IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Communications Multimedia Security II

In multimedia and communication environments all documents must be protected against attacks. The required security can be achieved by a number of different security measures. This volume contains the selected proceedings of the joint conference on Communications and Multimedia Security; An overview of the current research in multimedia and communication security. This text covers a variety of subjects including: network security; attacks; cryptographic techniques; healthcare and telemedicine; security infrastructures; payment systems; access control; models and policies; and auditing and firewalls. This volume contains the selected proceedings of the joint conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and supported by the Austrian Computer Society, Gesellschaft fur Informatik e V and TeleTrust Deutschland e V. The conference took place in Essen, Germany, in September 1996. All those working and interested in information security will find this book invaluable, especially engineers, computer scientists, students and those involved in research and development. This book should be of interest to engineers for IT companies, all businesses using IT, researchers in the IT industry, banks, building societies, anyone interested in Information Security. Also students studying IT and business.