Information and Computer Security: Volume 25 Issue 1

Design and validation of a trust-based opportunity-enabled risk management system

Alessandro Aldini, Jean-Marc Seigneur, Carlos Ballester Lafuente, Xavier Titi, Jonathan Guislain

The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) paradigm favors the use of personal and public devices and communication means in corporate environments, thus representing a challenge…

Cloud computing assurance – a review of literature guidance

Rossouw von Solms, Melanie Willett

This paper aims to provide guidance on cloud computing assurance from an IT governance point of view. The board and executive management are tasked with ensuring proper…

So long, and thanks for only using readily available scripts

Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad

It is often argued that the increased automation and availability of offensive cyber tools has decreased the skill and knowledge required by attackers. Some say that all…

Privacy-preserving recommendations in context-aware mobile environments

Nikolaos Polatidis, Christos K. Georgiadis, Elias Pimenidis, Emmanouil Stiakakis

This paper aims to address privacy concerns that arise from the use of mobile recommender systems when processing contextual information relating to the user. Mobile…

Must I, can I? I don’t understand your ambiguous password rules

Kristen K. Greene, Yee-Yin Choong

The purpose of this research is to investigate user comprehension of ambiguous terminology in password rules. Although stringent password policies are in place to protect…

Auditing for privacy in threshold PKE e-voting

Aggelos Kiayias, Thomas Zacharias, Bingsheng Zhang

This paper aims to investigate the importance of auditing for election privacy via issues that appear in the state-of-the-art implementations of e-voting systems that…