This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2013, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2013. The 20 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers address theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas.

This Festschrift is in honor of Sushil Jajodia, Professor in the George Mason University, USA, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. This book contains papers written in honor of Sushil Jajodia, of his vision and his achievements. Sushil has sustained a highly active research agenda spanning several important areas in computer security and privacy, and established himself as a leader in the security research community through unique scholarship and service. He has extraordinarily impacted the scientific and academic community, opening and pioneering new directions of research, and significantly influencing the research and development of security solutions worldwide. Also, his excellent record of research funding shows his commitment to sponsored research and the practical impact of his work. The research areas presented in this Festschrift include membrane computing, spiking neural networks, phylogenetic networks, ant colonies optimization, work bench for bio-computing, reaction systems, entropy of computation, rewriting systems, and insertion-deletion systems.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops held at the 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, SpaCCS 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016: the 7th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data, TrustData 2016; the 6th International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Emerging Applications, TSP 2016; the 4th International Workshop on Network Optimization and Performance Evaluation, NOPE 2016; the Second International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, DependSys 2016; the Annual Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Workshop, BigDataSPT 2016; and the First International Workshop on Cloud Storage Service and Computing, WCSSC 2016. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers deal with research findings, ideas and emerging trends in information security research and cover a broad range of topics in security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, SpaCCS 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016. The 40 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They are organized in topical sections including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2013, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2013. The 30 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. In addition the book contains 6 workshop papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: data and applications security; network and communications security; software and systems security; and cloud security and cyberspace safety.