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Muralto and RS AV Solutions join forces to create a unique interior design experience in sight and sound

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London (PRWEB UK) 6 August 2011

Muralto UK’s showroom in Seymour Place, London W1 showcases their full range of gorgeous, functional furniture for dining, living and bedrooms. They also offer a wide selection of complementary high quality accessories, including art, lighting, mirrors and rugs, sourced from a number of carefully selected local and international partners.

RS AV Solutions has partnered with Muralto, fellow BIID industry partner, to introduce groundbreaking new elements of sight and sound to the Central London showroom in the shape of the latest Meridian home entertainment systems.

Muralto UK owner Jane Buckley is very proud of this exciting new addition to their range: “The simple but nearly sculptural appearance of the Meridian products fits perfectly with our own interior design principles and product offerings, and the quality of sound they produce is truly incredible too!”

In Muralto’s ground floor showroom, RS AV Solutions have installed the world renowned Digital Media System – Meridian Sooloos. The Control 15 - a 17 inch touchscreen interface can store up to 1000 CD’s in lossless form. Connected to the Control 15 is a gorgeous pair of Meridian DSP5200 Loudspeakers in Ivory White, part of the Meridian Select colour range. Connected to the Control 15 via the Muralto network is one of Meridian’s latest product, the Media Core 200, which can also store up to 1000 CD’s in lossless form. This is connected via Meridian’s Audio Core 200 to a stunning pair of white DSP3200 Loudspeakers. To “see” and “hear” is to believe these stunning pieces of British Craftsmanship.

Showed downstairs and complementing the unique Muralto “Diva” black leather modular suite, the Meridian M80 - a high-performance compact entertainment system with a luxury hand-tooled leather end, and combines incredible audio quality with supreme versatility.

By experiencing the range of Meridian products in this incredible new location, customers can see and hear for themselves how well they fit into any modern living space, enhancing the overall contemporary look and feel. Customers can even slot their own iPod into the i80 iPod dock to experience their own favourite tracks like they’ve never heard them before.

Meridian’s products are already a firm favourite with interior designers since they can be incorporated seamlessly into the design of the room they’re making. Now, with these products on show in Muralto’s W1 location, they can also invite their clients along to see and hear the latest in home entertainment solutions.

“We’re proud to be industry partners of BIID, and we’re excited for this new collaboration with Muralto UK,” said Robert Sullivan, RS AV Solutions Managing Director. “Muralto’s W1 showroom is the perfect environment to showcase the gorgeous looks and fantastic sound and vision quality of the Meridian range,” he added.

Muralto’s stunning modern interior design solutions and the latest Meridian home entertainment systems, installed by RS AV Solutions, are on show now at: Muralto, 6 Seymour Place, Portman Village, London W1H 7NA. Tel: (0207) 724 3750. Email: info(at)muralto(dot)co(dot)uk. Showroom opening hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and by appointment at weekends.

Notes to Editors:
About Muralto
Swiss-born designer Rene Haas is one of the foremost contemporary furniture designers and manufacturers in South Africa. Established by Rene in 1968, Muralto ZA is known for its passion for excellence in product design, manufacture and customer service and is focused on delivering a first class customer experience before, during and after every sale. Muralto UK, with its showroom in central London, is able to offer private clients, interior designers and architects a full range of Muralto design solutions. In addition to the provision of an extensive range of products and a fully bespoke design service, Muralto also provide a selection of high quality accessories including art, lighting, mirrors and rugs - all of which are sourced from a number of local and international partners. Muralto UK is an (Associate) Industry Partner member of the British Institute of Interior Design. Within this partnership the company encourages young designers, helping to cultivate their talents and stimulate the introduction of new and innovative designs. For more information please contact: Pollyanna Midwood, Muralto, 6 Seymour Place, Portman Village, London W1H 7NA. Website: http://www.muralto.co.uk. Email: info(at)muralto(dot)co(dot)uk. Tel: (0207) 724 3750.
About RS AV Solutions

RS AV Solutions work with private clients looking for smarter homes and offices, and also a wide range of business clients including building contractors, developers, architects, interior designers and electricians. RS AV Solutions have teamed up with selected key suppliers, giving them access to the best products in this specialist market, including Meridian (for high quality audio and visual equipment) Control 4 and Crestron (for home automation operating systems), and Rako (for state-of-the-art lighting solutions). RS AV Solutions are also industry partners of the British Institute of Interior Designers (BIID), the leading professional organisation for interior designers in the UK. Website: http://www.rsavsolutions.com. Email: info(at)rsavsolutions(dot)com. Tel: 0845 266 6625.

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Secure Network Framework

Information security is a concept which seeks to protect sensitive information from external sources that are not meant to access it and it is a fundamental consideration in the design and implementation of network frameworks. Khnaser and Hunter (2004) postulates that security in networks should be guided by the CIA phrase which denotes confidentiality, integrity and availability. Confidentiality implies that private information such as that of an individual or an organization should not be accessible to outsiders without authority. This implies that there should be a control mechanism of how data is accessed, without necessarily complicating data access for authorized persons. Integrity means that information in a network should preserve the consistency and accuracy of data against unauthorized or fraudulent alteration. A network framework that does not take caution to shield its internal data from predation is vulnerable to security threats.  These can emanate from internal or external users with internal threats being recognized as more prevalent and damaging than the external ones. For the sake of this analysis, an attack on a network refers to unauthorized/ fraudulent access to information stored/ available in a network. A secure network framework is one aimed at reducing the prevalence and ease of attacks or ‘breaking into' a network. A secure network framework combines a myriad of concepts which should be taken into account in building or connecting to a network. These concepts are; attack prevention, attack detection, attack isolation and attack recovery and are discussed below.

Attack prevention

This concept refers to the mechanisms place in place in a network framework to minimize or prevent intrusions. Currently, there exists a myriad of efforts applied in an effort to curb intrusions. Most network attacks originate from applications and systems present on web applications. Fundamentally, malware attacks exploit vulnerabilities arising from network design failures especially due to lack of input validation. Such includes worm attacks, DoS attacks and port scans.  One of the most common applications in intrusion prevention is the application of anti-virus softwares which are signature codes designed to spot and prevent attacks either by blockage or deletion. The anti-viruses are common although they do not present a seal-proof prevention, since they act on intrusion once it's already in a network. Recent developments have been to develop intrusion prevention systems that restrict the entrance of malware programs in a network.  Such developments has come in forms such as Cisco's intrusion prevention- an improvement form the conventional firewall's designed to not only protect vulnerable computers but also thwart unforeseen attacks (Cisco Systems, 2001).

In incorporating attack prevention, a network should be designed to incorporate the following abilities. First, it should be able to identify security threats of all forms. The conventional anti-viruses use signatures which detect any new attacks. To achieve this, a network system should be able to download new signatures to combat new foreign programs. Although successful in varied times, these new signatures do not present the most desirable prevention tool. The desirable prevention mechanism should therefore be that which has the capability of both identifying and building a decoding prevention system that lenders the attack harmless. Another attack prevention option available is the application of valid checks on parts of some of the operands utilized in security sensitive operations. This application targets script injection and SQL attacks which are the most prevalent forms of web network attacks.  Ideally therefore, an attack prevention concept should be incorporated in the design of a network framework especially in supporting softwares. There have been developments in attack prevention systems where softwares are designed for incorporation with hardware network devices for preventing the entry of foreign intrusions. The approach in this case is to design a software and hardware architecture that enhances attack identification, detection and isolation mechanisms that enable the attack to be deactivated appropriately. Such a system is the HACQIT, analyzed by Reynolds et al (2002).

Attack Detection

As mentioned earlier, most of the conventional security systems such as firewalls and anti virus softwares are designed to operate either at end nodes or at network vantage points. As such, they are unable to perform a wide range of possible attacks such as in bandwidth attack which may be blocked at the end-nodes yet end up consuming a huge internal network bandwidth making the whole network unusable. There are also attacks such as most DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) which routinely penetrates firewalls and therefore leave the network vulnerable. This implies that the conventional attack prevention methods do not provide a network frame with a complete seal proof security for mitigation against such attacks.  Based on these weaknesses, vendors and researchers of network security programs have suggested the development of attack detection systems or perimeter defences which are designed to operate at the entrance of a network or a subnet. When such a measure is taken, the concept is referred to as intrusion detection.  According to Kompella, Singh and Varghese (2004), there are two conventional approaches to intrusion detections, that is, signature detection and anomaly detection. Signature detection is applicable in detecting a specific type of attack, for instance, vital and known attacks by worms and viruses. This detection is but weak in detecting other type of attacks such as DDoS and scan attacks which do not have a characteristic signature in a single packet but rather are characterized by malfunctions or unusual behaviours across a spectrum of packets. Anomaly detection on the other hand operates by first identifying a normal behaviour in a network. It achieves this using either change point detections or wavelets. After identifying normal behaviours, it consequently flags off any behaviour that shows a characteristic deviation form the ‘normal network operation'. Attack detection is an improvement to attack prevention since it is aimed at identifying malwares even before they get into the network, unlike in attack prevention which aims at preventing the execution of abnormal behaviours that have already penetrated the network. In designing a network framework, it would be crucial to consider the inclusion of such attack detection systems which should be incorporated in a network entrance to prevent the entry of programs with abnormal behaviours.

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Ken - About the Author:

The author  is associated wth Free Essays.

Creating a Social Network Website

The seemingly endless popularity of such social network websites as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter (to name a few) has a lot of companies both large and small rethinking their approach to attracting business and making a buzz in the perpetually changing online marketplace. The question on the minds of many entrepreneurs these days is how they might go about making a social network website for themselves. Before you can answer that question though, it is beneficial to first take a serious look at the benefits for your business. Question yourself these two key questions:

Have you identified a targeted niche that is not well served in the current social networking environment online?
Reckon seriously about why you feel you need a social network. There's quite a bit of competition in the social networking biz. Unless you have come up with a seriously innovative thought and have some financial backing, you may need to spend a bit more time in the plotting stages. If you have a fantastic thought, some money in the bank and you're feeling a small froggy, then go right ahead and get to hopping my small green friend.

Do you have the time and resources available to invest in making a social network website?
In the early stages of development, this kind of site will take a bit of time and money. Be sure to look realistically at your ability to invest both or you might end up wasting time and money.

Once you have given yourself an honest answer to each of these questions you will have a better overview of whether you should make your own site or if you should simply integrate the existing social networks into your overall plot of action. google_ad_channel = "7940249670, " + AB_cat_channel + AB_unit_channel; google_language = "en"; google_ad_region = 'test';

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Gary Klingsheim - About the Author:

Moonrise Productions is a full services social networking website development, ecommerce development and more. With New York, San Diego, San Francisco and a Los Angeles presence no matter where you are, we've got people to serve you.