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The War on Cyber Crime

Digital Defense

By IGI Global on Aug 5, 2013
Contributed by Kaitlyn Retherford

Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems Cyber attacks are hardly a new concept, but their presence is growing exponentially. In June alone, 69 web sites, including those of government offices, in the nation of South Korea suffered a massive shut down due to damaging cyber attacks, reportedly linked to North Korea ("South Korea Blames North for June Cyberattacks", New York Times). This offense is just a recent episode of the ongoing rivalry between the neighboring countries, addressing just a fraction of the attacks occurring on a global scale.

While government espionage attempts via online hacking are a prominent source of cyber crime around the world, agencies and officials are not the only ones at risk. As reported in “Universities Face a Rising Barrage of Cyberattacks” by New York Times reporter Richard Pérez-Peña, research universities in the United States face attempts of online security breaches by the millions. The University of Wisconsin sees up to 100,000 hacking attempts per day from countries such as China, Russia, and Vietnam.

With information constantly being sent and stored in digital realms, sensitive information belonging to individuals, companies, and institutions is at risk. Technological security measures are a necessity in today’s world in order to block these harmful attacks from causing lingering and damaging effects.

Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems, a recent IGI Global publication, takes aim at exploring trends in Information Systems security technologies, techniques, and concerns, primarily through the use of cryptographic tools to safeguard valuable information resources. An excerpt from the preface of the book states:

“Without proper security precautions, Information Systems are prone to unexpected and intolerable side effects, such as leakage of operational and confidential data, identity theft and unauthorized access, and possibly modification of private data, services, and systems. Security services are required in order to guarantee information security and protection of privacy, such as data confidentiality, data authentication, anonymity, entity authentication, non-repudiation of origin and receipt, access control, protection against denial of service and phishing, and secure processing and deletion of data. In a nutshell, dependable and trustworthy security solutions based on strong cryptography are needed.”

Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems, edited by Atilla Elçi of Aksaray University in Turkey, Alexander G. Chefranov of Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus, Huaxiong Wang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Mehmet A. Orgun, Rajan Shankaran, and Josef Pieprzyk, all of Macquarie University in Australia, is a reference book that serves the needs of professionals, academics, and students requiring dedicated information systems free from outside interference, as well as developers of secure IS applications.

This publication is part of the Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics (AISPE) book series, a comprehensive collection of 13 titles that provide only the most cutting-edge research on how information is utilized in the digital age.
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