Safeguarding security for eGovernment services is an essential ingredient for the success of such services. For this purpose, isolated security efforts are not sufficient. Integrated concepts are required. In the publicly funded project SKe, we are developing such an integrated approach. One component of this integrated approach is a knowledge management-based solution to support the dynamic as...

The rapid expansion and dramatic advances in information technology in recent years have without question generated tremendous benefits to business and organizations. At the same time, this expansion has created significant, unprecedented risks to organization operations. Computer security has, in turn, become much more important as organizations utilize information systems and security measure...

In the last few years extensive efforts have been done to consolidate the manifold network environments. The needed services are integrated in a clearly arranged network and thus, decreasing costs and personnel overhead. Research in network and distributed systems security has provided significant contributions for well-known security problems. However, this is mostly done on the cost of expens...

Cloud Computing is a model of both service delivery and consumption for increasing the capabilities of enterprises dynamically without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. It refers to everything delivered as services over the Internet. Although the benefits of Cloud Computing are evident, security is one of the major issues which hamper the growth...