Network Security, Administration and Management : Advancing Technology and Practice

The explosive growth and deployment of networking technology poses many security challenges to networking professionals including network administrators and information systems managers. Often, network administrators and managers learn about specific tools and techniques that are applicable to specific systems or situations only, and hence, have a great deal of difficulty in applying their knowledge of security when a technology, a system, or a situation changes. Network Security, Administration and Management: Advancing Technology and Practice identifies the latest technological solutions, practices and principles on network security while exposing possible security threats and vulnerabilities of contemporary software, hardware, and networked systems. This book is a collection of current research and practices in network security and administration to be used as a reference by practitioners as well as a text by academicians and trainers.

Dulal C. Kar is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi, Texas. Previously, he was a faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia; Mountain State University, West Virginia; and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. He received the B.Sc.Engg. and the M.Sc.Engg. degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the MS and the Ph.D. degrees from North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. He is in the editorial board of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies published by IGI Global. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, signal and image processing algorithms, network architecture and performance measurement, network and information security, information retrieval, and educational technology. He has published over fifty refereed journal and conference articles in those areas. His research works have been supported by various grants from NSF, DoD, NASA, and Cisco Systems.

Mahbubur Rahman Syed is currently a professor of Information Systems and Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU), USA. He has about 30 years of experience in teaching, in industry, in research, and in academic leadership in the field of computer science, engineering, and Information Technology/Systems. Earlier, he worked in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the North Dakota State University in USA, in the School of Computing and Information Technology at Monash University in Australia, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in Bangladesh, and in Ganz Electric Works in Hungary. He was a founding member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BUET and served as Head of this Department during 1986-92. He served as the General Secretary of Bangladesh Computer Society and also as the General Secretary of BUET Teacher's Association. He received the UNESCO/ROSTSCA' 85 award for South and Central Asia region in the field of Informatics and Computer Applications in Scientific Research. He won several other awards. He has co-edited several books in the area of e-commerce, software agents, distance education, multimedia systems, and networking. He has more than 100 papers published in journals and conference proceedings. He has been serving in different roles such as co-editor-in chief, as associate editors, in editorial review committees, and as member of review board in several international journals. Dr. Syed has been involved in international professional activities including organizing conferences and serving as conference and program committee chair.