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A Preliminary Investigation Of Distributed And Cooperative User Authentication, C G. Hocking, S M. Furnell, N L. Clarke, P L. Reynolds 2011 Plymouth University, UK

A Preliminary Investigation Of Distributed And Cooperative User Authentication, C G. Hocking, S M. Furnell, N L. Clarke, P L. Reynolds

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Smartphones and other highly mobile yet sophisticated technologies are rapidly spreading through society and increasingly finding their way into pockets and handbags. As reliance upon these intensifies and familiarity grows, human nature dictates that more and more personal details and information is now to be found upon such devices. The need to secure and protect this valuable and desirable information is becoming ever more prevalent. Building upon previous work which proposed a novel approach to user authentication, an Authentication Aura, this paper investigates the latent security potential contained in surrounding devices in everyday life. An experiment has been undertaken to …


Are Existing Security Models Suitable For Teleworking?, Peter James 2011 Edith Cowan University

Are Existing Security Models Suitable For Teleworking?, Peter James

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The availability of high performance broadband services from the home will allow a growing number of organisations to offer teleworking as an employee work practice. Teleworking delivers cost savings, improved productivity and provides a recruitment policy to attract and retain personnel. Information security is one of the management considerations necessary before an effective organisational teleworking policy can be implemented. The teleworking computing environment presents a different set of security threats to those present in an office environment. Teleworking requires a security model to provide security policy enforcement to counter the set of security threats present in the teleworking computing environment. …


Security Aspects Of Sensor-Based Defence Systems, Michael N. Johnstone 2011 Edith Cowan University

Security Aspects Of Sensor-Based Defence Systems, Michael N. Johnstone

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has IMAP and JMAP to perform planning prior to the deployment of forces, but there is a knowledge gap for on-ground forces during the execution of an operation. Multi-agent based sensor systems can provide on-ground forces with a significant amount of real-time information that can be used to modify planning due to changed conditions. The issue with such sensor systems is the degree to which they are vulnerable to attack by opposing forces. This paper explores the types of attack that could be successful and proposes defences that could be put in place to circumvent …


Privacy-Preserving Pki Design Based On Group Signature, Sokjoon Lee, Hyeok Chan Kwon, Dong-il Seo 2011 ETRI, Daejeon, Korea

Privacy-Preserving Pki Design Based On Group Signature, Sokjoon Lee, Hyeok Chan Kwon, Dong-Il Seo

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Nowadays, Internet becomes a part of our life. We can make use of numerous services with personal computer, Lap-top, tablet, smart phone or smart TV. These devices with network make us enjoy ubiquitous computing life. Sometimes, on-line services request us authentication or identification for access control and authorization, and PKI technology is widely used because of its security. However the possibility of privacy invasion will increase, if We’re identified with same certificate in many services and these identification data are accumulated. For privacy-preserving authentication or anonymous authentication, there have been many researches such as Group signatures, anonymous credentials, etc. Among …


An Empirical Study Of Challenges In Managing The Security In Cloud Computing, Bupesh Mansukhani, Tanveer A. Zia 2011 Charles Sturt University

An Empirical Study Of Challenges In Managing The Security In Cloud Computing, Bupesh Mansukhani, Tanveer A. Zia

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Cloud computing is being heralded as an important trend in information technology throughout the world. Benefits for business and IT include reducing costs and increasing productivity. The downside is that many organizations are moving swiftly to the cloud without making sure that the information they put in the cloud is secure. The purpose of this paper is to learn from IT and IT security practitioners in the Indian Continent the current state of cloud computing security in their organizations and the most significant changes anticipated by respondents as computing resources migrate from on-premise to the cloud. As organizations grapple with …


Stakeholders In Security Policy Development, S B. Maynard, A B. Ruighaver, A Ahmad 2011 University of Melbourne

Stakeholders In Security Policy Development, S B. Maynard, A B. Ruighaver, A Ahmad

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The Information Security Policy (ISP) of an organisation is expected to specify for employees their behaviour towards security, and the security ethos of the organisation. However, there are a wide range of opinions and expertise that should be considered by organisations when developing an ISP. This paper aims to identify the stakeholders that should be utilised in an ISP development process and how this may differ based on organisational size. The research identifies from literature nine stakeholder roles that are suggested to be required in an ISP development process. Contextual interviews are then used to validate these nine stakeholder roles …


Trusted Interoperability And The Patient Safety Issues Of Parasitic Health Care Software, Vincent B. McCauley, Patricia A H Williams 2011 Medical Software Industry Association

Trusted Interoperability And The Patient Safety Issues Of Parasitic Health Care Software, Vincent B. Mccauley, Patricia A H Williams

Australian Information Security Management Conference

With the proliferation of software systems and products in the healthcare environment, it is increasingly common for such software products to be constructed in a modular design. However, for modular software to be securely interoperable with other software products requires agreed consistent and accountable interfaces. This agreement may take the form of bilateral vendor to vendor arrangements or via a trusted external third-party who coordinates agreed interaction methods, such as a jurisdiction. Standards are a particular form of mutually trusted third party. Unfortunately, this agreed method of interoperability is not always present in vendor software. Where one software product or …


Analysis Of Bgp Security Vulnerabilities, Muhammad Mujtaba, Priyadarsi Nanda 2011 University of Technology, Sydney

Analysis Of Bgp Security Vulnerabilities, Muhammad Mujtaba, Priyadarsi Nanda

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a dynamic routing protocol in the Internet that allows Autonomous System (AS) to exchange information with other networks. The main goal of BGP is to provide a loop free path to the destination. Security has been a major issue for BGP and due to a large number of attacks on routers; it has resulted in router misconfiguration, power failure and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Detection and prevention of attacks in router at early stages of implementation has been a major research focus in the past few years. In this research paper, we compare three …


Experimental Study Of Dns Performance, Ananya Tripathi, Farhat Khan, Akhilesh Sisodia 2011 Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experimental Study Of Dns Performance, Ananya Tripathi, Farhat Khan, Akhilesh Sisodia

Australian Information Security Management Conference

An abbreviation for Domain Name System, DNS is a system employed for naming computers and network services. This system is organized into a hierarchical scheme of domains. Naming service provided by DNS is used in TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet, to easily locate computers and services like mail exchanger servers, through user-friendly names. When a user enters a DNS name in an application, DNS services resolves this name to other information associated with the name, such as an IP address. This paper presents the evaluation of a DNS server performance in the experimental backgrounds to establish the fact that …


Attack Vectors Against Social Networking Systems: The Facebook Example, Matthew Warren, Shona Leitch, Ian Rosewall 2011 Deakin University

Attack Vectors Against Social Networking Systems: The Facebook Example, Matthew Warren, Shona Leitch, Ian Rosewall

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Social networking systems (SNS’s) such as Facebook are an ever evolving and developing means of social interaction, which is not only being used to disseminate information to family, friends and colleagues but as a way of meeting and interacting with "strangers" through the advent of a large number of social applications. The attractiveness of such software has meant a dramatic increase in the number of frequent users of SNS’s and the threats which were once common to the Internet have now been magnified, intensified and altered as the potential for criminal behaviour on SNS’s increases. Social networking sites including Facebook …


Help Or Hindrance: The Practicality Of Applying Security Standards In Healthcare, Patricia A H Williams 2011 Edith Cowan University

Help Or Hindrance: The Practicality Of Applying Security Standards In Healthcare, Patricia A H Williams

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The protection of patient information is now more important as a national e-health system approaches reality in Australia. The major challenge for health care providers is to understand the importance information security whilst also incorporating effective protection into established workflow and daily activity. Why then, when it is difficult for IT and security professionals to navigate through and apply the myriad of information security standards, do we expect small enterprises such as primary health care providers to also be able to do this. This is an onerous and impractical task without significant assistance. In the development of the new Computer …


Using Checklists To Make Better Best, Craig S. Wright, Tanveer A. Zia 2011 Charles Sturt University

Using Checklists To Make Better Best, Craig S. Wright, Tanveer A. Zia

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The more routine a task is we see the greater the need for a checklist. Even the smartest of us can forget where we parked our cars on returning from a long flight. So, the question is, why not create a straightforward checklist that will improve system management and security? In Information Technology operations, the vast majority of skilled people have re-built servers, but in an incident response situation, it can be unforgivable to overlook a serious security configuration simply because in the stress of the environment causes one to lose track of which stage they were on while being …


Source Code Embedded (Scem) Security Framework, Tanveer A. Zia, Aftab Rizvi 2011 Charles Sturt University

Source Code Embedded (Scem) Security Framework, Tanveer A. Zia, Aftab Rizvi

Australian Information Security Management Conference

Security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) has become imperative due to the variety of threats posed during and after system design. In this paper we have studied the security in system design in general and software development in particular, and have proposed strategies for integration of security in the SDLC. The paper highlights the needs of embedding security right from the earlier processes in the SDLC because patches and controls after the software delivery are more expensive to fix. We propose Source Code EMbedded (SCEM) security framework to improve the design of security policies and standards for the …


Seeing The Full Picture: The Case For Extending Security Ceremony Analysis, Giampaolo Bella, Lizzie Coles-Kemp 2011 De Montfort University, UK

Seeing The Full Picture: The Case For Extending Security Ceremony Analysis, Giampaolo Bella, Lizzie Coles-Kemp

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The concept of the security ceremony was introduced a few years ago to complement the concept of the security protocol with everything about the context in which a protocol is run. In particular, such context involves the human executors of a protocol. When including human actors, human protocols become the focus, hence the concept of the security ceremony can be seen as part of the domain of socio-technical studies. This paper addresses the problem of ceremony analysis lacking the full view of human protocols. This paper categorises existing security ceremony analysis work and illustrates how the ceremony picture could be …


Designing Cyber Warfare Information Infrastructure Resilience, Semir Daskapan, Jan Van der Berg 2011 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Designing Cyber Warfare Information Infrastructure Resilience, Semir Daskapan, Jan Van Der Berg

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

Due to many cyber attacks in the last years, governments are realizing how vulnerable they have become should there be a break out of a cyberwar. This urged them to establish a cyber warfare information infrastructure in a short time. However, this cyber warfare information infrastructure relies heavily on public infrastructures, like electricity and the Internet, which will be most likely targeted themselves. Therefore, a cyber warfare information infrastructure is by definition a vulnerable infrastructure that needs to be secured against attacks and made resilient. In this paper, we provide a method inspired by the theory of Complex Adaptive Systems …


Editorial: Special Issue On Ubiquitous Electronic Commerce Systems, Robert H. DENG, Jari Veijalainen, Shiguo LIAN, Dimitris Kanellopoulos 2011 Singapore Management University

Editorial: Special Issue On Ubiquitous Electronic Commerce Systems, Robert H. Deng, Jari Veijalainen, Shiguo Lian, Dimitris Kanellopoulos

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. Emerging ubiquitous electronic commerce systems (UECS) are expected to be available anytime, anywhere, and using different official or personal computing devices. Systems and services such as digital libraries, on-line business transactions, mobile office and mobile TV are widely deployed. Users will be able to access these services anytime, anywhere, while using any computing device in a pervasive way.


Table Of Contents, 2011 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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A Survey Of Contemporary Enterprise Storage Technologies From A Digital Forensics Perspective, Gregory H. Carlton, Joseph Matsumoto 2011 California State Polytechnic University

A Survey Of Contemporary Enterprise Storage Technologies From A Digital Forensics Perspective, Gregory H. Carlton, Joseph Matsumoto

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

As the proliferation of digital computational systems continue to expand, increasingly complex technologies emerge, including those regarding large, enterprise-wide, information storage and retrieval systems. Within this study, we examine four contemporary enterprise storage technologies. Our examination of these technologies is presented with an overview of the technological features of each offering and then followed with a discussion of the impact of these technologies on digital forensics methods, particularly regarding forensic data acquisition. We offer a general opinion concerning a recommended data acquisition method when faced with the task of obtaining a forensic image of data contained within these technologies, we …


Legal Issues Regarding Digital Forensic Examiners Third Party Consent To Search, Thomas Lonardo, Doug White, Tricia P. Martland, Alan Rea 2011 Roger Williams University

Legal Issues Regarding Digital Forensic Examiners Third Party Consent To Search, Thomas Lonardo, Doug White, Tricia P. Martland, Alan Rea

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This paper focuses on Federal law as it relates to consent to search relating to Fourth Amendment privacy in the practice of Digital Forensics. In particular, Digital Examiners should be aware of how decisions in Federal Court may impact their ability to acquire evidence in both civil and criminal settings. Digital Forensics, being a relatively new field, is particularly subject to change as cases and appeals are decided. This paper provides an overview of relevant case law relating to issues in Digital Forensics. More importantly, our research provides Digital Forensic Examiners (DFE), as defined by Lonardo, White, and Rea (2008, …


Exploring The Iphone Backup Made By Itunes, Mario Piccinelli, Paolo Gubian 2011 University of Brescia, Italy

Exploring The Iphone Backup Made By Itunes, Mario Piccinelli, Paolo Gubian

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Apple’s™ iPhone™ is one of the widest selling mobile on the market, thanks to its simple and user-friendly interface and ever growing pool of available high quality applications for both personal and business use. The increasing use of the iPhone leads forensics practitioners towards the need for tools to access and analyze the information stored in the device. This research aims at describing the process to forensically analyze a logical backup of an iPhone made by the Apple iTunes™ utility, understanding the backup’s structure, and creating a simple tool to automate the process of decoding and analyzing the data. In …


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