Security in Information Systems: New Advances and Tendencies.
Eduardo Fernández‐Medina, Alfonso Rodríguez · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2009
Information Systems Security is one of the most pressing challenges currently facing all kinds of organizations.However, ensuring security and quality in both information and the systems which manage information is a complex goal necessitating the combination of two wide research disciplines which are usually separate: security engineering and security software engineering.The first discipline has a long history, and has usually focused on providing advances in security models, protocols, and techniques, but it remains in a constant state of development.Security software engineering, however, has emerged relatively recently, but is swiftly maturing and is focused on the integration of security into software engineering techniques, models and processes, in order to develop more secure information systems.This Special Issue of the international Journal of Universal Computer Science therefore includes the extended and improved versions of those papers that were selected from the best of the International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS 2009), and aims to serve as a forum in which to unite academics, researchers, practitioners and students in the field of security engineering and security software engineering, by presenting new developments and lesson learned from real world cases, and to promote the exchange of ideas, discussion and development in these areas.This edition is the seventh in a series, which began in Ciudad Real (Spain) in 2002, and has continued in Porto (Portugal), Paphos (Cyprus), Miami (USA), Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), Barcelona (Spain) and Milan (Italy), respectively.The workshop has gained a considerable reputation as a result of this relatively long history, and it receives an annual average of almost fifty submissions, with an acceptance rate of approximately thirty five percent.Our workshop has matured year by year, and is now established as a forum for high quality research papers in the area of security in information systems.The most valuable assets of this workshop, which make it attractive to authors, are both the highly exclusive set of program committee members (comprising 25 members of 11 nationalities), and the invitation of exceptional speakers of great renown in this