/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ In view of a numerous benefits of virtualisation, virtualisation technology has recently gained popularity in the marketplace. According to Gartner, percentage of workloads ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Virtualisation is the separation of resource or request for a service from the underlying physical delivery of the service. It can dramatically improve the efficiency and ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code injection attacks pose massive threats to the IT environment within universities. They could allow hackers to compromise universities' network, access and destroy their data ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code injection attacks typically occur when inputs has not been adequately validated before execution. The basic principle is to provide some form of input with additional ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Websites and web applications are often used by universities for public access and provide required services to their end-users, including staff and students, round-the-clock (e.g ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Code Injection is a type of exploitation caused by processing invalid data input. The concept of injection attacks is to introduce (or "inject") malicious code into a program so ...

According to our past experience, more than 50% of incoming emails are possibly spam in nature. These emails not only waste our system resources, but also cause delay of normal email delivery. Users would be annoyed, and even worse, they have to take security risk when opening the message or the ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ SaaS provides the most integrated functionality built directly into the offering, with the least customised extensibility, and a relatively high level of integrated security ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The innovation of cloud computing has changed the way IT operations are deployed in various organisations around the world, including universities. Its benefits in cost saving ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ PaaS is intended to enable developers to build their own applications on top of the platform supported by cloud service providers. As a result, it tends to be more extensible than ...