Since the end of Cold War, EU aims to advance a relevant and autonomous actor in international politics—especially concerning security defense politics. Scholars interested whether member states actually converge their preferences often analyze strategy papers qualitatively, focusing on selected countries at specific points time. In this article, we propose dictionary approach for analyzing dev...

In this special issue, we have selected five papers from the 6th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2011)1 and its workshops to show the breadth of research. The ARES conference brings together researchers and practitioners in the area of security. ARES highlights the various aspects of security—with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability...

Security patterns encompass security-related issues in secure software system development and operations that often appear certain contexts. Since the late 1990s, about 500 security have been proposed. Although technical components are well investigated, direction, overall picture, barriers to implementation not. Here, a systematic literature review of 240 papers is used devise taxonomy for pat...

Recent advances in development of wireless communication technologies and embedded computing systems led us into the area of the next generation wireless networks and smart devices. In this context, it is widely argued that security has become a primary concern, in order to ensure dependable, secure communications and services to the end user. There are many open questions for these challenging...

In a seminal work, Boneh, Sahai and Waters (BSW, for short) [TCC’11] showed that for functional encryption the indistinguishability notion of security (IND-Security) is weaker than simulation-based security (SIM-Security), and that SIM-Security is in general impossible to achieve. This has opened up the door to a plethora of papers showing feasibility and new impossibility results. Nevertheless...

Cybercrime has developed rapidly during the last decade, and recent years in particular have seen an unprecedented number of cyber attacks. Despite increased national and international efforts against cybercrime, cybercrime still has double-digit annual growth rates. As the number of services and systems connected to the Internet and migrating to cloud infrastructures increases, the ability to ...