Electric and helped create the first electric light systems.

Inventions, History, Technology, Biographies, Electrical engineering, Biography, Thomson, Elihu

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