Abstract Web authentication systems use username and password mechanisms as the primary control for authorizing access to sensitive data and other resources of the Internet. While most Internet users view authentication systems as secure and usable, much research shows and many security experts believe that this view and the current authentication systems promote bad habits that result in loss of security, which poses real dangers to the Internet. Because site-centric authentication models result...

Abstract The ability to communicate between workflows from different organizations is a mandatory feature that is here to stay. With the need to seamlessly share information comes the necessity to protect proprietary information from unauthorized partners. The work presented in this thesis expands the inter-organizational workflow tool previously developed at Monmouth University, in the Software Engineering Department, in several dimensions. The first, and most important, is the addition of a...

Abstract Since the advent of computer data networking, large and small business corporations, the banking industry, government, and military organizations, and today even the personal home computer user have all raised the concern for network security. Extensive research and development efforts have been exerted to develop sophisticated firewall and intrusion detection technologies. Most of these technologies are designed to monitor the gateways of local networks to the public Internet....