In this paper, the authors focus on digitally signing documents as a specific use case for making secure hardware available to a web application. They explore the current options available to implementers and the drawbacks associated with each option. Then they look at the emerging web cryptography API developed by the W3C and discover missing ...

In the context of distance learning, the assessment of the learner teaching activity becomes difficult due to the lack of feedback to the tutor. The analysis of the learner usage tracks generated by learning tools during training sessions is a way for supervising and monitoring the distant learners. In this paper, the authors present the ...

Information security auditing plays key role in providing any organization’s good security level. Because of the high cost, time and human resource intensiveness, audit expenses optimization becomes an actual issue. One of the solutions could be development of software that allows reducing cost, speeding up and facilitating Information Security audit process. The authors suggest that ...

Within a Multi-Level Secure (MLS) system, trusted subjects are granted privileges to perform operations that are not possible by ordinary subjects controlled by Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policy enforcement mechanisms. These subjects are trusted not to conduct malicious activity or degrade system security. The authors present a formal definition for trusted subject behaviors, which depends ...