From Database to Cyber Security: Essays Dedicated to Sushil Jajodia on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11170)

This Festschrift is in honor of Sushil Jajodia, Professor in the George Mason University, USA, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. This book contains papers written in honor of Sushil Jajodia, of his vision and his achievements. Sushil has sustained a highly active research agenda spanning several important areas in computer security and privacy, and established himself as a leader in the security research community through unique scholarship and service. He has extraordinarily impacted the scientific and academic community, opening and pioneering new directions of research, and significantly influencing the research and development of security solutions worldwide. Also, his excellent record of research funding shows his commitment to sponsored research and the practical impact of his work. The research areas presented in this Festschrift include membrane computing, spiking neural networks, phylogenetic networks, ant colonies optimization, work bench for bio-computing, reaction systems, entropy of computation, rewriting systems, and insertion-deletion systems. Front Matter ....Pages I-XII From Cyber Situational Awareness to Adaptive Cyber Defense: Leveling the Cyber Playing Field (Massimiliano Albanese)....Pages 1-23 Policy Engineering in RBAC and ABAC (Saptarshi Das, Barsha Mitra, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Jaideep Vaidya, Shamik Sural)....Pages 24-54 Comprehensive Security Assurance Measures for Virtualized Server Environments (Ramaswamy Chandramouli)....Pages 55-77 Stratification Based Model for Security Policy with Exceptions and Contraries to Duty (Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia)....Pages 78-103 Asymptotic Behavior of Attack Graph Games (George Cybenko, Gabriel F. Stocco)....Pages 104-112 Some Ideas on Privacy-Aware Data Analytics in the Internet-of-Everything (Stelvio Cimato, Ernesto Damiani)....Pages 113-124 Protecting Resources and Regulating Access in Cloud-Based Object Storage (Enrico Bacis, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Stefano Paraboschi, Marco Rosa, Pierangela Samarati)....Pages 125-142 Function-Based Access Control (FBAC): Towards Preventing Insider Threats in Organizations (Yvo Desmedt, Arash Shaghaghi)....Pages 143-165 Virtualization Technologies and Cloud Security: Advantages, Issues, and Perspectives (Roberto Di Pietro, Flavio Lombardi)....Pages 166-185 Access Privacy in the Cloud (Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Stefano Paraboschi, Gerardo Pelosi, Pierangela Samarati)....Pages 186-205 A Strategy for Effective Alert Analysis at a Cyber Security Operations Center (Rajesh Ganesan, Ankit Shah)....Pages 206-226 Retrieval of Relevant Historical Data Triage Operations in Security Operation Centers (Tao Lin, Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu)....Pages 227-243 Supporting Users in Cloud Plan Selection (Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati)....Pages 244-260 Distributed Services Attestation in IoT (Mauro Conti, Edlira Dushku, Luigi V. Mancini)....Pages 261-273 Exploiting Data Sensitivity on Partitioned Data (Sharad Mehrotra, Kerim Yasin Oktay, Shantanu Sharma)....Pages 274-299 A Review of Graph Approaches to Network Security Analytics (Steven Noel)....Pages 300-323 Advanced Biometric Technologies: Emerging Scenarios and Research Trends (Angelo Genovese, Enrique Muñoz, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabio Scotti)....Pages 324-352 Attribute-Based Encryption: Applications and Future Directions (Bruhadeshwar Bezawada, Indrakshi Ray)....Pages 353-374 Static Analysis for Security Vetting of Android Apps (Sankardas Roy, Dewan Chaulagain, Shiva Bhusal)....Pages 375-404 Breaking Bad: Forecasting Adversarial Android Bad Behavior (Shang Li, Srijan Kumar, Tudor Dumitras, V. S. Subrahmanian)....Pages 405-431 Bot or Human? A Behavior-Based Online Bot Detection System (Zi Chu, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang)....Pages 432-449 Network Security Metrics: From Known Vulnerabilities to Zero Day Attacks (Lingyu Wang, Mengyuan Zhang, Anoop Singhal)....Pages 450-469 Theoretical Foundations for Mobile Target Defense: Proactive Secret Sharing and Secure Multiparty Computation (Karim Eldefrawy, Rafail Ostrovsky, Moti Yung)....Pages 470-486 Back Matter ....Pages 487-487