 | | Send your RSS Feed Back to SchoolBenefit to content providers:
By having your RSS Feeds graded and certified content providers can improve the probability that readers will subscribe to their RSS Feed. Like Search Engine Optimization (SEO), RSS grading helps you to identify what qualities readers are looking for and helps to supply RSS Feeds that meet that criteria. Readers are very finicky. Too many words and you might lose them, too few and they might not understand. By having your Feeds graded and optimizing them to the highest grade you are optimizing your chances of having your RSS Feed and the content behind it read and subscribed to. By having your Feed certified you are giving the readers of your Feeds a standardized, easy-to-understand system to show how your Feed is of the highest quality.
Benefit to content readers:
Graded and certified Feeds are higher quality Feeds, meeting the many factors that are critical to you, the reader. Factors like how recent was the Feed published, how many words and items are in the Feed. Using a standardized grading system allows users to identify and subscribe to Feeds from across the Internet. Grading helps the reader to see through the mounds of RSS Feeds that either have too much content or too little. Quickly skip out-of-date and 'junk' RSS Feeds and find quality content!
The life expectancy of a grade:
RSS Feeds are dynamic, changing frequently as the world around us changes. How can you grade a Feed that will change in the near future? This does make it more difficult to grade, but not impossible. Given that most RSS Feeds are created through the use of dynamic tools, the general constraints of the Feed remains the same. If a blog outputs the entire body of an article as the description, it will likely do this every time the Feed is generated. If you create your RSS Feed with a simple title like "My Blog" then very likely every time the RSS Feed is generated the title will not be very useful. On the other hand, if you generate an RSS Feed that has enough detail to catch the reader but not so much to overwhelm them, the tool that is creating the RSS Feed is of high quality and will produce high quality Feeds. |
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| Information Security: Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
by Mark Stamp |  | As businesses and consumers become more dependent on complex multinational information systems, the need to understand and devise sound information security systems has never been greater. This title takes a practical approach to information security by focusing on real-world examples. While not sidestepping the theory, the emphasis is on developing the skills and knowledge that security and information technology students and professionals need to face their challenges.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (October 28, 2005)
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Paperback: 416 pages | About the Book:
The book is organized around four major themes:- Cryptography: classic cryptosystems, symmetric key cryptography, public key cryptography, hash functions, random numbers, information hiding, and cryptanalysis
- Access control: authentication and authorization, password-based security, ACLs and capabilities, multilevel and multilateral security, covert channels and inference control, BLP and Biba's models, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems
- Protocols: simple authentication protocols, session keys, perfect forward secrecy, timestamps, SSL, IPSec, Kerberos, and GSM
- Software: flaws and malware, buffer overflows, viruses and worms, software reverse engineering, digital rights management, secure software development, and operating systems security
Additional features include numerous figures and tables to illustrate and clarify complex topics, as well as problems-ranging from basic to challenging-to help readers apply their newly developed skills. A solutions manual and a set of classroom-tested PowerPoint(r) slides will assist instructors in their course development. Students and professors in information technology, computer science, and engineering, and professionals working in the field will find this reference most useful to solve their information security issues.
An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department. | About the Author:
MARK STAMP, PHD, is Professor of Computer Science, San Jose State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate-level information security courses. In addition to his experience gained in private industry and academia, Dr. Stamp has seven years' experience working as a cryptanalyst at the U.S. National Security Agency. | Book Reviews:
"Information Security: Principles and Practice presents information security concepts and practices insightfully in an easily comprehensible style. Although primarily intended as a college course resource, this book will appeal also to many security professionals. Highly recommended." (CHOICE, April 2006)
"The book is well suited for beginners, and contains enough introductory material on a variety of topics." (Computing Reviews.com, January 9, 2006) |
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