Foreword to the Special Issue of the 8th International Conference on Applications and Techniques for Information Security (ATIS 2017)

摘要

In this data-driven era, the world has profoundly benefitted from the advanced information and communication technologies for the purposesspanning from data collecting, data storing, and data processing to data analyzing and data publishing. However, the increasing severe threats andattacks toward information abuse in various critical cyberspace areas have also caused significant concerns. This urgency forms a timely requestfor advanced, formal, and general methodologies and techniques for information abuse prevention. In the context of cyberspace, the informationabuse behaviors could include revealing the private information of individuals or the trade secret of businesses by the willful or negligentanalysis activity. These behaviors are particularly vital for systems involving highly sensitive information, such as in accounting and financingcontext.