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In today’s computing environment, unauthorized accesses and misuse of critical data can be catastrophic to personal users, businesses, emergency services, and even national defe...
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When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...
Arno Hartholt, Thomas Russ, David R. Traum, Eduard...
Security functions such as access control, encryption and authentication are typically left up to applications on the modern Internet. There is no unified system to implement thes...
Recent technological advances have enabled both the consumption and provision of mobile services (m-services) by small, portable, handheld devices. However, mobile devices still h...