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Port scanning is the process of attempting to connect to various network ports on a computing endpoint to determine which ports are open and which services are running on them. It is a common method used by hackers to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jason M. Pittman

Network robustness is an essential system property to sustain functionality in the face of failures or targeted attacks. Currently, only the connectivity of the nodes unaffected by an attack is utilized to assess robustness. We propose to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-18 Marcus Engsig , Alejandro Tejedor , Yamir Moreno

Model checking is a widespread automatic formal analysis that has been successful in discovering flaws in security protocols. However existing possibilities for state space explosion still hinder analyses of complex protocols and protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-02 Stylianos Basagiannis , Panagiotis Katsaros , Andrew Pombortsis

The rapid growth of connected devices has led to the proliferation of novel cyber-security threats known as zero-day attacks. Traditional behaviour-based IDS rely on DNN to detect these attacks. The quality of the dataset used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Othmane Belarbi , Aftab Khan , Pietro Carnelli , Theodoros Spyridopoulos

The augmentation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices transformed both automation and connectivity but revealed major security vulnerabilities in networks. We address these challenges by designing a robust intrusion detection system (IDS) to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Karma Gurung , Ashutosh Ghimire , Fathi Amsaad

Along with the development of intelligent manufacturing, especially with the high connectivity of the industrial control system (ICS), the network security of ICS becomes more important. And in recent years, there has been much research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yang Li , Shihao Wu , Quan Pan

Labeled data sets are necessary to train and evaluate anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems. This work provides a focused literature survey of data sets for network-based intrusion detection and describes the underlying packet-…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Markus Ring , Sarah Wunderlich , Deniz Scheuring , Dieter Landes , Andreas Hotho

A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is a tool that identifies potential threats to a network. Recently, different flow-based NIDS designs utilizing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been proposed as solutions to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Loc Gia Nguyen , Kohei Watabe

An intrusion detection system framework using mobile agents is a layered framework mechanism designed to support heterogeneous network environments to identify intruders at its best. Traditional computer misuse detection techniques can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 N. Jaisankar , R. Saravanan , K. Durai Swamy

Penetration testing is an essential means of proactive defense in the face of escalating cybersecurity incidents. Traditional manual penetration testing methods are time-consuming, resource-intensive, and prone to human errors. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yunfei Ge , Quanyan Zhu

Deepfakes - manipulated or forged audio and video media - pose significant security risks to individuals, organizations, and society at large. To address these challenges, machine learning-based classifiers are commonly employed to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nicolas Müller , Piotr Kawa , Adriana Stan , Thien-Phuc Doan , Souhwan Jung , Wei Herng Choong , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Penetration Testing plays a critical role in evaluating the security of a target network by emulating real active adversaries. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is seen as a promising solution to automating the process of penetration tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yizhou Yang , Xin Liu

The paper examines quantitative assessment of wireless distribution system security, as well as an assessment of risks from attacks and security violations. Furthermore, it describes typical security breach and formal attack models and five…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Volodymyr Buriachok , Volodymyr Sokolov , Pavlo Skladannyi

Todays industrial control systems consist of tightly coupled components allowing adversaries to exploit security attack surfaces from the information technology side, and, thus, also get access to automation devices residing at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Mukund Bhole , Wolfgang Kastner , Thilo Sauter

With the increasing amount of reliance on digital data and computer networks by corporations and the public in general, the occurrence of cyber attacks has become a great threat to the normal functioning of our society. Intrusion detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-07 José Carneiro , Nuno Oliveira , Norberto Sousa , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

As network attacks have increased in number and severity over the past few years, intrusion detection system (IDS) is increasingly becoming a critical component to secure the network. Due to large volumes of security audit data as well as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Huy Nguyen , Deokjai Choi

Penetration testing is a security exercise aimed at assessing the security of a system by simulating attacks against it. So far, penetration testing has been carried out mainly by trained human attackers and its success critically depended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Fabio Massimo Zennaro , Laszlo Erdodi

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are integral to safeguarding networks by detecting and responding to threats from malicious traffic or compromised devices. However, standalone IDS deployments often fall short when addressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tom Davies , Max Hashem Eiza , Nathan Shone , Rob Lyon

Growing number of network devices and services have led to increasing demand for protective measures as hackers launch attacks to paralyze or steal information from victim systems. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Hyeokmin Gwon , Chungjun Lee , Rakun Keum , Heeyoul Choi