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Some contemporary issues in data security: privacy in genetic databases and security of mobile agents

Време13. септембар 2004. 15:00
Предавачdr Ljiljana Branković, mr Mousa Alfalayleh, University of Newcastle, Australia
МестоETF, sala 61

With the recent advances in computer and network technology enormous databases containing personal information have become available for statistical analysis and data mining. This has brought privacy issues in the lime light of the general public. Many agree that genetic information bears more ethical and privacy concerns than other databases with personal information and there is a growing fear that human genome research will lead to discrimination by, for example, employers and insurance companies. In this talk we review the main privacy and ethical issues associated with genetic information and we focus on a disclosure of individual values through statistical analysis.

Mobile agents are programs that travel autonomously through a computer network in order to perform some computation or gather information on behalf of a human user or an application. In the last several years, mobile agents have found numerous applications including e-commerce. In most applications, the security of mobile agents is of the utmost importance. In this talk we give an overview of the main security issues related to the mobile agent paradigm, including security threats, requirements, and techniques for keeping the mobile agent platform and the agent itself secure against each other.