Emerging Trends in ICT Security.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhgar, Babak.

Contributor:

Arabnia, Hamid R.

Series:

Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Security measures.

Information technology -- Security measures.

Computer crimes--Prevention.

Computer crimes -- Prevention.

Cyberterrorism--Prevention.

Cyberterrorism -- Prevention.

Electronic surveillance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2014.

Contents:

Front Cover

Emerging Trends in ICT Security

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Review Board

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Preface

1 Information and Systems Security

1 Theory/Reviews of the Field

1 System Security Engineering for Information Systems

Introduction

System security engineering history

The system security engineering process

The revitalization of system security engineering

Established system security engineering methods, processes, and tools

Acquisition program protection planning

Information assurance

Systems engineering critical reviews

Modern and emerging system security engineering methods, processes, and tools

Discovery and understanding of complex systems for security

Mission assurance

Formalized security requirements

Early design considerations

Plan for failure

Security and system patterns

Leveraging system architectures for security

Agile and self-organizing system security

Security metrics and evaluation

Identified SSE research areas

Conclusion

Recommendations

Disclaimer

References

Further reading

2 Metrics and Indicators as Key Organizational Assets for ICT Security Assessment

GOCAME strategy overview

GOCAME conceptual framework

GOCAME process and the W5H rule

Security evaluation for a web system: A proof of concept

Target entity and information need

Security characteristic specification

Metric and indicator specifications

Implementing the M&amp

E

Risk and security vulnerability issues

Metrics and indicators for repeatable and consistent analysis: a discussion

Related work

Conclusion and future work

References.

3 A Fresh Look at Semantic Natural Language Information Assurance and Security: NL IAS from Watermarking and Downgrading to...

Early breakthrough in NL IAS

The conceptual foundation of NL IAS

NL IA applications

NL watermarking

NL tamperproofing

NL sanitizing/downgrading

NL steganography and steganalysis

A sketch of ontological semantic technology

Mature semantic NL IAS

Semantic forensics

Unintended inferences and the meaning of the unsaid

Situational conceptual defaults

The term, its origins, and the canonical case

Default reversal

Are defaults really common sense knowledge?

Underdetermination of reality by language

Scripts

Anonymization

Summary

2 Methods

4 An Approach to Facilitate Security Assurance for Information Sharing and Exchange in Big-Data Applications

UML extensions for XML security

Extensions for policy modeling and integration

Integrating local security policies into a global security policy

Assumptions and equivalence finding

Integration process for local SPSS

Resolving conflicts of integrated security rule sets

Creating the global SPSS

5 Gamification of Information Security Awareness Training

Literature review

General concepts

Serious games

Games adoption in multiple domains

Benefits of digital games

Gamification system

System architecture

Software tools

Game design

Storyboards

Password awareness game

Phishing awareness game

Information security awareness games

Information security awareness metrics

Conclusion and future plans

6 A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training

Introduction.

Background and literature

Human factors and information security

Information security learning continuum

Awareness

Training

Education

Dimensions of information security awareness

Knowledge

Attitude

Behavior

A field study

Concluding remarks

Further Reading

7 Security Projects for Systems and Networking Professionals

Background

Cryptography

Assignment in symmetric encryption

Assignment in hash functions

Extra credit assignment on steganography

Assignment in a key exchange algorithm

Assignment in asymmetric encryption

Demonstrations

Wireless network security

802.11 Wireless security

802.11 WEP Key cracking experiment

3 Case Study

8 Assessing the Role of Governments in Securing E-Business: The Case of Jordan

The role of government in E-business security

Overview of the Electronic Transaction Law (ETL): Law No. 85 of 2001

Overview of the National E-commerce Strategy

Security in Jordan's E-business initiatives: An analysis

Analysing ETL in relation to E-business security

Analyzing security within the National E-commerce Strategy

Discussion

Conclusion and recommendations

2 Network and Infrastructure Security

4 Theory Reviews of the Field

9 A Survey of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Technologies

Quantum key distribution

Quantum key distribution systems

QKD system architectures

The first QKD system: BB84

Los alamos: QKD leaves the laboratory

Plug and play: QKD made easier

First entanglement-based system: EPR and Bell's theorem

Continuous variable QKD: short-ranged but fast and secure

QKD networks

DARPA network: introducing layers

SECOQC Network: mixing and matching with nodes.

SwissQuantum network: simplifying QKD integration

Tokyo network: a high-speed network

The future of QKD

Quantum repeaters

Quantum memory

Free-space QKD: satellites

Device independent QKD (DI-QKD)

Measurement device independent QKD (MDI-QKD)

A military QKD usage scenario

10 Advances in Self-Security of Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

Overview

Framework for self-security, self-reliability and self-integrity of agent-based IDSs

Self-security

Authentication/authorization and secure message exchange

Key life cycle management

Self-reliability of message exchange

Self-reliability of components

Self-integrity

Prototyping and extending IDS-NIDIA

Tests

Related works

11 Secure Communication in Fiber-Optic Networks

Confidentiality

Optical encryption

Optical CDMA

Optical key distribution

Privacy and optical steganography

Availability

Jamming and anti-jamming

Optical chaos-based communications

5 Methods

12 Advanced Security Network Metrics

Method description

Principle of the method

Metrics extraction

Functions for metrics extraction

Metrics definition

Statistical metrics

Dynamic metrics

Localization metrics

Distributed metrics

Behavioral metrics

Description of experiments

Metrics extraction process

Discriminators extraction process

Mining and assessment process

Results of experiments

13 Designing Trustworthy Software Systems Using the NFR Approach

The NFR approach

The Phoenix system and trustworthiness deficit.

Application of the NFR approach for designing a trustworthy Phoenix system

Develop NFR softgoals and their decompositions

Develop operationalizing softgoals and their decompositions

Develop goal tradeoffs and rationale

Developing goal criticalities

Evaluation and analysis

Validation and lessons learned

14 Analyzing the Ergodic Secrecy Rates of Cooperative Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks over Generalized Fading Channels

Secure cooperative wireless communications

Improving wireless physical layer security using cooperative relays in a Gaussian channel

Ergodic secrecy rates of cooperative amplify-and-forward relay networks

Computational results

Tightness of the approximation for the MGF of SNR

Effects of fade distributions

Effects of transmit power allocation in distinct transmission phases

Effects of dissimilar mean signal strengths

Effects of increasing number of cooperative relays

Effects of increasing number of eavesdroppers

Appendix

15 Algebraic Approaches to a Network-Type Private Information Retrieval

The data processing scheme and statement of the problem

Description of the data processing scheme

Constraints on parameters and complexities of the data processing scheme

Algorithmic description of the solution

The (n, w)-Encoding of indices and polynomial representation of the database

Encoding the algorithm

Constructing the l-th replica to the query

Decoding of the bit xi by the user-receiver

Implementing the data processing algorithms

Algebraic description of the solution

Cyclotomic classes of GF(2m) having the maximum size m

Assigning the encoding matrices.

Representing the algorithm for constructing the bit xi as finding the solution to the two-hypotheses testing problem.

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Other Format:

Print version: Akhgar, Babak Emerging Trends in ICT Security

ISBN:

9780124104877

OCLC:

863824418