Critical thinking in various risk assessment issues to benefit Malaysian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Information is the priceless assets in all size of businesses.This is widely accepted nowadays.In order to protect information away from the threats, it has becomes a very challenging job with the needs of comprehensive resources, it can be extremely difficult for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), not only because of they have lack of resources, they may have no ideas about the prioritized tasks.Risk Assessment however is the best way to make SMEs to have a clearer vision on where are they standing and how far they need to go. In this paper, we present some of our findings from a printed survey to illustrate the problems in the current practice on information security within Malaysian SMEs.Some questions in this survey are focused on identifying the problems on risk assessment faced by the Malaysian SMEs.In addition, we discuss the some advices in assisting SMEs to carry out risk assessment in a more effective and efficiency way

Highly Compact MIMO Antenna System for LTE/ISM Applications

Planar monopole antenna is proposed as the antenna element to form a compact dual-element multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system for LTE2300 (used in Asia and Africa) and ISM band operation. The system can cover a 310 MHz (2.20–2.51 GHz) operating bandwidth, with the total size of 15.5 mm × 18 mm × 1.6 mm. Measured isolation higher than 16 dB is obtained without any specially designed decoupling structures, while the edge-to-edge element spacing is only 7.8 mm (0.08λ at 2.20 GHz). Radiation characteristics, correlation coefficient, and the performance of the whole system with a metal sheet and a plastic housing show this system is competitive for practical MIMO applications. The antenna element is further used to build an eight-element MIMO antenna system; also good results are achieved