Abstract
Unfortunate recent events clarified the absolute requirement
for a unified, concerted, scientifically proven strategy for
combating forms of actual or potential cyber-terrorism.
In this paper we present related solutions based on some of
our ongoing and proposed future research in the broader areas
of data and system security.
More specifically we focus on preventive techniques for content
and system security. In the framework of content security we
discuss document tamper-proofing, watermarking and generic
information hiding detection, essential tools required in
the combat against attacks in the current distributed,
heterogeneous, networked world.
System security issues address new intrusion detection mechanisms
using biometrics as well as new concepts such as "data access patterns",
in the framework of structured content and "network breath" in
the case of secure computer networks.
Finally we present our research in the area of secure multi-party
cooperation, an essential component in any inter-party contingency
interaction scenario where trust issues might prevent complete
cooperation. In the end we introduce some of the main conclusions
and propose immediate-future research and focus points.
Keywords
cyber-terrorism, authentication, biometrics, secure multiparty computing
