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Security Implementations of Active Content

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Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Athanasios T. Karygiannis

Abstract

Active content documents offer several benefits to both the users of these documents and their authors. Java applets, JavaScript, and ActiveX provide more functionality to static Web pages, plug-ins enable browsers to support new types of content, Postscript offloads the processing and interpretation of the presentation of documents to the printer, and macros automate repetitive word processing and spreadsheet tasks. The benefits of each of these active content technologies must be carefully weighed against the new risks they pose to an organization s computing environment. Security is not black or white, but shades of gray. When employing active content technology, security measures should be put in place to reduce risk to a pragmatic level and to quickly recover if an incident occurs.
Citation
ITL Bulletin -

Keywords

active content, java, javascript, macro, plug-in, postscript, security

Citation

Jansen, W. and Karygiannis, A. (2000), Security Implementations of Active Content, ITL Bulletin, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=151212 (Accessed November 8, 2024)

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Created March 30, 2000, Updated February 19, 2017