Government perspective Several countries have recognised the importance of the Internet of Things for future economic growth and sustainability. From 2006 onwards the European Commission launched public consultations and stimulated widely open discussions on RFID and the Internet of Things, especially regarding critical policy issues such as governance, privacy, and resilience/security. These initiatives reached their … Read more
WHY IS IT SECURITY NECESSARY? Most companies use electronic information extensively to support their daily business processes. Data is stored on customers, products, contracts, financial results, accounting, etc. If this electronic information were to become available to competitors or to become corrupted, false or disappear, what would happen? What would the consequences be? Could the … Read more
SECURITY AND ITS NEED What needs to be protected, against whom and how? Security is the protection of information, systems and services against disasters, mistakes and manipulation so that the likelihood and impactof security incidents are minimized. A threat is a danger which could affect the security (confidentiality, integrity, availability) of assets, leading to a … Read more
Origin of the concept of “Internet of Things” MIT Auto-ID Center The phrase “Internet of Things” was coined some 20 years ago by the founders of the original MIT Auto-ID Center, with special mention to Kevin Ashton in 1999 2 and David L. Brock in 2001 3 . The term “Auto-ID” refers to any broad … Read more
INFORMATION SECURITY “ To catch a thief, to prevent from theft, think like a thief”. The idea is that if as a security professional you don ̳t know what threats you are facing from crackers/hackers, you will never be able to build an efficient security system. In fact many a times in movies you would … Read more
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SECURITY Two hundred years ago, you probably would have made a living in agriculture. One hundred years ago, you most likely would have worked in a factory. Today, we live in the Information Age and almost everyone has a job somehow connected to information stored in digital form on a network. During … Read more
Voicemail Before email and instant messaging became ubiquitous, voicemail was a popular method of electronic messaging. Even though most people prefer text-based messaging systems, voicemail remains an essential component of any PBX. Comedian Mail One of the most popular (or, arguably, unpopular) features of any modern telephone system is voicemail. Asterisk has a reasonably flexible … Read more
Building an Interactive Dialplan The dialplan we just built was static; it will always perform the same actions on every call. Many dialplans will also need logic to perform different actions based on inputfrom the user, so let’s take a look at that now. The Goto(), Background(), and WaitExten() Applications As its name implies, the … Read more
Basic Task List Introduction Installation Prepping The Database Database Migrations Eloquent Models Routing Stubbing The Routes Displaying A View Building Layouts & Views Defining The Layout Defining The Child View Adding Tasks Validation Creating The Task Displaying Existing Tasks Deleting Tasks Adding The Delete Button Deleting The Task Introduction This quickstart guide provides a basic … Read more
Install Composer Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. First, download a copy of the composer.phar. Once you have the PHAR archive, you can either keep it in your local project directory or move to usr/local/bin to use it globally on your system. On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows installer. Install Laravel Via … Read more