Guard (information security)

About: Guard (information security) is a(n) research topic. Over the lifetime, 12145 publication(s) have been published within this topic receiving 69213 citation(s). The topic is also known as: cross domain solution & cross-domain solution.

System and method for maintaining security in a distributed computer network

Abstract: A system and method for maintaining security in a distributed computing environment comprises a policy manager located on a server for managing and distributing a security policy, and an application guard located on a client for managing access to securable components as specified by the security policy. In the preferred embodiment, a global policy specifies access privileges of the user to securable components. The policy manager may then preferably distribute a local client policy based on the global policy to the client. An application guard located on the client then manages access to the securable components as specified by the local policy.

A changing of the guard: executive and director turnover following corporate financial restatements

Abstract: Using event history analysis, we found that CEOs and CFOs of firms filing a material financial restatement were more than twice as likely to exit their firms as their counterparts in a matched samp...

Electrically powered grass trimmer

Abstract: A battery-powered grass trimmer with a novel one-piece support and split motor housing and blade guard construction, wherein the blade guard helps secure the motor housing in assembled relation and the assembled motor housing secures the one-piece support in position.

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The Guard Zone in Wireless Ad hoc Networks

Abstract: In ad hoc networks, it may be helpful to suppress transmissions by nodes around the desired receiver in order to increase the likelihood of successful communication. This paper introduces the concept of a guard zone, defined as the region around each receiver where interfering transmissions are inhibited. Using stochastic geometry, the guard zone size that maximizes the transmission capacity for spread spectrum ad hoc networks is derived - narrowband transmission (spreading gain of unity) is a special case. A large guard zone naturally decreases the interference, but at the cost of inefficient spatial reuse. The derived results provide insight into the design of contention resolution algorithms by quantifying the optimal tradeoff between interference and spatial reuse in terms of the system parameters. A capacity increase relative to random access (ALOHA) in the range of 2 - 100 fold is demonstrated through an optimal guard zone; the capacity increase depending primarily on the required outage probability, as higher required QoS increasingly rewards scheduling. Compared to the ubiquitous carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) which essentially implements a guard zone around the transmitter rather than the receiver - we observe a capacity increase on the order of 30 - 100%