This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2007, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2007. Its objective was to bring together leading researchers from academia and governmental organizations as well as practitioners in the area of computer networks and information security.
Invited Papers.- Surreptitious Software: Models from Biology and History.- Characterizing Software Self-healing Systems.- Assumptions: The Trojan Horses of Secure Protocols.- Smart Cards and Digital Security.- Virus Throttle as Basis for ProActive Defense.- Technologies for Protection Against Insider Attacks on Computer Systems.- Authentication, Authorization and Access Control.- Access Control and Declassification.- Reasoning About Delegation and Account Access in Retail Payment Systems.- Performance Evaluation of Keyless Authentication Based on Noisy Channel.- Avoiding Key Redistribution in Key Assignment Schemes.- Fern: An Updatable Authenticated Dictionary Suitable for Distributed Caching.- Class of Provably Secure Information Authentication Systems.- A New Modeling Paradigm for Dynamic Authorization in Multi-domain Systems.- Language-Based Security, Trust Management and Covert Channels.- Synthesis of Non-interferent Distributed Systems.- Privacy-Preserving Credential Verification for Non-monotonic Trust Management Systems.- Covert Channel Invisibility Theorem.- Security Verification and Evaluation.- Policy-Based Proactive Monitoring of Security Policy Performance.- Comparing Electronic Battlefields: Using Mean Time-To-Compromise as a Comparative Security Metric.- Abstraction Based Verification of a Parameterised Policy Controlled System.- Algebraic Models to Detect and Solve Policy Conflicts.- Event Calcululus Based Checking of Filtering Policies.- A New Approach to Security Evaluation of Operating Systems.- Intrusion Detection and Prevention.- Multi-agent Peer-to-Peer Intrusion Detection.- An Interval Temporal Logic-Based Matching Framework for Finding Occurrences of Multi-event Attack Signatures.- Towards Fully Automatic Defense Mechanism for a Computer Network Emulating Active Immune Response.- Mathematical Models of Intrusion Detection by an Intelligent Immunochip.- A Novel Intrusion Detection System for a Local Computer Network.- Investigation of the Effectiveness of Alert Correlation Methods in a Policy-Based Security Framework.- Host-Based Intrusion Detection System: Model and Design Features.- Network Survivability and Privacy.- Interval Approach to Preserving Privacy in Statistical Databases: Related Challenges and Algorithms of Computational Statistics.- Fast Service Restoration Under Shared Protection at Lightpath Level in Survivable WDM Mesh Grooming Networks.- Anycast Communication―A New Approach to Survivability of Connection-Oriented Networks.- Privacy Preserving Context Transfer in All-IP Networks.- Environment-A ware Trusted Data Delivery in Multipath Wireless Protocols.- Watermarking.- A Spatial Watermarking Algorithm for Video Images.- Watermarking Software to Signal Copy Protection.
