Financial IT and Security

Due to the development of wire/wireless internet technology, various on-line financial transaction services are introduced and the numbers of transaction are increasing also with the technology. However, since new attacking methods which interrupt normal financial transactions (phishing, keyboard information hacking, memory leakage, network channel hooking etc.) appear, they have become obstacles on the development of financial transactions which considers the importance of trustmore than any other on-line services. New security technology andmanagement system in terms of user identification and authentication, financial transaction denial prevention, and guarantee etc. are developed tominimize such on-line financial transaction damages. In this special issue, we have reviewed research trends regarding financial IT security technology and management system which should guarantee trust more than financial transactions. Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited.