Information Assurance

Approach

Both security and dependability areas are rich and well-developed enough to have several books on their topics and trying to bring all issues together is going to be simply futile. Our attempt here, therefore, has been to bring together issues that emphasize the interaction and integration between the technologies available within the security and dependability areas with the hope to convince the readers about the importance of and the critical need for combined, more holistic approaches. Towards this, we have included chapters that provide overviews of the various issues in a concise manner as well as more technically detailed chapters that focus on some significant issues. We have also tried to accommodate the diversity of issues by ...