Information Security in Research and Business

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Secure Information Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Information security — challenges for the next millennium

      • A. K. Stanley

      Pages 3-8

   3. Selection of secure single sign-on solutions for heterogeneous computing environments

      • C. P. Louwrens, S. H. von Solms

      Pages 9-24

   4. A Formal model to aid documenting and harmonizing of information security requirements

      • Jussipekka Leiwo, Yuliang Zheng

      Pages 25-38

3. Secure Data Bases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. A Compile-time Model for safe Information Flow in Object-Oriented Databases

      • Masha Gendler-Fishman, Ehud Gudes

      Pages 41-55

   3. Deriving Authorizations from Process Analysis in Legacy Information Systems

      • Silvana Castano, Maria Grazia Fugini

      Pages 56-67

4. Management of Information Security and Risks (II)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Role of Government in creating the IT security infrastructure

      • Mads Bryde Andersen

      Pages 71-77

   3. Code of Practice: A Standard for Information Security Management

      • Lam-for Kwok, Dennis Longley

      Pages 78-90

   4. Can Security Baselines replace Risk Analysis?

      • R. von Solms

      Pages 91-98

5. Secure Group Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. gGSS—API: a group enhanced generic security service

      • A. C. M. Hutchison

      Pages 101-110

6. Secure Commercial Systems (I)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Electronic Document Exchange in Sweden — the legal aspects

      • Per Furberg

      Pages 113-119

7. Tools for Intrustion Detection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. An attack detection system for secure computer systems — Outline of the solution

      • Ioanna Kantzavelou, Sokratis K. Katsikas

      Pages 123-135

8. Privacy and Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. A Taxonomy and Overview of Information Security Experiments

      • E. Jonsson, L. J. Janczewski

      Pages 139-150

Recently, IT has entered all important areas of society. Enterprises, individuals and civilisations all depend on functioning, safe and secure IT. Focus on IT security has previously been fractionalised, detailed and often linked to non-business applicaitons. The aim of this book is to address the current and future prospects of modern IT security, functionality in business, trade, industry, health care and government. The main topic areas covered include existing IT security tools and methodology for modern IT environments, laws, regulations and ethics in IT security environments, current and future prospects in technology, infrastructures, technique and methodology and IT security in retrospective.

• DEX
• Information Technology (IT)
• access control
• authentication
• database
• information
• information security
• information system
• intrusion detection
• networks
• object-oriented database
• privacy
• systems security
• technology
• tool

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

  Louise Yngström

• Data Security Institute of 1977, a subsidiary of Coopers & Lybrand, Copenhagen O, Denmark

  Jan Carlsen

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