To indicate which areas are targeted by the SENTINELS program
we adopt the model from Ross Anderson's recent textbook on Security
Engineering [2]. This gives a broad coverage of topics ranging
from Cryptology to Physical Tamper resistance, and from Nuclear Command
and Control to E-Policy. Work in many other areas has important
relations with security, for example safety critical systems engineers
employ similar methods and technologies to engineers in security
critical systems. Therefore the cross fertilization of safety and
security engineering would be a fruitful topic of study. Similarly,
fault-tolerance is an active area of research that is relevant when
deployed to avoid denial of service attacks (i.e. increase
availability).
We discuss briefly some of the problems facing security researchers,
then we provide a short reminder of the most important security
objectives and present some partial solutions to the problems listed
earlier. SENTINELS aims to contribute to more complete and
overarching solutions of the given problems.
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