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Potential Impacts of a Growing Gap Between Theory and Practice in Information Security

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2005)

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We have seen an explosion in the number of: conferences and workshops on all aspects of information security, topics studied in this field, and papers published. At the same time we have only seen a few widely deployed applications of this research. Meanwhile, computers are becoming less secure and criminals are exploiting new tricks. So, there is clearly a gap between theory and practice in information security. In this paper we analyze it and discuss the potential impacts of this gap.

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  1. University College London, UK

    Yvo Desmedt

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  1. Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Qld 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Colin Boyd

  2. Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Juan Manuel González Nieto

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Desmedt, Y. (2005). Potential Impacts of a Growing Gap Between Theory and Practice in Information Security. In: Boyd, C., González Nieto, J.M. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11506157_44

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