Editorial

This issue of JIW consists of papers predominantly from Australian contributors. There has been a special issue from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, and the intention is that further issues will highlight research in the United Kingdom, and the National Defense University in Washington . Most issues are generic but special issues do give a forum to display research from specific sources.

The first paper from Yek examines the use of deception in network security. She posits some models to explain deception in this context. Next Kopp investigates air warfare in this age of information dominance. The reviewers had some difficulties with this submission. Whilst recognizing that it was a good paper, some thought that it was on the periphery of the journal’s scope of interest. However, it was decided that it would be of interest to our readership. The third paper comes from Ahmad et al who examine the topic of Critical Infrastructure Protection and the importance of protecting information relating to the engineering aspects of critical systems. The last offering from the Australian contributors comes from Woodward who examines the vulnerability of wireless systems especially at Layers 1 and 2 – certainly a topical subject.

The last paper is one that should have been published in the last issue. It is from Elovici and Glezer who examine ways of staying anonymous on the Web.  This is a topic of relevance in this age of high levels of surveillance.

Please keep on sending in your papers. We will try to process them as quickly as possible, although there are often hold ups in the process. However, we try to keep to the publishing dates. In fact, this issue should have had a few more papers but the final papers were not received on time. It was thought prudent to publish on time rather than wait.

Bill Hutchinson

November, 2004

Table Of Contents

Paper 1: Understanding the Application of Deception in Network Security

S. Yek

Paper 2: Reflections on Information Age Air Warfare

C. Kopp

Paper 3: On the Importance of Protecting Critical Infrastructure related Engineering Descriptor Information (CIEDI)

A. Ahmad, H.Fah, T. Ruighaver, W.T. Teo

Paper 4: An Analysis of Current 802.11 Wireless Network Layer One and Two Attacks and Possible Preventative Measures

A. Woodward

Paper 5: Anonymity Enhancing Technologies (AET):  Opportunities and Threats

Y. Elovici, C. Glezer

About the Authors

Atif Ahmad is a member of the Computer Security and Forensics Group based at the University of Melbourne . He is a cyber security consultant for Worley and Pinkerton. Atif’s primary interest is in cyber aspects of Critical Infrastrastructure Protection where he  has both worked as a consultant as well as conducted research. Atif is a Certified Protection  Professional (CPP) with ASIS International.

Yuval Elovici is head of the Software Engineering program at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel . He holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Tel-Aviv University, Israel; and both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main areas of interest are information warfare, computer and network security, internet security, information economics, and information retrieval.

Hans Fah is former member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and has been an adviser to the private sector in the disciplines of Crisis, Emergency and Security Risk Management for 13 years. Hans’ experience ranges from security consulting to resource extraction operations in emerging or troubled nations, maritime security, blast mitigation and the implementation of anti terrorism programs in the Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Iraq through to the development of complex Critical Infrastructure Protection methodologies and tools. Hans is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) with ASIS International of which he is the Victorian State Secretary, holds a diploma in security risk management and is a full member of the Australian Institute for Professional Intelligence Officers.

Chanan Glezer is a lecturer at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel . He holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Texas Tech University . His main areas of interest are: electronic-commerce, organizational computing and Internet security. His research has been published in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering and the Journal of Medical Systems.

 Carlo Kopp, MIEEE, MAIAA, PEng Carlo attended the University of Western Australia , and graduated in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours, in 1984. He completed a research Masters in Computer Science in 1996, and a PhD in 1999 at Monash University in Melbourne . His other research interests include air warfare strategy, doctrine and information warfare. Carlo maintains his registration as a professional engineer.

 A. B. Ruighaver is the head of the Computer Security and Forensics Group based  at the University of Melbourne . He is the coordinator of a new E-crime course conducted as part of a collaboration between Melbourne University and Victoria Police. Dr. Ruighaver’s primary interests are in Security Governance and Computer Forensics.

Wee Teck Teo is a tutor for the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne . He graduated last year with a B. Information Systems and is currently a research assistant with the department’s Computer Security and Forensics Group.

Andrew Woodward is a lecturer in wireless networking with the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University . Andrew has presented papers in wireless network security and wireless security management. Current areas of research include wireless 802.11 vulnerabilities, RFID tags, intrusion detection, wireless honeypots and computer clustering.

Suen Yek is a postgraduate student in the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth . She holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and B.Bus. (Marketing) and in the last two years has focused her research on honeypots. Current research involves wireless honeypots utilising deception strategies for network defence.