Guest Editors' Introduction

George O.M. Yee a,∗, Ali A. Ghorbani b and Patrick C.K. Hung c a Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Bldg. M-50, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6 E-mail: george.yee@nrc.ca b Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E-mail: ghorbani@unb.ca c Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street, North Oshawa, ON, Canada L1H 7K4 E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca

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