Motivations. - Why to adopt a security metric? A brief survey. - Service-oriented Assurance Comprehensive Security by Explicit Assurances. - Measurements: Reliability vs Security. - Software Security Growth Modeling: Examining Vulnerabilities with Reliability Growth Models. - A Discrete Lognormal Model for Software Defects Affecting Quality of Protection. - Time-to-Compromise Model for Cyber Risk Reduction Estimation. - Assessing the risk of using vulnerable components. - Collection and analysis of attack data based on honeypots deployed on the Internet. - Quantitative Security Models. - Multilevel Security and Quality of Protection. - A Conceptual Model for Service Availability. - A SLA evaluation methodology in Service Oriented Architectures. - Towards a Notion of Quantitative Security Analysis. - Metrics for Anonymity and Confidentiality. - The Lower Bound of Attacks on Anonymity Systems A Unicity Distance Approach. - Intersection Attacks on Web-Mixes: Bringing the Theory into Praxis. - Using Guesswork as a Measure for Confidentiality of Selectively Encrypted Messages. - Measuring Inference Exposure in Outsourced Encrypted Databases. Language: English