In this paper, the authors discuss employees’ beliefs about their abilities to competently use computer information security tools in the determination of effective information security practices within organizations. In the first section the authors present a background about information security practices at work. Then, the authors present a research approach based on social cognitive theory ...

In this paper, we identify security objectives and requirements for a class of ubiquitous computing technology, namely environmental sensing infrastructure. The method used starts with analyzing scenarios to define user-driven security objectives for specific applications and identify hints to potential misuse in a realistic setting. The described applications are examined to understand how the...

We address the problem of realizing concurrently composable secure computation without setup assumptions. While provably impossible in the UC framework of [Can01], Prabhakaran and Sahai had recently suggested a relaxed framework called generalized Environmental Security (gES) [PS04], as well as a restriction of it to a “client-server” setting based on monitored functionalities [PS05]. In these ...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the most employed network service in commercial and industrial applications, for the ease of its technical development in a processor, communication, and low-power usage of embedded computing devices. Sensor nodes are used for constant sensing, event ID, event detection & local control of actuators. The applications of WSN mainly include health, military, enviro...