Federal agencies and our nation's critical infrastructures, such as communications and financial services, are dependent on information technology ...

While the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken steps to protect its air traffic control systems from cyber-based and other threats, sign...

This book is a practical handbook of research on dealing with mathematical methods in crime prevention for special agents, and discusses their capa...

Technological innovations, notably over the past decade, facilitate the collection of substantial amounts of personally identifiable data about vir...

The first six papers deal with computer security technology that operates in rapidly changing environments and has to adapt to their shifting condi...

Cryptography is the study of methods to transform information from its original comprehensible form into a scrambled incomprehensible form, such th...

These reports describe the data protection laws of the European Union (Part I) and of selected foreign countries (Part II). They describe the legal...

In an age where electronic communications are changing in front of our eyes, the potential to do harm using mobile phones, satellite telephones and...

It is a federal crime to wiretap or to use a machine to capture the communications of others without court approval, unless one of the parties has ...

This book is a study of select issues and laws relating to privacy in the 21st century. Topics examined include an overview of federal law governin...

Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on-demand scalabi...

Mission critical real-time systems often function in environments that cannot be modelled with static approaches. Because of their (externally-driv...

Issues around security and privacy have received greater attention as the world becomes more digitized and interconnected. There are a myriad of te...

This book explores the use of Social Security Numbers (SSN) and Identity Theft. The SSN was created in 1936 for the purpose of tracking workers' ea...

There is no comprehensive federal privacy statute that protects personal information. Instead, a patchwork of federal laws and regulations govern t...

The term 'spyware' is not well defined. Generally it is used to refer to any software that is downloaded onto a person's computer without their kno...

Chapter One reviews basis elementary of residence security, classical residence security and health care surveillance system versus computer vision...

In November and December of 2013, cyber-criminals breached the data security of Target, one of the largest U.S. retail chains, stealing the persona...

Cyber-attacks could have a potentially devastating impact on the nation's computer systems and networks, disrupting the operations of government an...

DOD acquires new weapons for its warfighters through a management process known as the Defense Acquisition System. Chapter 1 contains GAO's 16th an...

This book is a provocative manifesto of disruptive thinking about cyber security. It presents cutting-edge thinking and professional reflection and...

It is a federal crime to wiretap or to use a machine to capture the communications of others without court approval, unless one of the parties has ...