Security and the World Wide Web

Abstract

With the explosion of data and information on the world wide web (WWW), it is critical that this information be protected to provide privacy to the individuals and organizations. Furthermore, while various tools such as data mining tools and information extraction tools are very useful to extract information from the WWW, they are also becoming a problem to the security and privacy of data on the web. Security and privacy concerns include both technical issues and policy issues. First of all security polices should provide guidance as to what data should and can be placed on the web. Then technology should provide access control to the data. The panel will explore both policy and technology issues for security and privacy on WWW. The panelists are the following.