degree on IT efficiency and security. The findings of this study, which has been conducted in partnership with the … of the present e-security situation in SMEs of Queensland's Gold Coast region. The data shows that the installation and … updating process in order to be on top of the IT development, which is why most SMEs rely to a substantial degree on the …

risk is placed on the security and privacy of the data. PVI, LoBot, and TVEM provide a means for clients to establish trust … in cloud platforms, thus reducing their risk exposure. PVI is a new management and security model that shares the … responsibility of security management in cloud computing between the service provider and client, decreasing the risk exposure to …

are more likely to affect user satisfaction than unintentional security breaches. Additional analyses were performed using …. The results also facilitated the development of a usability model and associated recommendations for how sites that … privacy policies and the impact of privacy and security breaches. As part of this research, a conceptual model is presented …

In this thesis we discuss two demanding problems from the field of computer and communication security that involve …, other than in traditional computer security problems, the adversary has a lot of control over the situation. The untrusted … ways: We propose relaxed, but still practically useful, notions of security for the DSP problem; we identify theoretical …

an untrusted service provider. We explore the limits of the security that is achievable in these scenarios. When … discussing security, we refer to the state of the art definitions from cryptography and complexity theory. The key contributions … prove its correctness and security. - We describe a new searchable encryption scheme that exceeds existing analogues with …

information about this object. This thesis discusses the information security challenges involved in the design and use of an IOT … discussed, including multilateral security and the client perspective, which have been neglected in IOT standards and research … literature so far. Second, we conduct a detailed security analysis of the most influential standard Object Naming Service (ONS …

human needs, is key to economic development, public health, and military security. The availability of these two resources …