This paper presents an evolutionary approach to the sensor management of a biometric security system that improves robustness. Multiple biometrics are fused at the decision level to support a system that can meet more challenging and varying accuracy requirements as well as address user needs such as ease of use and universality better than a single biometric system or static multimodal biometr...

In any given collaboration, information needs to flow from one participant to another. While participants may be interested in sharing information with one another, it is often necessary for them to establish the impact of sharing certain kinds of information. This is because certain information could have detrimental effects when it ends up in wrong hands. For this reason, any would-be partici...

This book describes how to use biometric features such as finger prints or iris patterns to construct private keys for cryptography. It is a very interesting topic, as, nowadays, cryptographic protocols can store/produce thousands of bits of secure information, while the user needs a password to make the exchange secure. The major weakness in a cryptographic protocols is the user himself. Biome...

This paper is about trust establishment and trust evaluations techniques. A short background about trust, trusted computing and security in embedded systems is given. An analysis has been done of an incident network scenario with roaming users and a set of basic security needs has been identified. These needs have been used to derive security requirements for devices and systems, supporting the...

In order to secure collaborative business processes, we present a methodological approach that early integrates security and risk management throughout the design process of service-oriented architectures. We develop our methodology based on two complementary axes: the first being the business needs while the second, is ensuring a consistent security between partners at the runtime. The informa...

With the increasing use of clusters in different domains, efficient and flexible security has now become an essential requirement for clusters, though many security mechanisms exist, there is a need to develop more flexible and coherent security mechanisms for large distributed applications. In this paper, we present the need for a unified cluster wide security space for large distributed appli...

The rapid development and extensive use of digital technologies, electronic mail, Internet and mobile communication systems, and electronic commerce applications lead to the collection and processing of huge amounts of personal data. The increasing reliance on the information systems conducts to the selection of security controls, that are driven by the business needs and the associated securit...