1. Guest Editorial: Secur(e/ity) Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin

   • John Hale
   • Paul J. Brusil

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 8

2. Secure Network Management Within an Open-Source Mobile Agent Framework

   • Andreas Pashalidis
   • Martin Fleury

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 31

3. Combinatorial Optimization of Group Key Management

   • Mohamed Eltoweissy
   • M. Hossain Heydari
   • I. Hal Sudborough

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 50

4. Detecting Network Attacks in the Internet via Statistical Network Traffic Normality Prediction

   • Jun Jiang
   • Symeon Papavassiliou

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 72

5. Distributed Management Architecture for Cooperative Detection and Reaction to DDoS Attacks

   • G. Koutepas
   • F. Stamatelopoulos
   • B. Maglaris

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 94

6. Optimizing the Scalability of Network Intrusion Detection Systems Using Mobile Agents

   • Donald G. Marks
   • Peter Mell
   • Michael Stinson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 110

7. Tracing DDoS Floods: An Automated Approach

   • Udaya Kiran Tupakula
   • Vijay Varadharajan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 135

8. Report: Security Management Convergence via SIM (Security Information Management)—A Requirements Perspective

   • Diana Kelley

   BriefCommunication Pages: 137 - 144

9. Forthcoming Contributions

   Table of Contents Pages: 145 - 145