Security in Computing Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Challenges and Basic Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      Pages 3-28

   3. Fundamental Challenges

      Pages 29-51

   4. Computing Systems and Their Basic Vulnerabilities

      Pages 53-64

3. Fundamentals of Information Flow and Inference Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Messages, Inferences, Information and Knowledge

      Pages 67-92

   3. Preventive Inference Control

      Pages 93-153

4. Security Mechanisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Key Ideas and Examples

      Pages 157-180

   3. Combined Techniques

      Pages 181-202

   4. Techniques of Control and Monitoring: Essentials

      Pages 203-208

   5. Conceptual Access Rights

      Pages 209-301

   6. Elements of a Security Architecture

      Pages 303-354

   7. Monitoring and Intrusion Detection

      Pages 355-367

   8. Techniques of Cryptography: Essentials

      Pages 369-427

   9. Encryption

      Pages 429-478

   10. Authentication

       Pages 479-512

   11. Anonymization

       Pages 513-525

   12. Some Further Cryptographic Protocols

       Pages 527-557

This monograph on Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions aims at introducing, surveying and assessing the fundamentals of se- rity with respect to computing. Here, “computing” refers to all activities which individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computing s- tems, i. e. , by means of computers and networks of them built on telecommuni- tion. We all are such individuals, whether enthusiastic or just bowed to the inevitable. So, as part of the ‘‘information society’’, we are challenged to maintain our values, to pursue our goals and to enforce our interests, by consciously desi- ing a ‘‘global information infrastructure’’ on a large scale as well as by approp- ately configuring our personal computers on a small scale. As a result, we hope to achieve secure computing: Roughly speaking, computer-assisted activities of in- viduals and computer-mediated cooperation between individuals should happen as required by each party involved, and nothing else which might be harmful to any party should occur. The notion of security circumscribes many aspects, ranging from human qua- ties to technical enforcement. First of all, in considering the explicit security requirements of users, administrators and other persons concerned, we hope that usually all persons will follow the stated rules, but we also have to face the pos- bility that some persons might deviate from the wanted behavior, whether ac- dently or maliciously.

• Access Control
• Anonymization
• Authentication
• Computer Security
• Cryptography
• Encryption
• Information
• Intrusion Detection
• Oracle
• PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
• SQL
• Systems Security
• architecture
• networks
• security

• Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  Joachim Biskup

Joachim Biskup has been Professor of Computer Science since 1981 at the University of Dortmund, University of Hildesheim and University of Dortmund again. He has done research in recursion and complexity theory, information systems with an emphasis on database schema design, query optimization and mediation, and various aspects of security. He served on the program committees of many international conferences, including ICDT, FoIKS, ESORICS and IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Database and Applications Security.

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