Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124114741 ISBN 13: 9780124114746

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2013

Emerging Trends in ICT Security, an edited volume, discusses the foundations and theoretical aspects of ICT security; covers trends, analytics, assessments and frameworks necessary for performance analysis and evaluation; and gives you the state-of-the-art knowledge needed for successful deployment of security solutions in many environments. Application scenarios provide you with an insider’s look at security solutions deployed in real-life scenarios, including but limited to smart devices, biometrics, social media, big data security, and crowd sourcing.

• Provides a multidisciplinary approach to security with coverage of communication systems, information mining, policy making, and management infrastructures
• Discusses deployment of numerous security solutions, including, cyber defense techniques and defense against malicious code and mobile attacks
• Addresses application of security solutions in real-life scenarios in several environments, such as social media, big data and crowd sourcing

About the Author:

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Center of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has more than 100 refereed publications in international journals and conferences on information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM). He is member of editorial boards of several international journals and has acted as Chair and Program Committee Member for numerous international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in the development, management and execution of KM projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., the application of social media in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organized crime, gun crime, cyber-crime and cyber terrorism and cross cultural ideology polarization). In addition to this he is the technical lead of two EU Security projects: “Courage on Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism and “Athena onthe Application of Social Media and Mobile Devices in Crisis Management. He has co-edited several books on Intelligence Management.. His recent books are titled “Strategic Intelligence Management (National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies) , “Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organised Crime and “Emerging Trends in ICT Security . Prof Akhgar is member of the academic advisory board of SAS UK.

Hamid R. Arabnia is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Georgia where he has been since October 1987. His research interests include Parallel and distributed processing techniques and algorithms, interconnection networks, and applications in Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (in particular, in image processing, medical imaging, bioinformatics, and other computational intensive problems). Dr. Arabnia is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine . He has over 300 publications (journals, proceedings, editorship) in his area of research in addition he has edited two titles Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Elsevier 2013), and Advances in Computational Biology (Springer 2012).

Review:

"Contemporary threats to national security and neighborhood safety are increasingly non-physical. Those who seek to destroy citizen freedoms and liberties are harnessing the power of Information Communications Technologies which now require innovative solutions. This insightful volume fills an operational gap in understanding Information Communications Technologies and is a welcome introduction to tackling the security challenges which lie ahead."

- John D Parkinson OBE, Chair of Steering Group, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC)