Title page -- Introduction -- Contents -- Approaching Security -- Conceptual Approaches to Security -- Thoughts on the Open Information Society: Does the Concept of ``Privacy of an Organisation'' Exist? -- Striking the Balance: Security vs. Utility -- Secure Software Engineering: Developing the New Generation of Secure Systems by Introducing a Security Focus Throughout the Development Lifecycle -- Current Methods Applied to Security -- A Fuzzy Approach to Security Codes: Cryptography Between Technological Evolution and Human Perception -- Cryptography and Security: Evolutionary Information Theory and Prime Numbers Genetics -- A Note on Public-Key Cryptosystems and Their Underlying Mathematical Problems -- Intrusion in a Mission Critical Network: A Tutorial on Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems -- A World-Wide Financial Infrastructure to Confront Cyber Terrorism -- A Pragmatic and Foolproof Approach for Connecting Critical/Industrial Networks to External Less Secure Networks -- A Cyber Security Approach for Smart Meters at ERDF -- Understanding Terrorism and Its Interaction with Critical Infrastructures -- Facing Terrorist Attacks and Attacks to Critical Infrastructures -- Al-Qaeda: Its Global Marketing Strategy -- A New Paradigm for Countering Jihadism -- Modelling Deterrence in Cyberia -- The Cutting Edge of Cyber Network Development - A Paradigm to Translate and Predict the Network Strategies of Avant-Garde Cyber Criminals -- Protecting Critical Infrastructures from Cyber Attacks Involving Malware -- Police and Military Force Operations and Approaches -- Protecting Critical Information Infrastructures: Domestic Experience and Competencies of the Postal and Communication Service of the Italian National Police -- Fighting Terrorism in Cyberspace -- Cyberspace Control: How to Avert a Cyber World War.

European Measures and Legal Aspects -- The Role of Europe in Matching Today's Asymmetric Threats -- Information Sharing in the Context of European Union Critical Information Infrastructure Protection -- Defining Critical Information Infrastructure in the Context of Cyber Threats: The Privacy Perspective -- Crimen Ex Machina: A Legal Approach -- Curricula Vitae of the Authors -- List of Participants. NATO ARW - Operational Network Intelligence: Today and Tomorrow -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Cyberterrorism and cybercrime are on the rise. The normal computer user also has to fight against the 'scareware' or fake antivirus software websites and the ubiquitous spam. This book identifies the measures to be taken in order to minimize the strategic and economic impact of cyber attacks. It is suitable for engineers working on IT security.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.