Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) flooding attacks are one of the biggest concerns for
security professionals. DDoS flooding attacks are typically explicit attempts to disrupt …

In mobile code systems, programs or processes travel from host to host in order to
accomplish their goals. Such systems violate some of the assumptions that underlie most …

Despite a great deal of work to improve the TLS PKI, CA misbehavior continues to occur,
resulting in unauthorized certificates that can be used to mount man-in-the-middle attacks …

We propose a comprehensive formal framework to classify all market models of cyber-
insurance we are aware of. The framework features a common terminology and deals with …

It has been reported [25] that life holds but two certainties, death and taxes. And indeed, it
does appear that any society-and in the context of this article, any large-scale distributed …

Given the financial consequences of security breaches, security risk management has
gained more attention in board rooms and garnered more involvement from top …

A fundamental problem in distributed computing is to map activities such as computation or
data transfer onto resources that meet requirements for performance, cost, security, or other …

In this introductory chapter, we lay the groundwork for the rest of the book by providing a
more detailed picture of the expected purpose, shape, and architecture of future grid …

Electronic mail, or e-mail, has brought us a big step closer towards the vision of paperless
offices. To advance even closer to this vision, however, it is essential that existing e-mail …

In most commercial and legal transactions, the ability to hold individuals or organizations
accountable for transactions is important. Hence, electronic protocols that implement …