Reinforcement Of Security Research Articles

Christian education of young people is a guarantee of Ukraine's national security in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war

The article explores the crucial role of Christian education for the youth in the context of fortifying Ukraine's national security, particularly during the Russian-Ukrainian war. An analysis of research and publications indicates that Christian education contributes to the development of resilient individuals grounded in high moral values, possessing advanced social responsibility, and capable of self-sacrifice for the benefit of the homeland. An essential component involves instilling mercy, tolerance, and patriotism in the youth. The article's objective is to study the impact of Christian education on the youth on Ukraine's national security and to identify ways to strengthen it in wartime conditions. The article provides an example of the successful implementation of Christian education among student youth in collaboration between the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University and the clergy of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. The experience of organizing meetings between priests and youth, as well as educators, in university and outreach settings aimed at the development and strengthening of spirituality among both students and their mentors, is discussed. The main conclusions of the article underscore the importance of Christian education for the reinforcement of Ukraine's national security.

Decolonizing peace with a gender perspective

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze a decolonized peace with gender perspective. Liberal democracies had consolidated on conquest, slavery, racism, sexism, colonialism, raw material extraction and female exploitation. Additional burdens came from neoliberal globalization with the massive burning of fossil oil, changing the Earth's history from the Holocene toward the Anthropocene. Multiple nexus between the human and environmental system requires an epistemology from the Global South. The paper explores alternative peace paradigms enabling poor and exploited people to overcome the destructive outcomes of patriarchal violence and extractivism. Regionally and locally, they are experimenting with just, safe, equal and sustainable alternatives of free societies.Design/methodology/approachThe nexus approach focuses on system efficiency, internal and external feedbacks and allows decision-making processes with stronger cross-sectoral coordination and multi-level governance. It includes the understanding of the policy agenda and the political actors at different levels, explaining the discrimination of gender from local to global. The analysis establishes complex relations between theory and political actions, due that all actions are inherently mediated by gender. A key focus is a relationship and the outcomes of policies, where communication and collaboration at the local level grant efficient peaceful resource management with gender equity.FindingsAn engendered-sustainable peace approach is culturally decentralized and may offer alternatives to the ongoing destruction process of neoliberal corporatism and violence. Drastic systemic change requires massive changes from bottom-up and top-down before 2030–2050. Global solidarity among all excluded people, especially women and girls, promotes from childhood an engendered-sustainable peace-building process, where positive feedbacks may reduce the tipping points on Earth and among humankind. Engendered-sustainable peace can mitigate the upcoming conflicts and catastrophes, limiting the negative feedbacks from abusive, selfish and destructive corporations. A greater self-regulating sustainable system with a HUGE-security could promote a decolonized, engendered and sustainable peace for everybody.Research limitations/implicationsThe interconnected risks are cascading across different domains, where systemic challenges have intensified conflicts and violence, due to uncertainty, instability and fragility. Cascading effects not only demand prevention for sudden disruptions (hurricanes, floods) but also for slow-ongoing processes (drought, sea-level rise, lack of water availability, etc.), which are equally or more disruptive. Women suffer differently from disasters and are prone to greater impacts on their life and livelihood. An engendered peace is limited by the deep engrained patriarchal system. Only a culture of peace with gender recognition may grant future peace and also the sustainable care of ecosystems.Practical implicationsThe Global South is exploring alternative ways to overcome the present violent and destructive globalization by promoting deep engrained indigenous values of Aymaras’ living well, the shell model of commanding by obeying of the Zapatistas or Bhutan’s Happiness Index. Globally, critical women and men are promoting subsistence agriculture, solidarity or gift economy, where local efforts are restoring the equilibrium between humans and nature. An engendered-sustainable peace is limiting the destructive impacts of the Anthropocene, climate change and ongoing pandemics.Social implicationsAn engendered-sustainable peace is culturally decentralized and offers alternatives to the ongoing destruction process of neoliberal corporatism, climate change and violence. The text explores how to overcome the present hybrid warfare with alternative HUGE security and peace from the bottom-up. Regional reinforcement of food security, safe water management, local jobs and a concordian economy for the most vulnerable may change the present exploitation of nature and humankind. Growing solidarity with people affected by disasters is empowering women and girls and dismantling from the bottom-up, the dominant structures of violence and exploitation.Originality/valueThe military-industrial-scientific corporate complex and the exploitation of women, men and natural resources, based on patriarchy, has produced climate change, poverty and global pandemics with millions of unnecessary deaths and suffering. A doughnut engendered peace looking from the outside and inside of the system of globalization and environmental destruction proposes to overcome the growth addiction by a growth agnostic society. Engendered peace explores alternative and sustainable values that go beyond the dominant technological changes. It includes a culturally, politically and institutionally ingrained model where everybody is a participant, reinforcing an engendered-sustainable peace and security for everybody.

The Trilogy of values Doer and Its Impact in Reinforcement of the Environmental Security

According to what environment witnesses of systematic corruption, intended destruction, and underestimation of life's fundamentals and human existence elements, there is a critical necessity to reconsidering value system that represents the building bas, corner stone, and a safety valve in the history of rising nations in addition to the other legal, social, economical approaches aiming keeping the environment and estimating its resources, and protecting its elements. If these elements utilized in an integrated context and team effort, they will be a protecting factor and a bridge for environmental security, human progress, and health safety. This research divided – according to this introduction – into two sections: the first of them investigated the value concept, its language origin, and its generated meanings that enable of understanding the dimensions of this concept, aims, and functions. The second section displayed the organizing values of the environmental human behavior. The conclusion included the research results, recommendations, and suggestions.

Integral assessment of the level of Ukraine’s economic security: Modeling and economic analysis

The influence of military-political instability at the state security has special consequences and cannot be ignored. That is why the methods of economic security calculations should be adapted to modern conditions. Significant changes in economic, political, social conditions in Ukraine because of the influence of military events cause the necessity of developing approaches to calculations of economic security level. The article aims at analyzing active methods of calculations of economic security level to adapt their indicators to actual economic circumstances in Ukraine and the world. Indicators of the economic security have been composed of budget, money-credit, foreign exchange, debt, known banking financial market security, banking security. Every component of economic security has factors of war influence, which, as a result, correlates with the integral indicator of economic security. The relevance and indispensability of reinforcement of the economy’s competitiveness on security foundations are substantiated. The authors’ methods of calculation of an integral indicator of economic security have been suggested. A taxonomic indicator is used to measure the level of security. Conclusions regarding the preconditions, capacity, and availability of tendencies of economic security in regions of the country have been made. Strategic priorities of the state policy for reinforcement of economic security have been substantiated.

Trusted attestation architecture on an infrastructure-as-a-service

Trusted attestation is the main obstruction preventing large-scale promotion of cloud computing. How to extend a trusted relationship from a single physical node to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform is a problem that must be solved. The IaaS platform provides the Virtual Machine (VM), and the Trusted VM, equipped with a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM), is the foundation of the trusted IaaS platform. We propose a multi-dimensional trusted attestation architecture that can collect and verify trusted attestation information from the computing nodes, and manage the information centrally on a cloud management platform. The architecture verifies the IaaS’s trusted attestation by apprising the VM, Hypervisor, and host Operating System’s (OS) trusted status. The theory and the technology roadmap were introduced, and the key technologies were analyzed. The key technologies include dynamic measurement of the Hypervisor at the process level, the protection of vTPM instances, the reinforcement of Hypervisor security, and the verification of the IaaS trusted attestation. A prototype was deployed to verify the feasibility of the system. The advantages of the prototype system were compared with the Open CIT (Intel Cloud attestation solution). A performance analysis experiment was performed on computing nodes and the results show that the performance loss is within an acceptable range.

Current challenges for regional development: threats to economic security

The article deals with current challenges for regional development and their impact as causes of threats to economic security. Economic security is seen as a complex multilevel system, the formation of which occurs at various levels of economy’s hierarchy: the state level, an economic sector, an industry (economic activity), a region, a business enterprise, a city, a town, a village, a local territorial community, a person. It is determined that a region’s internal and external environment is the key factor of its economic security. The assessment, which was carried out, enables to establish the following characteristics: structural imbalances, a gap between regional investing priorities and determined priorities, a break in the production chain, an asymmetry in technological development of regional industries, expansion of foreign companies on the domestic market, incompatibility between the system of institutions and the aims of social and economic development of regions.The research paper describes the current challenges for regional development, such as deepening of regional differences in creating tensions in regional labour markets; intensification of migration processes; growing differences in the intensity of structural changes; reducing foreign investment; institutional and fiscal decentralization; growing problems in organizing and financing social services; deepening asymmetry in the development of cross-border infrastructure, which requires a system of protection against increasing threats to economic security.A range of methodological approaches to assessing the level of economic security is generalized. A set of quantitative and qualitative indicators is suggested for evaluating the results of security assurance activities at all levels of the hierarchy: a region, a territorial community, a business enterprise, a person.The priority areas of administrative activity designed to prevent threats to economic security are identified. Given the current challenges, these priority areas include: structural reform of the economy, an increasing backbone role of state-owned entrepreneurship, inter-regional and inter-municipal cooperation, modernization of social safety in terms of personal security, strengthening safety of entrepreneurship, reinforcement of security of local communities under conditions of political, administrative, financial, fiscal, economic and environmental decentralization.The main characteristics of each area are pointed out. Further research studies are to be undertaken to empirically examine the results of these measures and identify barriers for institutional assurance of economic security.

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Understanding information security stress: Focusing on the type of information security compliance activity

Organizations are intensifying their information security levels, as information security has become an essential element in business management. However, excessive focus on the mere reinforcement of information security has placed employees under stress. Studies have confirmed that the negative effects of stress include reduced employee productivity. Therefore, it is important to manage employee stress while enforcing information security in an organization. Based on person–environment fit theory, this study examines how employees become stressed, the factors behind information security stress (ISS), and the differences between managerial and technical security-oriented organizations. The results show that work overload and invasion of privacy are information security stressors. Furthermore, work overload has a greater effect on ISS in managerial security-oriented organizations, while invasion of privacy exerts a greater influence on ISS in technical security-oriented organizations. In addition, attitude to compliance with the information security policy mitigates work overload and invasion of privacy. These findings can be used as a basic reference for the establishment of employee stress management measures and the evaluation of information security stress levels.

High-speed TCP flow record extraction using GPUs

Traffic analysis is an essential part of capacity planning, quality of service assurance, and reinforcement of security in current telecommunication networks. Traffic volume increases with network speed and the analysis of large traffic traces is computationally intensive. The paper presents, for the first time ever, a flow extraction software that allows to obtain complex TCP-aware flow records at 4.4 millions of packets per second in a single GPU. Such TCP flow records include number of retransmissions and duplicates per flow, whose calculation is very challenging to obtain at high-speed. Our software significantly increases the processing performance of the recently proposed high-speed sniffers based on commodity hardware and demonstrates the advantages of applying massively parallel processing devices for traffic analysis.

A Study on implement of retirement pension tax system for reinforcement of income security for the elderly

A Study on implement of retirement pension tax system for reinforcement of income security for the elderly

Reinforcement of Information Security Combining Computer Ethics Video Clips, Managed Security Service and ISMS

Reinforcement of Information Security Combining Computer Ethics Video Clips, Managed Security Service and ISMS

The study of selective encryption of motion vector based on the S-Box for the security improvement in the process of video

The Selective Encryption method encrypts the important and requisite parts of data. Since the method does not encrypt the whole of data, the amount of computation is small,which makes it faster and the resources can be used efficiently. The existing selective algorithms have vulnerabilities to the plain text attack and the image restoration attack using the motion vector. They are also vulnerable to the attack in storing and transmitting of the random table data using in encrypt and scramble. In this paper, we propose the selective encryption algorithm of motion vector based on S-Box to remove the vulnerabilities of the existing selective algorithms. The motion vectors generated by the end of motion estimation function of video encoding/decoding xored with S-Box table, are replaced to certain location by using mapping table. The S-Box and mapping table are generated by the secret key through the Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) encryption algorithm. The proposed algorithm enhances the resistance against attacks through the reinforcement of video security, and thus, reduces the vulnerabilities of the existing algorithms such as I-Frame selective encryption and MVEA. Even though the level of security of the proposed algorithm is higher than the bit scrambling algorithms, it has much better security and higher processing rate than others selective algorithms.

Is There a Crime Drop in Western Europe?

Combining data from police statistics and crime victim surveys, this article analyses the evolution of crime in Western Europe from 1988 to 2007. The results show that there is no general drop in crime. Property offences and homicide have been decreasing since the mid 1990s, while violent and drug offences have increased during the period under study. These trends highlight the limits of the explanations to the crime drop in the United States, which are based on the premise of a correlation in the evolution of all offences. The drop in property offences seems related to changes in the socioeconomic situation in Europe as well as to increases in security measures in households, and the reinforcement of private security. The increase in violent offences can be explained by the combination of several factors, including changes in youth’s free time provoked by the development of the Internet, changing demographics, and the rise of episodic heavy alcohol consumption and street gangs.

A privacy-aware architecture for a Web rating system

Net Trust is a fraud-detection application that enhances security while protecting privacy. Net Trust identifies fraudulent Web sites by aggregating individual opinions, user-selected browsing histories, and third-party information. In this paper, we examine the security properties intrinsic to the implementation of the Net Trust ratings system. The ratings system protects against attacks by limiting diffusion of information to those with whom there is an off-line trust relationship. We also propose a rich-client/ thin-server implementation architecture and examine the privacy properties of this architecture. The privacy properties function not only to prevent the compromising of user confidentiality, but also to make the ratings system more robust. By utilizing trusted off-line social networks, Net Trust enhances the security and privacy of the ratings data. The implementation architecture maintains high data availability while empowering browser-history owners with final control over data access. The Net Trust analysis we present illustrates the mutual reinforcement of individual privacy (defined as user control over personal information) and security (defined as the resiliency of data confidentiality and the efficacy of the rating system).

Virtual regionalism, regional structures and regime security in Central Asia

The failures of regionalism and regional structures for cooperation between the five CIS Central Asian states are well studied. However, explanations so far do not convincingly account for the apparent enthusiasm of these states for the macro-regional frameworks of the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This article argues that, as with previous efforts at Central Asian regional self-organization, these broader organizations still largely represent a form of ‘virtual regionalism’. But for the Central Asian states they offer a new and increasingly important function, that of ‘protective integration’. This takes the form of collective political solidarity or ‘bandwagoning’ with Russia (and China in the SCO) against processes and pressures that are perceived as challenging incumbent leaders and their political entourage. A primary motivation for Central Asian leaders' engagement in the EAEC, CSTO and SCO, therefore, is the reinforcement of domestic regime security and the resistance of ‘external’ agendas of good governance or democracy promotion. These goals are concealed behind a discourse that denigrates the imposition of external ‘values’ and continues to give pride of place to national sovereignty. This offers little to overcome the underlying fractures between states in Central Asia.

Stabilization of Upland Agriculture under El Nino-Induced Climate Risk: Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures in Thailand

This study focused on the impacts on vulnerable areas in five provinces and five regions in Thailand. The findings indicated that events caused by El Nino induced weather changes had some impacts on the stabilization of upland agriculture in those vulnerable areas. Broadly speaking, severe drought and a long period of water shortages were experienced by some of the vulnerable areas in Northeast and Central Thailand. Some areas experienced a decrease of corn yield while others experienced complete failure of field corn, sorghum, sugarcane, peanut and mungbean. The impacts of El Nino on the social and economic conditions of Thailand's vulnerable areas were an occurrence of labour mobilization, and weaknesses in purchasing power and loan repayment abilities of the farmers. Although Thailand has no policies and measures for coping directly with events caused by El Nino, there have been existing policies and measures of effectively coping with normal droughts and floods that frequently occur. These effective policies and measures are national risk awareness and warning, reforestation and afforestation, water resource management, crop diversification, mixed farm systems, integrated farming and self-sufficient farming. For the future, policies and mitigation measures should be generated based on the following characteristics. They should be favorable to the increase in the participation rate of any community and communal administrative organization concerned as all for each and each for all. Moreover, they should be favorable to the stability and sustainability of on-farm productivity and the increase of the use of agricultural and forest by-products instead of fossil fuels. In addition, the policies should be favorable to the reinforcement of the national food security and the betterment of physical, biological, economic, and social environments. The stability of bio-diversity, prevention of soil erosion and shallowness of water sources are also focused upon.