Growing complexity of modern information processing systems in many service-oriented industries has resulted in increasing exposure of private information. This has lead to heightened security concerns related to identity theft: an employee has access to too much personally identifiable...

Software vulnerabilities represent a serious threat to cyber security: most cyber-attacks exploit known vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, there is no agreed-upon policy for their disclosure. Disclosure policy (protected period given to a vendor to patch the vulnerability) indirectly affects the...