Muhammad Naveed Khurshid – Homepage
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Here, I will share my thoughts and views about the Security Engineering
This writing is in response to and continuation of Prof. Ross Anderson’s book’s first chapter topic – i.e. Example of MilitaryBase [1].The security of the Naval base is also as important as the security of other military bases. However, one needs to investigate it from the perspective of a Naval war strategist. Imagine a war […]
In year 2011, after coming from the United Kingdom I submitted a PHD Proposal to the Security Group of Cambridge University (to Dr. Steven J. Murdoch) which was rejected by him (Reason: not known. But probably my PHD research proposal was not well written in the eyes of Dr. Steven J. Murdoch). Dr. Murdoch [7] […]
Quite recently, I submitted an assignment on “Shadow IT”. I want to share some of its data with the blog readers. According to Forcepoint.com [1], “Shadow IT is the use of information technology systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT department approval”. E.g. BYOD, use of cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, One […]
Last week, I read the autobiography of Edward Snowden – Permanent Record. I would like to mention here that I have already watched Edward Snowden’s movie on Netflix a few years back. I also would like to mention here that there is a difference between watching the movie and reading the book. I have some […]
Yesterday, while surfing internet and searching for people who have contributed in the area of Cyber Security, I have come to know about Cambridge University’s Professor Dr. Frank Stajano. His official university home page can be found here. Professor Frank Stajano also runs a youtube channel, where he post knowledgeable material/things. I also come to […]
The instructor (Sir Bariq Wajahat) of the CEH v10 course at NIE has told me about Rafay Baloch, a young information security expert and evangelist. He has written a book with the title, “Ethical Hacking And Pentesting Book”. He has also attended Bahria University like me. I have downloaded his book and I am going […]
As per Ethicalhackx‘s lecture notes and slides, the following are the elements of information security. Confidentiality Integrity Availability Authenticity Non-Repudiation I am not going in details of them. However, I want to briefly define them as mentioned in page 6 of lecture notes and slides. Confidentiality means “Authorized to have access“. Integrity means “Trustworthiness of […]
To understand what Information Security is all about, one needs to understand the following definition of Information Security. “Information Security ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability” [1]. Now that the reader of this blog has understood the basic definition, time to go in details what do Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability mean. Confidentiality: We want to […]
A few weeks ago, I took the initiative to dive deeply to become a Certified Ethical Hacker. However, I knew that I was not in a position to pass the exam of CEH v10 without reading and understanding the theory and practice behind it. So I decided to get enrolled in a course which teaches […]
During education at the school, college and universities, my majors were in the field of Science/Computing/IT/Engineering. Specifically, at the University of Oxford, I attended a course with the title of Security Principles which was taught by Professor. Andrew Martin. For prestudy, I read the first few chapters of a book with the title of Security […]