Abstract: The presently disclosed technology provides a threat-specific network risk evaluation tailored to a client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of threats to a first component of a networked system and assigning a plurality of weighting values to the plurality of threats according to the client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of vulnerabilities of the first component and determining a set of relevant threats for the first vulnerability based on the nature of the vulnerability and the weighting values assigned to the plurality of threats. The set of relevant threats includes one or more of the plurality of threats. The present technology may include determining a set of relevant threats for each of the identified vulnerabilities of the first component and calculating a risk of the first component based on the sets of the relevant threats.

Abstract: The presently disclosed technology provides a threat-specific network risk evaluation tailored to a client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of threats to a first component of a networked system and assigning a plurality of weighting values to the plurality of threats according to the client's security objectives. The present technology may include identifying a plurality of vulnerabilities of the first component and determining a set of relevant threats for the first vulnerability based on the nature of the vulnerability and the weighting values assigned to the plurality of threats. The set of relevant threats includes one or more of the plurality of threats. The present technology may include determining a set of relevant threats for each of the identified vulnerabilities of the first component and calculating a risk of the first component based on the sets of the relevant threats.

Abstract: The capacitor-less LED drive is an LED drive circuit having a design based on the utilization of the internal capacitance of the LED to replace the smoothing capacitor in a conventional buck converter in a power supply. LED lighting systems usually have many LEDs for better illumination that can reach multiple tens of LEDs. Such a configuration can be utilized to enlarge the total internal capacitance, and hence minimize the output ripple. Also, the switching frequency of the buck converter is selected such that minimum ripple appears at the output. The functionality of the present design is confirmed experimentally, and the efficiency of the drive is 85% at full load.

Abstract: The capacitor-less LED drive is an LED drive circuit having a design based on the utilization of the internal capacitance of the LED to replace the smoothing capacitor in a conventional buck converter in a power supply. LED lighting systems usually have many LEDs for better illumination that can reach multiple tens of LEDs. Such a configuration can be utilized to enlarge the total internal capacitance, and hence minimize the output ripple. Also, the switching frequency of the buck converter is selected such that minimum ripple appears at the output. The functionality of the present design is confirmed experimentally, and the efficiency of the drive is 85% at full load.