Internet usage has become a facet of everyday life, especially as more technological advances have made it easier to connect to the web from virtually anywhere in the developed world. However, with this increased usage comes heightened threats to security within digital environments.

The Handbook of Research on Modern Cryptographic Solutions for Computer and Cyber Security identifies emergent research and techniques being utilized in the field of cryptology and cyber threat prevention. Featuring theoretical perspectives, best practices, and future research directions, this handbook of research is a vital resource for professionals, researchers, faculty members, scientists, graduate students, scholars, and software developers interested in threat identification and prevention.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Ad Hoc Network Security
Botnet Detection
Cyber Crime
Cyber Warfare
Defense Techniques
Forensic Tools
Visual Analytics
Wireless Security

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Computer scientists and engineers deal with different aspects of cyber-security, among them a new view of privacy in social networks: strengthening privacy during propagation, audio stego intrusion detection system through a hybrid neural tree model, security issues and countermeasures of online transactions in electronic commerce, provable security for public key crypto-systems: how to prove that the crypto-system is secure, and applying face recognition techniques in video for biometric security: a review of basic methods and emerging trends.

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B. B. Gupta received PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in the area of Information and Cyber Security. In 2009, he was selected for Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and awarded by Government of Canada Award. He spent more than six months in University of Saskatchewan (UofS), Canada. He has published more than 250 research papers in International Journals and Conferences of high repute including IEEE, Elsevier, ACM, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has visited several countries, i.e. Canada, Japan, USA, UK, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Spain, Italy, Australia, Hong-Kong, etc to present his research work. His biography was selected and published in the 30th Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2012. Dr, Gupta received International travel grant award from various organizations i.e. Microsoft Research (MSR) India, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) ($525), DST, Govt. of India (Young Scientist travel grant award), CSIR, IITR-heritage fund to attend various conferences and present his research work worldwide. He is also serving many journals as editorial board member and as member, international advisory board. Moreover, he is serving as reviewer for Journals of IEEE, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, etc. Dr Gupta is senior member of IEEE, member ACM, The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), Internet Society, Institute of Nanotechnology, Life Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Life Member, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT). He also worked as a post doctoral research fellow in UNB, Canada. He was also visiting researcher with Yamaguchi University, Japan in 2015 and with Guangzhou University, China in 2016, respectively. At present, Dr. Gupta is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (Institute of National Importance), India. His research interest includes Information security, Cyber Security, Mobile/Smartphone, Cloud Computing, Web security, Intrusion detection, Computer networks and Phishing.

Dharma P. Agrawal has been serving as the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems, University of Cincinnati, OH. He was a Visiting Professor of ECE at the Carnegie Mellon University, on sabbatical leave during the autumn 2006 and winter 2007 Quarters. He has been a faculty member at North Carolina State University, (1982- 1998) and Wayne State University, (1977-1982). He has been a consultant to the General Dynamics Land Systems Division, Battelle, Inc., and the U. S. Army. He has held visiting appointments at AIRMICS, Atlanta, GA, and the AT&T Advanced Communications Laboratory, Whippany, NJ. He has published a number of papers in the areas of Parallel System Architecture, Multicomputer Networks, Routing Techniques, Parallelism Detection and Scheduling Techniques, Reliability of Real-Time Distributed Systems, Modeling of C-MOS Circuits, and Computer Arithmetic. His recent research interests include applications of sensor networks in monitoring Parkinson’s disease patients and neurosis, applications of sensor networks in monitoring fitness of athletes’ personnel wellness, applications of sensor networks in monitoring firefighters physical condition in action, efficient secured communication in Sensor networks, secured group communication in Vehicular Networks, use of Femto cells in LTE technology and interference issues, heterogeneous wireless networks, and resource allocation and security in mesh networks for 4G technology. He has eight approved patents, one personal pending patent and twenty four patent filings in the area of wireless cellular networks. He received B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India, in 1966, M.S. (Honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 1968, and the D. Sc. Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1975. He has been very active professionally. He has co-authored several books and delivered keynote speeches at 40 different international conferences. He has published 675 papers, given 57 different tutorials and extensive training courses in various conferences in USA, and numerous institutions in Taiwan, Korea, Jordan, UAE, Malaysia, and India in the areas of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks and Mesh Networks, including security issues. He has been appointed as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Central European Journal of Computer Science, Versita.

Shingo Yamaguchi is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Japan. He received the B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees from Yamaguchi University, Japan, in 1992, 1994 and 2002, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor (Research Associate) in the Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, from 1997 to 2007. He was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago, United States, in 2007. Since 2008 he has been at the present post. He has published almost 100 transaction, proceeding, and survey papers of IEEE, IEICE, and so on. He was a Conference Chair of IEEE international conferences such as GCCE 2014 and GCCE 2015. He is currently the Chapter Chair of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society West Japan Joint Chapter. He is an Area Editor of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEICE.

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