Developing Secure Distributed Systems with CORBA

Computer security consultants Lang (middleware security, U. of Cambridge) and Schreiner offer a textbook explaining the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) security services architecture and its design rationale, and a reference on how to use the services in practice using MICOSec, an open source implementation of the CORBA specification. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ulrich Lang, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, co-founder and Research Director of ObjectSecurity Ltd., received his M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway College, at the University of London. Before that, he studied computer science with management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.

Rudolf Schreiner, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of ObjectSecurity Ltd., a consultancy specialized in distributed systems security, received his Dipl.-Phys. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany) in 1993. Before his career at ObjectSecurity Ltd., he worked as a freelance programmer and consultant on various computer security projects.