Computer Security Application Conference: Proceedings Conference Phoenix, Arizona, 1999

Proceedings of a December 1999 conference, with papers in sections on electronic commerce, system engineering, networks, security analysis, workflow, crypto, composition problems of component TOEs, security policy, and public infrastructures. Other subjects include information security education, mobile code, legal and technical responses to protecting US critical infrastructures, security architectures, middleware, and intrusion detection. Some specific topics are security policy coordination for heterogeneous information systems, user authentication in the Java platform, and relevancy analysis on the registry of Windows NT 4.0. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)