This updated edition will help IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets. It contains major updates and three new chapters. The book uniquely bridges the gap between information security, information systems security and information warfare. It re-examines why organizations need to take information assurance seriously.

This book contains the First European Conference on Computer Network Defence to take place in December 2005 at the School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, in the UK.

The theme of the conference is the protection of computer networks. The conference has drawn participants from national and international organisations.

The following are a list of topics amongst those discussed: Computer Network Operations, Computer Network Attack, Network Application Security, Web Security, Vulnerability Management and Tracking, Network Forensics, Wireless and Mobile Security, Cryptography, Network Discovery and Mapping, Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Incident Response and Management, Malicious Software, Network Architectures and Management, Legal and Ethical Issues.

The papers presented include contributions from leading figures in the field and are a valuable source of reference for both researcher and practitioner.

This book contains the proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer Network Defence, which took place in December 2006. The conference focused on the protection of computer networks and attracted participants from national and international organisations. The papers collected in this book include contributions from leading figures in the field and are a valuable source of reference for both researcher and practitioner.

Despite being described as 'a remarkably successful partnership' by John Howard and a 'triumph of trust' by his counterpart, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the art of coalition government is a delicate (and sometimes difficult) balancing of policy, politics and personalities. The relationship between the Liberal and Nationals parties ensured the Howard Government's stability and provided a solid foundation for its legislative program between 1996 and 2007. While the Coalition partnership has been pivotal to Australian politics since the Second World War, under the Howard prime ministership - despite occasional tensions - the two parties changed key aspects of Australian life through gun control, telecommunications and taxation reform, and balancing the budget. In The Art of Coalition, Joel Fitzgibbon, Zareh Ghazarian, Tom Frame, Linda Courtenay Botterill, Paul Davey, Tony Abbott and others convey the complexities of maintaining a strong political partnership, and the importance of trust in an effective coalition.