Search results for "trust."

Contratto di rete e diritto antitrust

2017

La disciplina del contratto di rete (“c.d.r.”) – introdotta nel nostro ordinamento giuridico dalla l. 9 aprile 2009, n. 33 (di conversione del d.l. 10 febbraio 2009, n. 5, c.d. Decreto incentivi), e poi a più riprese modificata in modo sostanziale – ha sin dalla sua emanazione suscitato molteplici dubbi interpretativi ed incisive critiche, per lo più determinati da problemi d’inquadramento sistematico e dalla lacunosità del dettato normativo. La dottrina più incline a manifestare il proprio favore verso il nuovo istituto contrattuale, comunque, ne ha sovente evidenziato l’unicità nel panorama europeo, tale da conferire al legislatore italiano (una volta tanto) il ruolo di precursore nell’el…

Disposición testamentaria para realizar la afección de bienes en derecho italiano. Una hipótesis más allá del patrimonio protegido y del trust

2019

This article intends to illustrate the very recent Italian experience on the fiduciary contract, as a tool capable of realizing a patrimonial segregation, different from trust. The contract of fiduciary, which in 2010 was expressly regulated by a law of San Marino, is not yet regulated by any Italian law, even if the project of reform of the civil code provides that the legislator should dictate its own discipline. The fact that it is not expressly regulated does not exclude that the instrument has already been successful. In this article, after describing the features of the fiduciary contract and proposing a new reconstruction, attention is paid to its interference with inheritance law. I…

Adopting encryption to protect confidential data in public clouds: A review of solutions, implementation challenges and alternatives

2015

A shift towards use of public cloud services is ongoing and more and more enterprises will start to use them in the near future. As public cloud services certainly promise to deliver many benefits, this new way of delivering services also introduces new types of risks. Due to the NSA’s surveillance programs, non-US enterprises need to reassess the risks of public cloud services provided by US companies and look for available solutions to protect their confidential data transferred and stored in the cloud. Encryption is seen as a solution to help enterprises full fill the requirements related to security and privacy, but is often challenging to implement. Encryption has its own security prob…

tutela della concorrenza e professione forense

2015

lo studio approfondisce le problematiche sollevate dall'esercizio del professione forense nel mercato della concorrenza.

Ethical Versus Conventional Banking: A Case Study

2018

The 2008 financial crisis has changed the structure of banking, generating public distrust in the conventional financial system. An alternative has emerged as a result of this lack of confidence. This alternative is known as ethical banking. A growing number of investors, asset managers, and financial intermediaries have incorporated sustainability considerations into their business practices. This paper discusses the origins of ethical banking and describes its primary characteristics. The goal is to determine whether ethical banking can be as profitable as conventional banking despite only investing in projects based on social values. A comparative analysis is performed to identify differ…

System for Executing Encrypted Native Programs

2017

An important aspect of protecting software from attack, theft of algorithms, or illegal software use, is eliminating the possibility of performing reverse engineering. One common method to deal with these issues is code obfuscation. However, in most case it was shown to be ineffective. Code encryption is a much more effective means of defying reverse engineering, but it requires managing a secret key available to none but the permissible users. The authors propose a new and innovative solution. Critical functions in protected software are encrypted using well-known encryption algorithms. Following verification by external attestation, a thin hypervisor is used as the basis of an eco-system …

Preventing Execution of Unauthorized Native-Code Software

2017

The business world is exhibiting a growing dependency on computer systems, their operations and the databases they contain. Unfortunately, it also suffers from an ever growing recurrence of malicious software attacks. Malicious attack vectors are diverse and the computer-security industry is producing an abundance of behavioral-pattern detections to combat the phenomenon. This paper proposes an alternative approach, based on the implementation of an attested, and thus trusted, thin-hypervisor. Secondary level address translation tables, governed and fully controlled by the hypervisor, are configured in order to assure that only pre-whitelisted instructions can be executed in the system. Thi…

Predictors of credibility of online media in the spanish polarized media system

2019

Credibility of online news media is facing important challenges: the levelling effect of the digital environment, the changing habits of consumption, polarization of discourses… This scenario makes it relevant to address what features of news brands and news content shape the credibility of contemporary journalism. This article tests a set of items, including journalistic standards, reputation and citizen participation, in order to build predictors involved in credibility judgments. The authors carried on a quantitative survey (n=416), representative of the Spanish online population. Results identified currency of information, inclusion of analysis and context, citation of sources and inclu…

Il diritto antitrust nella Repubblica indiana

Keep Calm in Heated Debates: How People Perceive Different Styles of Discourse in a Scientific Debate

2021

Scientific debates are, in an epistemological sense, argumentative approaches aimed at coming to the most appropriate conclusion. However, as these debates sometimes involve interpersonal rather than content-driven attacks (e.g., an argument between scientific experts might involve personal dislike), the following question arises: How do such communication behaviors affect people’s perception of the argument? In an empirical study, we presented prospective teachers (N = 222) with a newspaper article about two scientific experts controversially discussing the pros and cons of a fictional vocabulary training program. Using a 1 × 2 between-subject design, the article contained either a neutral…