IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
I. Design for Dependability and Security
- Architectures
- Fault-tolerant, secure, and safe middleware
- Intrusion detection and tolerance
- Firewall technologies; authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
- Network technologies, including protocols, routers, and switches
- On-line detection and recovery
- System Management and Administration
- Cryptography
- Application of cryptography techniques
- Key management
- Cryptographic protocols and algorithms, and their security
- Use of COTS components
II. Evaluation
- Modeling and Prediction
- Threat-assessment and intrusion-detection models
- Availability, performability, and survivability
- Intrusion tolerance; attack models
- Modeling methods, including Markov chains, queuing/fluid flow, Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN), SAN models
- Experimental Methods
- Monitoring and measurement
- Workload characterization
- Benchmarking
- Test-bed design, including fault, error, attack, and workload generation
- Field monitoring and measurement, including failures, security violations and break-ins, and intrusion detection
- Statistical methods
- Formal Specification and Verification
- Quality of Service (encompassing performability, security, and safety)
III. Application-Specific Areas
- Survivable Database Design and Transaction Processing
- Electronic Commerce
- Embedded Systems
- File and File System Security
- Distributed and Pervasive Systems
- Smartcards and Biometrics
- Real-Time Systems
- Safety-Critical Systems (e.g., aerospace computing)
- Internet Applications
- Multimedia Applications and Signal-Processing
IV. Software Design
- Operating System Support (for error/intrusion detection and/or tolerance)
- Self-Checking Software Systems
- Dependable, Secure Protocols and Network Interfaces
- Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
- Software Aging and Rejuvenation
- Software Security and Reliability Engineering
V. New Technologies (problems and opportunities)
- Nanoscale Computing
- Ad Hoc Networks
- Pervasive and Embedded Computing
- Networks of Satellites
- Data Mining
- Wearable Computers and Associated Networks
- Quantum Computing
- Cyber-Physical Systems (e.g., mobile health, Smart Grid, and ITS)
