By Yves Deswarte, FrA©dA©ric Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Lingyu Wang

This quantity comprises the papers offered at 3 workshops embedded within the nineteenth IFIP foreign convention on details protection (SEC2004), which was once backed by means of the overseas Federation for info Processing (IFIP) and held in August 2004 as a co-located convention of the 18th IFIP global computing device Congress in Toulouse, France. the 1st workshop was once equipped by means of IFIP operating workforce 11.1, that is itself devoted to info safety administration, i.e., not just to the sensible implementation of recent protection know-how issued from fresh study and improvement, but additionally and often to the advance of defense perform in all agencies, from multinational enterprises to small organisations. tools and strategies are constructed to extend own know-how and schooling in defense, study and deal with hazards, establish protection rules, assessment and certify items, methods and platforms. the second one workshop used to be equipped by means of IFIP operating crew 11.8, devoted to info safeguard schooling. This 12 months, the workshop was once geared toward constructing a primary draft of a world doctorate software permitting a specialization in IT defense. The draft relies upon chosen papers from contributors or teams (from educational, army and govt organizations), and discussions on the workshop. This draft could be additional subtle and at last released as an IFIP document. ultimately, the final workshop was once geared up via IFIP operating team 11.4 on community safeguard. the aim of the workshop was once to collect privateness and anonymity specialists from worldwide to debate fresh advances and new views on those subject matters which are more and more vital points in digital prone, in particular in complicated dispensed purposes, resembling m-commerce, agent-based platforms, P2P, and so on. The rigorously chosen papers accrued during this quantity express the richness of the knowledge protection area, in addition to the liveliness of the operating teams cooperating within the IFIP Technical Committee eleven on safety and defense in details Processing platforms. info safety administration, schooling and privateness is vital analyzing for students, researchers, and practitioners attracted to preserving velocity with the ever-growing box of data safety.