Trust, Security and Privacy in Emerging Distributed Systems

摘要

The rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks coupled with the proliferation of services and applications in both Internet-based and ad-hoc based environments have brought network and system security issues to the fore. We have been witnessing ever-increasing cyber-attacks on the network and system leading to tarnished confidence and trusts in the use of networked distributed systems. As a result, there is an increasing demand for development of new trust, security and privacy approaches to guarantee the privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networked distributed systems. The collections in this special issue present recent advances in trust, security and privacy for emerging parallel and distributed systems. The first set of papers focus on the detection and prevention of malicious activates sub-theme. The second set of papers is on trusted resource sharing. The third set of the papers is on the security of wireless sensor networks. The final set of papers focus on the access control mechanisms sub-theme.