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Every day, more users access services and electronically transmit information which is usually disseminated over insecure networks and processed by websites and databases, which lack proper security protection mechanisms and tools. This may have an impact on both the users’ trust as well as the reputation of the system’s stakeholders. Designing and implementing security enhanced systems is of vital importance. Therefore, this book aims to present a number of innovative security enhanced applications. It is titled “Security Enhanced Applications for Information Systems” and includes 11 chapters. This book is a quality guide for teaching purposes as well as for young researchers since it presents leading innovative contributions on security enhanced applications on various Information Systems. It involves cases based on the standalone, network and Cloud environments.

Cybernetics. --- Mechanical brains --- Control theory --- Electronics --- System theory --- Cybernetics & systems theory

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Physics --- Cybernetics --- Physique --- Cybernétique --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- nonlinear dynamics --- self-organization --- control --- bifurcations --- quantum --- Cybernetics. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Mechanical brains --- Control theory --- Electronics --- System theory --- Physics - General

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Not simply as an object but rather as an immersive agency in which nature, knowledge, technique merge. The transcendence of the actual and the virtual into a "third" element is construed and analyzed in this book through conceptual schemes that rely on a post-binary or non-binary understanding of coincidences, triangulations, hybrids, or post-human combinatorics. What is ultimately explored is how transcendence is ejected from strictly theological, philosophical, or scientific groundings and emerges as a germinating point of becoming (something else). Each of the contributions in this book addresses - through its own peculiar perspective, method and experimental style - a new way to approach the role of transcendence in socio-cultural life.In the Occidental history of ideas, the notion of transcendence has received at least three canonical articulations that are challenged by this book: religious (Judeo-Christian traditions), philosophical (Platonic-intellectual universality of ideas), and scientific (the objective and technological turn of knowledge). Nonetheless, it is with the rise of cybernetics, with its digital and virtual modalities of systems, networks, and knowledge, that our human environment emerges as a source of knowledge in itself --. Hephaestus Reloaded / Efesto Reloaded, presented in a bilingual (English/Italian) publication, and whose five authors are from Greece, Italy, and the US, invokes as its first inspiration the myth of Hephaestus who embodied a twofold entity: both disabled and technically capacious. The myth of Hephaestus has been passed across the centuries as an ancient metaphor signifying the idea of becoming-world, in which any distinction between the natural and the artificial, or the organic and the technical, is blurred. Human beings, by virtue of their physical vulnerabilities and limits, have enhanced their technological powers to the point of transcending their own given nature. At present, a variety of critical discourses in disciplines such as philosophy, history, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences pay attention to our becoming-hybrid (organic and mechanical beings) - unleashing a space for research that probes the concept of transcendence.-.

Literary essays --- Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology --- Cybernetics. --- Aesthetics. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Mechanical brains --- Control theory --- Electronics --- System theory --- Psychology --- Transcendence (Philosophy) --- technology --- posthumanism --- poetry --- cybernetics --- aesthetics --- transcendence --- becoming

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Medical innovations --- Biotechnology --- Nanotechnology --- Cybernetics --- Medecine --- Biotechnologie --- Nanotechnologie --- Cybernétique --- Social aspects. --- Innovations --- Aspect social --- 061 Ethische problemen --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophical anthropology --- Cybernétique --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology --- Society and medical innovations --- Mechanical brains --- Control theory --- Electronics --- System theory --- Social aspects

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Should people hardwire computers into their brains, enabling their minds to directly access cyberspace? What advantages and risks would this represent? Would this create a new humanity? These questions have been considered and discussed in science fiction for decades, but technology is beginning to make such developments seem remarkably plausible. This book examines what is currently taking place in this fast-developing sector of society while looking at future prospects. In so doing it seeks to integrate technological and scientific developments, political debate as well as philosophical interrogation while involving ethicists, policy makers, journalists, and practitioners. It is the first extensive study on a topic that is certain to significantly impact the 21st century and beyond. It opens the first door to this important debate.

Brain-computer interfaces. --- Human-computer interaction. --- Cybernetics --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- BCIs (Brain-computer interfaces) --- Brain-machine interfaces --- Computer-brain interfaces --- Direct neural interfaces --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Mechanical brains --- Control theory --- Electronics --- System theory --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- Philosophy --- Singularity --- Transhumanism --- Body modification --- Bioethics --- Public policy --- Moral philosophy --- Posthumanism