Ebook Advances in enterprise information technology security

The first Annual Working Conference of WG11.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), focuses on various state-of-the-art concepts in the field of Network and Distributed Systems Security. Our society is rapidly evolving and irreversibly set on a course governed by electronic interactions. We have seen the birth of email in the early seventies, and are now facing new challenging applications such as e-commerce, e-government, . . . . The more our society relies on electronic forms of communication, the more the security of these communication networks is essential for its wellfunctioning. As a consequence, research on methods and techniques to improve network security is of paramount importance.