IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) is an academic journal published by IEEE. (ISSN 1545-5971, impact factor 7.5, CCF A).
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
I. Design for Dependability and Security
Architectures
Fault-tolerant, secure, and safe middleware
Intrusion detection and tolerance
Firewall technologies; authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
Network technologies, including protocols, routers, and switches
On-line detection and recovery
System Management and Administration
Cryptography
Application of cryptography techniques
Key management
Cryptographic protocols and algorithms, and their security
Use of COTS components
II. Evaluation
Modeling and Prediction
Threat-assessment and intrusion-detection models
Availability, performability, and survivability
Intrusion tolerance; attack models
Modeling methods, including Markov chains, queuing/fluid flow, Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN), SAN models
Experimental Methods
Monitoring and measurement
Workload characterization
Benchmarking
Test-bed design, including fault, error, attack, and workload generation
Field monitoring and measurement, including failures, security violations and break-ins, and intrusion detection
Statistical methods
Formal Specification and Verification
Quality of Service (encompassing performability, security, and safety)
III. Application-Specific Areas
Survivable Database Design and Transaction Processing
Electronic Commerce
Embedded Systems
File and File System Security
Distributed and Pervasive Systems
Smartcards and Biometrics
Real-Time Systems
Safety-Critical Systems (e.g., aerospace computing)
Internet Applications
Multimedia Applications and Signal-Processing
IV. Software Design
Operating System Support (for error/intrusion detection and/or tolerance)
Self-Checking Software Systems
Dependable, Secure Protocols and Network Interfaces
Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
Software Aging and Rejuvenation
Software Security and Reliability Engineering
V. New Technologies (problems and opportunities)
Nanoscale Computing
Ad Hoc Networks
Pervasive and Embedded Computing
Networks of Satellites
Data Mining
Wearable Computers and Associated Networks
Quantum Computing
Cyber-Physical Systems (e.g., mobile health, Smart Grid, and ITS)
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