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Quality Of Protection

Security Measurements and Metrics

  • Based on the first workshop on quality of protection
  • Combines security metrics with empirical software engineering

Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 23)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Motivations

    1. Why to adopt a security metric? A brief survey

      • Andrea Atzeni, Antonio Lioy
      Pages 1-12
    2. Service-oriented Assurance — Comprehensive Security by Explicit Assurances

      • Günter Karjoth, Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner
      Pages 13-24
  3. Measurements: Reliability vs Security

    1. Time-to-Compromise Model for Cyber Risk Reduction Estimation

      • Miles A. McQueen, Wayne F. Boyer, Mark A. Flynn, George A. Beitel
      Pages 49-64
    2. Assessing the risk of using vulnerable components

      • Davide Balzarotti, Mattia Monga, Sabrina Sicari
      Pages 65-77
    3. Collection and analysis of attack data based on honeypots deployed on the Internet

      • E. Alata, M. Dacier, Y. Deswarte, M. Kaaâniche, K. Kortchinsky, V. Nicomette et al.
      Pages 79-91
  4. Quantitative Security Models

    1. Multilevel Security and Quality of Protection

      • Simon N. Foley, Stefano Bistarelli, Barry O’Sullivan, John Herbert, Garret Swart
      Pages 93-105
    2. A Conceptual Model for Service Availability

      • Judith E. Y. RossebeØ, Mass Soldal Lund, Knut Eilif Husa, Atle Refsdal
      Pages 107-118
    3. A SLA evaluation methodology in Service Oriented Architectures

      • Valentina Casola, Antonino Mazzeo, Nicola Mazzocca, Massimiliano Rak
      Pages 119-130
  5. Metrics for Anonymity and Confidentiality

    1. Intersection Attacks on Web-Mixes: Bringing the Theory into Praxis

      • Dogan Kesdogan, Lexi Pimenidis, Tobias KÖlsch
      Pages 159-171
    2. Using Guesswork as a Measure for Confidentiality of Selectively Encrypted Messages

      • Reine Lundin, Stefan Lindskog, Anna Brunstrom, Simone Fischer-Hübner
      Pages 173-184
    3. Measuring Inference Exposure in Outsourced Encrypted Databases

      • E. Damiani, S. De Capitani di Vimercati, S. Foresti, P. Samarati, M. Viviani
      Pages 185-195
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 197-197

About this book

Quality of Protection: Security Measurements and Metrics is an edited volume based on the Quality of Protection Workshop in Milano, Italy (September 2005). This volume discusses how security research can progress towards quality of protection in security comparable to quality of service in networking and software measurements, and metrics in empirical software engineering. Information security in the business setting has matured in the last few decades. Standards such as IS017799, the Common Criteria (ISO15408), and a number of industry certifications and risk analysis methodologies have raised the bar for good security solutions from a business perspective.

Designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry, Quality of Protection: Security Measurements and Metrics is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute Security in Distributed Applications, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieter Gollmann

  • Dipartimento Informatica e Telecomunicazioni (DIT), University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Fabio Massacci, Artsiom Yautsiukhin

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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