...Victoria Skoularidou; Diomidis Spinellis Enumerates and compares a number of security‐enabling architectures for network clients. These architectures, either proposed as methodologies or currently implemented in software and/or hardware, are capable of protecting the client’s software integrity...

...Nasser S. Abouzakhar; Gordon A. Manson The growing dependence of modern society on telecommunication and information networks and e‐type systems has become inevitable. However, those types of systems are vulnerable to malicious attacks. The speed and automation in network attack techniques continue...

... network infrastructures problems stems from their nature of openness. A successful attempt for a network attack to a particular organization’s network could have devastating effects on the security of the organisation. In this paper we propose an innovative way to counteract distributed protocols attacks...

...Michael Turega There is a need today for active documents on a global network which can react to their environment. The documents should be able to deal with all issues of presentation, interpretation and security. They should be capable of presenting information in a way suitable for a particular...

...Steve M. Hawkins; David C. Yen; David C. Chou The migration from centralized mainframe computers to distributed client/server systems has created a concern on data security. If a disaster occurs to the organization that destroys a server or the entire network, a company may not be able to recover...

... levels of trust: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Computer security Information management Networks Trust Information Technology (IT) has become part and parcel of the business world today. In fact, it will continue becoming an ever larger factor in the future. Organizations will interlink...

...), selected its Internet firewall is presented. Finally, this paper concludes with a summary and the future of the Internet firewall. The term “firewall” applies to the combination of hardware and software products that are used to protect corporate networks and information systems from outsiders...

... Mainframes Networks Risk Establishing information security in a downsized, multi‐platform,multi‐vendor, enterprise‐wide information technology (IT) environment is emerging as the greatest challenge yet to confront the information security (IS) industry. This article outlines the problems, describes...

...Karen A. Forcht; Yuan‐Wen Aven Tsai Outsourcing Local Area Network (LAN) administration is rapidly gaining ground but, since many LANs are connected, virtually all users have at least limited access to information stored in different locations. Corporate staff therefore need to ensure...

...Stewart White First, know your network, its key points, the geographic nature of the business and how disaster can happen. Second, understand where the network bottlenecks are positioned. Several options are presented to reduce bottlenecks such as: permanent alternative paths, coterminous circuits...