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The main purpose of this research is to improve the security of critical computer systems with minimal costs. One of the main problems in such cases is the secondary emissions generated by electronic equipment that, sometimes, might contain confidential information stored inside a secured computer network. The implementation of a set of measures necessary to prevent information leakage through compromising emissions is generally expensive. This paper analyzes some minimal requirements that have to be fulfilled by the filtering devices in order to protect the existing commercial IT equipment against compromising emissions.
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This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Innovation and Research, UEFISCDI, project number 5 Sol/2017 within PNCDI III.
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Popescu, M., Bărtuşică, R., Boitan, A., Marcu, I., Halunga, S. (2018). Considerations on Estimating the Minimal Level of Attenuation in TEMPEST Filtering for IT Equipments. In: Fratu, O., Militaru, N., Halunga, S. (eds) Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. FABULOUS 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_2
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