A Holistic Framework for Safeguarding of SMEs-A Case Study
Abstract
The rapid digitalisation of SMEs, further expedited as a business continuity measure against Covid19 impact, has brought along major cybersecurity challenges, as it creates a fertile landscape for malicious actors, that want to capitalise on the insufficient cybersecurity planning and preparedness of SMEs to conduct low-effort, lucrative attacks. This paper constitutes a case study on the cybersecurity challenges, specificities and the safeguarding of the ATracker, a real-life data collection and analytics engine developed by the SME Suite5. The ATracker has been successfully protected against attacks in conjunction with the PUZZLE Framework, a holistic policy-based cybersecurity solution, addressing major cybersecurity pillars and leveraging on the latest scientific advancements in cybersecurity research.
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@article{arxiv.2306.00136,
title = {A Holistic Framework for Safeguarding of SMEs-A Case Study},
author = {Nefeli Bountouni and Sotiris Koussouris and Alexandros Vasileiou and Stylianos A. Kazazis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00136},
year = {2023}
}
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A modified version of this work has been submitted to the Workshop IOSEC 2023 in the context of the 2023 19th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) and published in IEEE Xplore