Social trust is one of the important factors of the social relations, the social order and also the social capital. It also possesses an effective role in the development of the society. Its increase and decrease will influence on the primary groups and institutions to the entire society. Social trust is influenced by various factors and variables. The change in these factors will change the ex...

The traditional approach of providing network security has been to borrow tools from cryptography and authentication. With the Internet growing into highly decentralized and self-organizing networks, the open and anonymous nature of these networks makes them vulnerable to attacks from malicious and self-interested peers. So, we argue that the conventional view of security based on cryptography ...

It is obvious that a prerequisite for use of mobile agent systems in many settings is that security is taken care of. A proper trust model is necessary in order to build security. A lot of security issues arise if the trust model implies that not all hosts are trusted. This paper discusses trust models, examines the security issues, and points at possible directions for solutions in terms of se...

Every DNS security-aware resolver must have at least one Trust Anchor to use as the basis for validating responses from DNS signed zones. For various reasons, most DNS security-aware resolvers are expected to have several Trust Anchors. For some operations, manual monitoring and updating of Trust Anchors may be feasible, but many operations will require automated methods for updating Trust Anch...

Measuring the continuous improvement of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) is often neglected as most organizations do not know how to extract keyindicators that could be used for this purpose. The underlying work presents a six-level maturity model which can be fully integrated in a risk management tool and helps to define key indicators for measuring the improvement of an ISMS. Fu...

Privacy preserving data mining is one of the most demanding research areas within the data mining community. In many cases, multiple parties may wish to share aggregate private data without disclosing any private information at user side. Over the last few years this has naturally lead to a growing interest in security or privacy issues in data mining. More precisely, it became clear that disco...

Embedded systems have found a very strong foothold in global Information Technology (IT) market since they can provide very specialized and intricate functionality to a wide range of products. On the other hand, the migration of IT functionality to a plethora of new smart devices (like mobile phones, cars, aviation, game or households machines) has enabled the collection of a considerable numbe...

The implementation of an enterprise-level business intelligence initiative is a large-scale and complex undertaking, involving significant expenditure and multiple stakeholders over a lengthy period. It is therefore imperative to have systematic guidelines for business intelligence stakeholders in referring business intelligence maturity levels. Draw upon the prudent concepts of the Capability ...