Human-Related Information Security Problems Faced By British Companies In Economically Rising Countries,
2011
Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Human-Related Information Security Problems Faced By British Companies In Economically Rising Countries, Suchinthi Fernando, Tatsuo Asai
Australian Information Security Management Conference
In some cases, global businesses expansion leads to human-related problems due to cultural differences between investor countries and investee countries. This study focuses on such problems in the area of information security. Potential problems which British companies may face in rising economies are discussed here. Russia, India and China, where UK is one of the key investors, are examined. Potential problems were developed by using Hofstede’s framework of culture and the recently proposed theory of Level of Potential (LoP) was adopted to predict their magnitudes. Three online surveys were conducted in Russia, India and China to evaluate the severity of …
Out-Of-Band Wormhole Attack Detection In Manets,
2011
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
Out-Of-Band Wormhole Attack Detection In Manets, Sana Ul Haq, Faisal B. Hussain
Australian Information Security Management Conference
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are prone to a variety of attacks due to their unique characteristics such as dynamic topology, open wireless medium, absence of infrastructure, multi hop nature and resource constraints. Any node in mobile ad hoc networks operates not only as end terminal but both as an intermediate router and client. In this way, multi-hop communication occurs in MANETs and thus it is a difficult task to establish a secure path between source and destination. The purpose of this work is overcome a special attack called wormhole attack launched by at least two colluding nodes within the …
A Preliminary Investigation Of Distributed And Cooperative User Authentication,
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?,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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 …
Efficient Strong Designated Verifier Signature Schemes Without Random Oracle Or With Non-Delegatability,
2011
Singapore Management University
Efficient Strong Designated Verifier Signature Schemes Without Random Oracle Or With Non-Delegatability, Qiong Huang, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Willy Susilo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Designated verifier signature (DVS) allows a signer to convince a designated verifier that a signature is generated by the signer without letting the verifier transfer the conviction to others, while the public can still tell that the signature must be generated by one of them. Strong DVS (SDVS) strengthens the latter part by restricting the public from telling whether the signature is generated by one of them or by someone else. In this paper, we propose two new SDVS schemes. Compared with existing SDVS schemes, the first new scheme has almost the same signature size and meanwhile, is proven secure …
Identity-Based Strong Designated Verifier Signature Revisited,
2011
Singapore Management University
Identity-Based Strong Designated Verifier Signature Revisited, Qiong Huang, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Willy Susilo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Designated verifier signature (DVS) allows the signer to persuade a verifier the validity of a statement but prevent the verifier from transferring the conviction. Strong designated verifier signature (SDVS) is a variant of DVS, which only allows the verifier to privately check the validity of the signer’s signature. In this work we observe that the unforgeability model considered in the existing identity-based SDVS schemes is not strong enough to capture practical attacks, and propose to consider another model which is shown to be strictly stronger than the old one. We then propose a new efficient construction of identity-based SDVS scheme, …
Table Of Contents,
2011
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Table Of Contents
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
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