Quality Of Protection Security Measurements and Metrics

Information security in the business setting has matured in the last few decades. Standards, such as IS017799, the Common Criteria’s, and a number of industry and academic certifications and risk analysis methodologies, have raised the bar on what is considered good security solution, from a busines...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gollmann, Dieter (Editor), MASSACCI, Fabio (Editor), Yautsiukhin, Artsiom (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Advances in Information Security
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Motivations
  • Why to adopt a security metric? A brief survey
  • Service-oriented Assurance — Comprehensive Security by Explicit Assurances
  • Measurements: Reliability vs Security
  • Software Security Growth Modeling: Examining Vulnerabilities with Reliability Growth Models
  • A Discrete Lognormal Model for Software Defects Affecting Quality of Protection
  • Time-to-Compromise Model for Cyber Risk Reduction Estimation
  • Assessing the risk of using vulnerable components
  • Collection and analysis of attack data based on honeypots deployed on the Internet
  • Quantitative Security Models
  • Multilevel Security and Quality of Protection
  • A Conceptual Model for Service Availability
  • A SLA evaluation methodology in Service Oriented Architectures
  • Towards a Notion of Quantitative Security Analysis
  • Metrics for Anonymity and Confidentiality
  • The Lower Bound of Attacks on Anonymity Systems — A Unicity Distance Approach
  • Intersection Attacks on Web-Mixes: Bringing the Theory into Praxis
  • Using Guesswork as a Measure for Confidentiality of Selectively Encrypted Messages
  • Measuring Inference Exposure in Outsourced Encrypted Databases