Developing Secure Distributed Systems with CORBA

This new book is a clearly written, well structured guide to building secure distributed applications with CORBA. It helps securing CORBA applications, integrating security infrastructure with CORBA applications, and evaluating the security effectiveness of distributed applications. You get a comprehensive study of the CORBA security architecture, providing you with a better understanding of its goals and limitations. It serves as your complete reference for understanding security in distributed systems.

Ulrich Lang, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, co-founder and Research Director of ObjectSecurity Ltd., received his M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway College, at the University of London. Before that, he studied computer science with management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Rudolf Schreiner, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of ObjectSecurity Ltd., a consultancy specialized in distributed systems security, received his Dipl.-Phys. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany) in 1993. Before his career at ObjectSecurity Ltd., he worked as a freelance programmer and consultant on various computer security projects.