This book responds to the growing need to secure critical infrastructure by creating a starting place for new researchers in secure telecommunications networks. It is the first book to discuss securing current and next generation telecommunications networks by the security community. The book not only discusses emerging threats and systems vulnerability, but also presents the open questions posed by network evolution and defense mechanisms. It is designed for professionals and researchers in telecommunications. The book is also recommended as a secondary text for graduate-level students in...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2007, held in Delhi, India, in December 2007. The 18 revised full papers and five short papers presented together with four keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on network security, cryptography, architectures and systems, cryptanalysis, protocols, detection and recognition, as well as short papers.