This special issue is based on the 2007 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS-07) that was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. That successful symposium emphasized reliable, versatile, and intelligent systems employed by a broad range of security applications. The goal was to integrate developers of intelligent systems with those who use them in secur...

In this paper, the security and authentication of ad hoc wireless networks is presented by referring various papers by various authors. The various security issues containing cryptographic techniques and key generation techniques and international standard IEEE 802.11 is explained.

On behalf of the Program Committee of the 1st International Workshop on Information Security (IS 2006), it was our great pleasure to welcome the participants to IS 2006, held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2006), from October 30 to November 1, 2006, in Montpellier, France. In recent years, significant advances in information security have been made throughout the world...

Regarding security particularly in the field of multimedia, the requirements on security increase. If and in which way security mechanisms can be applied to multimedia data and their applications needs to be analysed for each purpose separately. This is mainly due to the structure and complexity of multimedia. Based on the main issues of IT-security, the special session introduces selected impo...

Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: Mobile Assisted Security in Wireless Sensor Networks Report Title The aim of the project is to investigate ways for integrating mobile robots to improve and reduce to complexity of providing security in wireless sensor networks. We worked on mobile assisted key managemen...

This panel highlights a selection of the most interesting and provocative papers from the 2002 New Security Paradigms Workshop. This workshop was held September 2002 the URL for more information is . The panel consists of authors of the selected papers, and the session is moderated by the workshop’s general chairs. We present selected papers focusing on exciting major theme...

This panel highlights a selection of the most interesting and provocative papers from the 2003 New Security Paradigms Workshop. This workshop was held August 2003 the URL for more information is . The panel consists of authors of the selected papers, and the session is moderated by the workshop’s general chairs. We present selected papers focusing on exciting major themes t...

This panel highlights a selection of the most interesting and provocative papers from the 2004 New Security Paradigms Workshop. This workshop was held September 2004 the URL for more information is . The panel consists of authors of the selected papers, and the session is moderated by the workshop’s general chairs. We present selected papers focusing on exciting major theme...