Information security concerns the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information processed by a computer system. With an emphasis on prevention, traditional information security research has focused little on the ability to survive successful attacks, which can seriously impair the integrity and availability of a system.
Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare uses database trusted recovery, as an example, to illustrate the principles of trusted recovery in defensive information warfare. Traditional database recovery mechanisms do not address trusted...

Intrusion Tolerant Database System (ITDB) is a new paradigm for secure database systems that can detect intrusions, isolate attacks, contain damage, and assess and repair damage caused by intrusions. What makes ITDB superior to conventional secure approaches is that it has an ability to reconfigure. Thus, it can yield much more stabilized levels of trustworthiness under environmental changes. However, the reconfiguration faces the problem of finding the best system configuration out of a very large number of configuration sets and under multiple conflicting criteria, which is a NPhard...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017. The 5 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.

This book covers the essential theory and implementation of popular Bayesian optimization techniques in an intuitive and well-illustrated manner. The techniques covered in this book will enable you to better tune the hyperparemeters of your machine learning models and learn sample-efficient approaches to global optimization.The book begins by introducing different Bayesian Optimization (BO) techniques, covering both commonly used tools and advanced topics. It follows a “develop from scratch” method using Python, and gradually builds up to more advanced libraries such as BoTorch, an...