Optimizing Information Security and Advancing Privacy Assurance: New Technologies

Optimizing Information Security and Advancing Privacy Assurance: New Technologies

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 338

ISBN13: 9781466600263|ISBN10: 1466600268|EISBN13: 9781466600270

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0026-3

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Security and privacy are key considerations for individuals and organizations conducting increasing amounts of business and sharing considerable amounts of information online.

Optimizing Information Security and Advancing Privacy Assurance: New Technologies reviews issues and trends in security and privacy at an individual user level, as well as within global enterprises. Enforcement of existing security technologies, factors driving their use, and goals for ensuring the continued security of information systems are discussed in this multidisciplinary collection of research, with the primary aim being the continuation and promotion of methods and theories in this far-reaching discipline.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Provable Security for Outsourcing Database Operations (pages 1-17)

Sergei Evdokimov, Matthias Fischmann, Oliver Günther

Database outsourcing has become popular in recent years, although it introduces substantial security and privacy risks. In many applications, users may not want to reveal their data even to a generally trusted database service...

Chapter 2

A Host-Based Intrusion Detection System Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections (pages 18-31)

Ran Tao, Li Yang, Lu Peng, Bin Li

Application features like port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related information are used by Host-based Intrusion...

Chapter 3

A Keystroke Biometric System for Long-Text Input (pages 32-57)

Charles C. Tappert, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Mary Villani, Robert S. Zack

A novel keystroke biometric system for long-text input was developed and evaluated for user identification and authentication applications. The system consists of a Java applet to collect raw keystroke data over the Internet, a...

Chapter 4

A Six-View Perspective Framework for System Security: Issues, Risks, and Requirements (pages 58-90)

Surya B. Yadav

To secure information systems, the security risks and requirements must be clearly understood before the proper security mechanisms can be identified and designed. Today’s security requirement specifications are generally incomplete...

Chapter 5

Are Online Privacy Policies Readable? (pages 91-114)

M. Sumeeth, R.I. Singh, J. Miller

This paper examines the question of are on-line privacy policies understandable to the users of the Internet? This examination is undertaken by collecting privacy policies from the most popular sites on the Internet, and analyzing...

Chapter 6

Protecting User Privacy Better with Query l-Diversity (pages 115-131)

Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua

This paper examines major privacy concerns in location-based services. Most user privacy techniques are based on cloaking, which achieves location k-anonymity. The key is to reduce location resolution by ensuring that each cloaking...

Chapter 7

Globalization and Data Privacy: An Exploratory Study (pages 132-149)

Robert L. Totterdale

Global organizations operate in multiple countries and are subject to both local and federal laws in each of the jurisdictions in which they conduct business. The collection, storage, processing, and transfer of data between...

Chapter 8

Security Issues for Cloud Computing (pages 150-162)

Kevin Hamlen, Murat Kantarcioglu, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham

In this paper, the authors discuss security issues for cloud computing and present a layered framework for secure clouds and then focus on two of the layers, i.e., the storage layer and the data layer. In particular, the authors...

Chapter 9

Global Information Security Factors (pages 163-174)

Garry White, Ju Long

The Internet has changed security and because the Internet is borderless, security threats are now on a global scale. In this paper, the authors explore the global nature of information security from the perspectives of corporate...

Chapter 10

The Integrated Privacy Model: Building a Privacy Model in the Business Processes of the Enterprise (pages 175-196)

Munir Majdalawieh

This paper discusses the challenges that faced in the “DigNet” age in terms of privacy and proposes a framework for privacy protection. This framework is integral in ensuring that personal data protection is impeded part of business...

Chapter 11

Policy Enforcement System for Inter-Organizational Data Sharing (pages 197-213)

Mamoun Awad, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham

Sharing data among organizations plays an important role in security and data mining. In this paper, the authors describe a Data Sharing Miner and Analyzer (DASMA) system that simulates data sharing among N organizations. Each...

Chapter 12

Goals and Practices in Maintaining Information Systems Security (pages 214-224)

Zippy Erlich, Moshe Zviran

With the rapid growth of information systems and networks, security is a major concern of organizations. The main goals of information systems security are confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The cornerstone of an...

Chapter 13

Factors Influencing College Students’ Use of Computer Security (pages 225-234)

Norman Pendegraft, Mark Rounds, Robert W. Stone

Information systems administrators face a difficult balance between providing sufficient security to protect the organization’s computing resources while not inhibiting the appropriate use of these resources. Striking this balance is...

Chapter 14

A Game Theoretic Approach to Optimize Identity Exposure in Pervasive Computing Environments (pages 235-254)

Feng W. Zhu, Sandra Carpenter, Wei Zhu, Matt Mutka

In pervasive computing environments, personal information is typically expressed in digital forms. Daily activities and personal preferences with regard to pervasive computing applications are easily associated with personal...

Chapter 15

Hiding Message in Map Along Pre-Hamiltonian Path (pages 255-269)

Sunil Kumar Muttoo, Vinay Kumar

In this paper, an algorithm to embed information in a map along Hamiltonian path is presented. A file based data structure in which a graph is treated as a composition of three components, node, segment and intermediate points that...

Chapter 16

Probabilistic Inference Channel Detection and Restriction Applied to Patients’ Privacy Assurance (pages 270-294)

Bandar Alhaqbani, Colin Fidge

Traditional access control models protect sensitive data from unauthorised direct accesses; however, they fail to prevent indirect inferences. Information disclosure via inference channels occurs when secret information is derived...

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