Security policies by design in NoSQL document databases

The main objective of this study is to explain managing complexity through the resource-based view as a strategy for the implementation of food security policy. Because the study so far still focused on the form, type, and its dimensions. The study uses a qualitative design and case study strategy to explain the implementation of food security policy. Techniques of data collection used were observation, depth-interviews, and documentation. Based on the matching patterns and time series analysis, managing the complexity of resource sharing in the implementation of food security policy is not effective. This happens because the resources owned by them are not integrated through the governance network. Besides, the governance network organization does not have a clear vision, so they also behave in a changing manner and controlling their resources. This is shown by each government agency controlling the funds for this program and the extension workers do not have the necessary expertise in the food diversification, rice, and animal food programs. Therefore, resource sharing strategies that have value, rareness, imperfect imitability, and organization can achieve successful implementation of this policy.

Modern SoC designs contain a large number of sensitive assets that must be protected from unauthorized access. Authentication mechanisms which control the access to such assets are governed by complex security policies. The security policies affect multiple design blocks and may involve subtle interactions among hardware, firmware, OS kernel, and applications. The implementation of security policies in an SoC design, often referred to as its security architecture, is a subtle composition of coordinating design modules distributed across the different IPs. Toward this direction, this paper gives an overview of SoC security architectures in modern SoC designs and provides a glimpse of their implementation, as well as their design complexities and functional shortcomings. Design of security architectures involves a complex interplay of requirements from functionality, power, security, and validation. We also outline some of the research needs in the area for developing robust, trustworthy SoC designs.

Trust represents a fundamental pillar of contemporary security policy, influencing decision-making processes, institutional stability, and the effectiveness of security measures at both national and international levels. This article explores trust as a key precondition for the formulation and implementation of security policy, emphasizing its role in relations between states, within security institutions, and between public authorities and society. The analysis focuses on trust as a multidimensional concept encompassing political legitimacy, transparency, accountability, and the credibility of security actors. Particular attention is paid to the consequences of declining trust, including increased social polarization, weakened resilience of democratic systems, and reduced effectiveness of collective security arrangements. The article argues that building and maintaining trust is not merely a normative objective, but a strategic necessity for ensuring long-term security and stability in an increasingly complex and uncertain security environment.Through comparative analysis of selected European states (Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, France, and Estonia), the paper identifies critical determinants of trust, including transparency, institutional neutrality, crisis communication, and historical path-dependence. The findings demonstrate that trust acts as both an input to and an output of security policy, reinforcing legitimacy through reciprocity between citizens and the state.The article concludes that sustained trust-building must be recognized as a strategic dimension of security governance. Trust-based security strengthens societal resilience, mitigates polarization, and enhances adaptive capacity in hybrid threat environments.

This article examines the Western and Eastern parts of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages for finding the evidence of implementation of food security policy therein. The object of this work is the cultural peculiarities and socioeconomic relations in the society, which determine and promote the process of implementation of food security policy. The subject of this work is the theoretical, practical and normative sources on ensuring food stability of the state, normative acts of the government institutions reinforced by the results of archaeological explorations. The author is one of the first within the Russian and foreign literature to demonstrate the facts that testify to the implementation of food security policy in the Middle Ages. Based on the historical example of France under the Capetian dynasty, it is demonstrated that the maintenance of food sustainability in the “mansion state” was implemented by the following means: restrictions on the goods for export, collection of special transit fees, establishment of the customs institutions. The success of the Byzantine food security policy was guaranteed by creating the large grain depots during the reign of Julian the Apostate; establishing the institutions that were accountable to the authorities and controlled the consistent procurement of essential food products; the order of Anastasios II on expulsion from the city of anyone who did not provide themselves with a yearly supply of food; consolidating trade regulations and distribution restriction in the in the “Book of the Prefect”.

Modern SoC designs incorporate several security policies to protect sensitive assets from unauthorized access. The policies affect multiple design blocks, and may involve subtle interactions between hardware, firmware, and software. This makes it difficult for SoC designers to implement these policies, and system validators to ensure adherence. Associated problems include complexity in upgrading these policies, IP reuse for systems targeted for markets with differing security requirement, and consequent increase in design time and time-to-market. In this paper, we address this important problem by developing a generic, flexible architectural framework for implementing arbitrary security policies in SoC designs. Our architecture has several distinctive features: (1) it relies on a dedicated, centralized, firmware-upgradable plug-and-play IP block that can implement diverse security policies; (2) it interfaces with individual IP blocks through their “security wrapper”, which exploits and extends test/debug wrappers; (3) it implements a security policy as firmware code following existing security policy languages; (4) it can implement any security policy as long as relevant observable and controllable signals from the constituent IPs are accessible through the security wrappers; and (5) it realizes a low-overhead communication link between security wrappers of IP blocks and the centralized, dedicated controller. The approach builds on and extends the recent work on developing a centralized infrastructure IP for SoC security, referred to as IIPS, that interface with IP blocks using their boundary scan based wrappers. While this architecture is generic and independent of security policy types, we provide case studies with several common policies to show the flexibility and extendibility of the architecture. We also evaluate its viability in terms of overhead in area and power.

Despite their importance to the implementation of security and defence policy, less dramatic and more incremental events remain relatively overlooked in the study of security policymaking. Framing these as mid-range instances of security policymaking and applying a norm-dynamics framework, this article addresses that gap. It aims to elucidate how strategic culture, institutionalized norms, and discursive strategies interact to shape this layer of policymaking, drawing on an analysis of the Swedish parliament’s ratification of NATO’s Partnership for Peace programme in 1994 and the Host Nation Support agreement in 2016. The study shows how underlying mechanics in norm dynamics continue to be instrumental for policy transformation in the absence of crisis and war. The findings suggest that institutional inertia rooted in enduring norms acts as a brake on more radical security policy shifts, even when a nation’s security landscape is in flux. The study offers insights relevant for the analysis of the subtler norm dynamics in other parliamentary democracies facing similar mid-range security policy questions. Studying these more modest, incremental forms of policymaking is valuable in a context of shifting power alliances and normative uncertainty in global politics.

Addressing the policy challenges and opportunities of “Big data”

Taking a byte out of big data

Information has become organizations’ most valuable asset, thus being a potential target to threats intending to explore their vulnerabilities and cause considerable damage. Therefore, there is a need to implement policies regarding information systems security (ISS) in an attempt to reduce the chances of fraud or information loss. Thus, it is important to find the critical success factors to the implementation of a security policy as well as to assess the level of importance of each one of them. This paper contributes to the identification of such factors by presenting the results of a survey regarding information systems security policies in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). We discuss the results in the light of a literature framework and identify future works aiming to enhance information security in organizations.

The theoretical foundations of the national security strategy are substantiated to establish the need to introduce into the educational process the professional training of future specialists - the definitions of «strategy», «strategic planning and forecasting» of national security. The concept of «strategy» by categories of philosophical-fundamental vision and technological-semantic representation of perspective management of future development of future forecasting and planning scenarios under the guidance of specialists with professional security competencies is considered as a process of regulated sequence of planning strategies to ensure effective security policy goals. Aspects of strategic forecasting are singled out - prediction, screening of information data of system analysis of the state and perspective development with assessment of risks and dangers in the field of national security. The definition of «strategic planning» as a function of national security management in the implementation of security policy provides for the definition of strategic goals, objectives and objectives in the system of public administration measures to protect national sovereignty.Key words: strategy, strategic planning, strategic forecasting, national security, professional training, future professionals.

On the implementation of security policies with adaptative encryption

Despite increasing investment in information security and its strategic role in today’s business success, effective implementation of information security strategies still remains one of the top challenges facing global organizations. This study investigated Information Security Policy compliance of staff members of a municipality in South Africa. Factors such as information security policy, security policy strategic planning, policy implementation and compliance were considered. A questionnaire was distributed to 80 staff members from different sections in this municipality and a response rate of 100% was achieved. The study findings showed that the majority of employees are largely in support of the municipality’s efforts to develop and implement a security policy framework. They also concur that compliance to security policy safeguards and prevents intrusion information, theft and "denial of service". Among other issues, it is recommended that more training and awareness campaigns should be done to all employees in order to improve security of information in this municipality. The study results can be limited by the small number of the population as indicated that the sample was equal to the population (N=n).

Continued high profile security breaches indicate that Information Systems Security remains a significant problem within organizations. The authors argue that one of the major contributors to this ongoing problem is a disconnect between security policy formulation and implementation. This disconnect can lead to a failure of policy. This paper is aimed at understanding the disconnect by analyzing the meanings that are attributed to policy formulation and implementation by the stakeholders involved in the process. A case study was carried out and a “snapshot in time” of the lifecycle of IS Security Policy formulation at the organization under study demonstrated that a disconnect is evident between these two sides of security policy.

Security policy is a main mechanism of information security management. While there are a lot of security-related standards and guidelines which specify requirements for high-level security policies, implementation of network security policy still depends on interfaces provided by network security systems (NSS). Obviously, diversity of policy representation languages affects efficiency of policy deployment process. The paper proposes a concept of unification of policy rules for NSSs as a solution for the problem. The idea is based on a formal language which makes it possible to formalize network security policies independently of particular NSSs.

The Delhi and NCR healthcare systems are rapidly registering electronic health records, diagnostic information available electronically. Furthermore, clinical analysis is rapidly advancing-large quantities of information are examined and new insights are part of the analysis of this technology-experienced as Big Data. It provides tools for storing, managing, studying, and assimilating large amounts of robust, structured and unstructured data generated by existing medical organizations. Recently, data analysis data have been used to help provide care and diagnose disease. In the current era, systems need connected devices, people, time, places and networks that are fully integrated on the Internet (IoT). The Internet has become new in developing health monitoring systems. Diabetes is defined as a group of metabolic disorders affecting human health worldwide. Extensive research (diagnosis, path physiology, treatment, etc.) produces a great deal of data on all aspects of diabetes. The main purpose of this chapter is to provide a detailed analysis of healthcare using large amounts of data and analysis. From the Hospitals of Delhi and NCR, sample of 30 subjects has been collected in random fashion who has been suffering from Diabetes from their Health Insurance Providers without disclosing any Personal Information (PI) or Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) by Law. The present study aimed to analyze diabetes with the latest IoT and Big Data analysis techniques and it’s correlation with stress (TTH) on human health. Authors have tried to include age, gender & insulin factor and its correlation with diabetes. Overall, In conclusion, TTH cases increasing with age in case of males and not following the pattern of diabetes variation with age while in case of female TTH pattern variation is same as diabetes i.e. increasing trend up to age of 60 then decreasing.