There are various service models each with its own characteristics. In this session I'll provide an overview of the multicast security requirements for commercial-grade application usage. I will survey the relevancy of existing security and discuss some of the approaches derived from the current models on cable and satellite television. The advent of innovative Internet technologies has opened up new frontiers along with battlefields against malicious vandal programs that try to wreak havoc and jeopardize our dependence on the information superhighway. Unlike viruses, vandal applications are Internet-aware and they do not linger in the users' computer in order to replicate because they use the Internet as their replication conduit.
Vandals can replicate on the Internet, almost at the speed of light.
Therefore there is no time for reactive solutions, such as virus definition updates. Proactive Content Security means identifying all possible points of entry and securing them by inspecting all known threats, enforcing strict corporate content security policies and weeding out the unknown. This paper will investigate ways to establish Proactive Content Security Policies for various Internet activities and propose effective means to maintain and manage such policies on an enterprise-wide scale. Data Authentication at Gigabits per Second Speeds Hugo Krawczyk, Technion The physically-remote nature of electronic communications is changing the ways we verify the authenticity of things. The traditional use of human senses for determining authenticity is not available anymore in the new electronic medium.