Various Identity and Access Management (IAM) architectural challenges are emerging for
the effective deployment of applications in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) context …

The software and networking industry is experiencing a rapid development and deployment
of Network Functions Visualization (NFV) technology, in both enterprise and cloud data …

Building secure systems used to mean ensuring a secure perimeter, but that is no longer the
case. Today's systems are ill-equipped to deal with attackers that are able to pierce …

In a provenance-aware system, mechanisms gather and report metadata that describes the
history of each object being processed on the system, allowing users to understand how …

Modern distributed systems are composed from several off-the-shelf components, including
operating systems, virtualization infrastructure, and application packages, upon which some …

Virtualization is now widely used in modern datacenters. Thanks to mature software stacks
and the widespread availability of plaforms all over the world, the Cloud is now available for …

In order to guarantee security properties, such as confidentiality and integrity, cryptographic
mechanisms provide encryption and signature of data, but protection is required to control …

In database applications, access control security layers are mostly developed from tools
provided by vendors of database management systems and deployed in the same servers …

Web services are a core component behind many of our daily tasks. The ability for
developers to create applications that are accessible from a range of devices across the …

We propose a novel and simple approach for securing access to sensitive content on the
web. The approach automates the best manual compartmentalization practices for …