Aspects of Network and Information Security

by Kranakis, Evangelos; Haroutunian, Evgueni; Shahbazian, Elisa

• ISBN13: 9781586038564
• ISBN10: 1586038567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Ios Pr Inc

Summary

Network security is concerned with creating a secure inter-connected network that is designed so that on the one hand, users cannot perform actions that they are not allowed to perform, but on the other hand, can perform the actions that they are allowed to. Network security not only involves specifying and implementing a security policy that describes access control, but also implementing an Intrusion Detection System as a tool for detecting attempted attacks or intrusions by crackers or automated attack tools and identifying security breaches such as incoming shellcode, viruses, worms, malware and trojan horses transmitted via a computer system or network.Today's computer infrastructure is exposed to several kinds of security threats ranging from virus attacks, unA01ized data access, sniffing and password cracking. Understanding network vulnerabilities in order to protect networks from external and internal threats is vital to the world's economy and should be given the highest priority. Computer and network security involves many important and complicated issues and this gathering of scientists will help not only in raising awareness but also in teaching participants the state-of-the-art of security techniques. Topics in network security, information security and coding are discussed in this volume.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Network Security
Network security and survivability: using wireless overlay networks for critical infrastructure protection	p. 3
Security when routers are taken over by the adversary	p. 10
Security in quantum cryptography and quantum networks	p. 19
The case for self-healing software	p. 47
Multi-agent modeling and the simulation of computer network security processes: "a game of network cats and mice"	p. 56
Formal treatment of secure protocols: an introduction	p. 74
Behavioral and structural properties of malicious code	p. 92
Security from the practitioner's point of view	p. 110
Mobile and wireless communications security	p. 119
Humanitarian problems in information security	p. 134
Multimedia security: open problems and solutions	p. 143
A selective introduction to border gateway protocol (BGP) security issues	p. 152
Information Security
Steganography & steganalysis an overview of research & challenges	p. 179
Guessing and cryptography	p. 211
The exact and approximate encryption of quantum information	p. 218
A new approach to stochastic quantum processes, their manipulation and control	p. 234
Reliability approach in Wiretapper guessing theory	p. 248
E-capacity of information hiding systems	p. 261
Quasicrystals in cryptography	p. 274
Asymptotic investigation of mutual information and capacity of certain communication channels	p. 283
Information theory of covert timing channels	p. 292
Coding
A survey of new results in coding with feedback and searching with lies	p. 299
Remarks on E-optimal rate function in DMS coding	p. 308
Reconstruction of data distorted by some errors	p. 315
On (w, r) cover-free codes	p. 324
Switching methods for error-correcting codes	p. 333
On reconstruction of functions on the hypercube	p. 343
Index	p. 351
Author index	p. 355
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