IT-Security and Privacy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-4

3. Privacy in the Global Information Society

   Pages 5-33

4. IT-Security

   Pages 35-106

5. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

   Pages 107-165

6. A Task-Based Privacy Model

   Pages 167-200

7. Specification and Implementation of the Privacy Policy Following the Generalised Framework for Access Control- Approach

   Pages 201-257

8. Concluding Remarks

   Pages 259-260

9. Appendix A: Formal Mathematical Privacy Model

   Pages 261-323

10. Appendix B: Implementation of a Hospital Scenario as a Demonstration Example

    Pages 325-330

11. Back Matter

    Pages 331-331

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Invasion of privacy and misuse of personal data are among the most obvious negative effects of today's information and communication technologies. Besides technical issues from a variety of fields, privacy legislation, depending on national activities and often lacking behind technical progress, plays an important role in designing, implementing, and using privacy-enhancing systems.
Taking into account technical aspects from IT security, this book presents in detail a formal task-based privacy model which can be used to technically enforce legal privacy requirements. Furthermore, the author specifies how the privacy model policy has been implemented together with other security policies in accordance with the Generalized Framework for Access Control (GFAC).
This book will appeal equally to R&D professionals and practitioners active in IT security and privacy, advanced students, and IT managers.

• IT security
• Information security
• access control
• anonymity
• communication
• data protection
• data security
• digital signatures
• information
• network security
• privacy
• secure communication
• security
• security policy
• steganography

From the reviews:

"The book offers a comprehensive view to the relation between IT security and privacy and to the privacy enhancing technologies. It represents useful reading for all IT professionals." (Jozef Vyskoc, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 980, 2002)

• Department of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

  Simone Fischer-Hübner

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