Contents



Preface

Understanding and realizing the security and privacy challenges of information systems is a very critical and demanding task for both software engineers and developers to design and implement reliable and trustworthy information systems. These challenges earn even more attention nowadays where our society relies on the use of modern information systems to address its own needs. The number of Internet users that present a high degree of dependability on systems and services for fulfilling their daily activities increases at a great pace. Thus, it is important to understand and identify all the necessary factors that play a key role in satisfying

This book provides novel contributions and research efforts related to security and privacy by shedding light on the legal, ethical, and technical aspects of security and privacy. This book consists of 12 chapters divided in three groups. The first contains works that discuss the ethical and legal aspects of security and privacy, the second contains works that focus more on the technical aspects of security and privacy, and the third contains works that show the applicability of various solutions in the

This book is perfect for both experienced readers and young researchers that seek to study the different sub-disciplines of security and privacy. All authors that contributed in this book presented their works in a clear and easy to read way in order for everyone to be able to understand the meaning of their contribution in relation to the book's objectives. Since every author has a background in security and privacy and introduces new research topics and solutions through their work, this book can

I would like to thank all authors for their contributions and the editorial team of IntechOpen for their valuable support to finish and publish this book. I would also like to thank my wife Liana for her support during the preparation of this book.

> **Christos Kalloniatis** Associate Professor, University of the Aegean,

**Carlos Travieso-Gonzalez**

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,

Greece

Spain

serve also as a valuable handbook for teaching purposes.

the security and privacy of the system.

aforementioned fields.
