Distributed Systems Security: Issues, Processes and Solutions

Anirban Chakrabarti holds a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University in Dec. 2003. Currently he works as a Senior Research Associate in the Grid Computing Focus Group in Software Engineering Technology Labs (SETLABS) of Infosys Technologies, India. In Infosys he is working on the virtualization techniques in the Grid Computing area. In Grid computing his main interests lie in security, manageability, workflow management, and application engineering issues. He is also interested in research in the areas of Internet infrastructure encompassing security, routing and multicasting.

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni is a Principal Researcher at Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) in Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. He heads the Web Services and SOA centre of excellence in SETLabs at Infosys. Dr. Srinivas specializes in Enterprise Security, Web services, Service Oriented Architecture and Grid technologies alongside pursuing interests in semantic web, autonomic computing, recovery oriented computing, intelligent agents, and enterprise architecture. He is on editorial board of international journals, and has served on program committees for several international conferences and workshops including ICWS (International Conference of Web Services), PricAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on AI), NWeSP (International Conferenceon Next Generation Web Services Practices).