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<p>In light of the rapidly escalating age of uncertainty in the IT security and privacy world, this book provides the professional IT community and, in particular, security and data protection experts and researchers, with a selection of state-of-the-art material on emerging technologies for IT security and privacy issues. Furthermore, the book analyzes the new security threats and vulnerabilities that appear in modern information societies. </p> <p>Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty covers issues related to security and privacy of information in a wide range of applications including: <br>*Secure Networks and Distributed Systems; <br>*Secure Multicast Communication and Secure Mobile Networks; <br>*Intrusion Prevention and Detection; <br>*Access Control Policies and Models; <br>*Security Protocols; <br>*Security and Control of IT in Society. </p>This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Information Security (SEC2003) and at the associated workshops. The conference and workshops were sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Athens, Greece in May 2003.