DATA, INFORMATION AND IT SECURITY - SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR SECURITY ACTIVITIES

Software Diversity for Information Security

In this paper we analyze a software diversification-based strategy to achieve information security. The notion of using diversity to limit correlated risks is a widely accepted strategy in many fields. Various risk management approaches strive to minimize the variance of losses faced by individuals by either risk pooling, as in insurance, or diversification, as in portfolio management. However,...

Adaptive Support for IT Security Tasks

Living in a networked world has not only positive effects like "unrestricted" access to many kind of services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also holds many risks like viruses, intrusive attacks, violation of privacy, and the whole set of well know risks combined with the use of software. Organizations providing eCommerce and especially, eGovernment services are in the focus of internet-...

Software Security and Security Software

mation security models or the fundamental building blocks used to create them. (A good example of this is “When Hashes Collide,” the first installment of the magazine’s newest department, Crypto Corner. Yet, we rarely read about security technology’s strengths and weaknesses in the specific hardware and software products used in real-world environments. Isn’t it curious that almost no published...

An Architecture for Security and Protection of Big Data

The issue of online privacy and security is a challenging subject, as it concerns the privacy of data that are increasingly more accessible via the internet. In other words, people who intend to access the private information of other users can do so more efficiently over the internet. This study is an attempt to address the privacy issue of distributed big data in the context of cloud computin...

Hardware and Software Data Security