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Power electronics systems are increasingly exposed to cyber threats due to their integration with digital controllers and communication networks. However, an attacker-oriented metric is still lacking to quantify the extent to which a node…

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In the wake of the arrival of digital media, the Internet, the web, and online social media, a flood of new cyber security research questions have emerged. There is a lot of money being lost around the world because of cyber-attacks. As a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kashif Ishaq , Sidra Fareed

We review the current status and research challenges in the area of cyber security often called continuous monitoring and risk scoring (CMRS). We focus on two most salient aspects of CMRS. First, continuous collection of data through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Alexander Kott , Curtis Arnold

Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure have been an issue of importance in industry over the past several years, as well as a focus of academic research. Cyber attacks of various types and magnitude have been on the rise targeted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-19 James Christopher Foreman , Dheeraj Gurugubelli

The Internet of things (IoT) is still in its infancy and has attracted much interest in many industrial sectors including medical fields, logistics tracking, smart cities and automobiles. However as a paradigm, it is susceptible to a range…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Elike Hodo , Xavier Bellekens , Andrew Hamilton , Pierre-louis Dubouilh , Ephraim Iorkyase , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

Cyberspace is full of uncertainty in terms of advanced and sophisticated cyber threats which are equipped with novel approaches to learn the system and propagate themselves, such as AI-powered threats. To debilitate these types of threats,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Hooman Alavizadeh , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Simon Yusuf Enoch , Harith Al-Sahaf , Ian Welch , Seyit A. Camtepe , Dong Seong Kim

There are two strategic and longstanding questions about cyber risk that organizations largely have been unable to answer: What is an organization's estimated risk exposure and how does its security compare with peers? Answering both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Taylor Reynolds , Sarah Scheffler , Daniel J. Weitzner , Angelina Wu

Access to the cloud has the potential to provide scalable and cost effective enhancements of physical devices through the use of advanced computational processes run on apparently limitless cyber infrastructure. On the other hand,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Jeffrey Pawlick , Sadegh Farhang , Quanyan Zhu

This article analyzes trust and security in computing and communications systems. While in human-life, trust usually has some kind of commonly understood meaning, in the realm of computing and communications systems, it could be interpreted…

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In recent times we hear increasingly often about cyber attacks on various commercial and strategic sites that manage to escape any defense. In this article, we model such attacks on networks via stochastic processes and predict the time of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Jewgeni H. Dshalalow , Ryan T. White

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a major cybersecurity challenge due to their stealth and ability to mimic normal system behavior, making detection particularly difficult in highly imbalanced datasets. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) evolve through multiple stages, each exhibiting distinct temporal and structural behaviors. Accurate stage estimation is critical for enabling adaptive cyber defense. This paper presents StageFinder, a…

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The vulnerability of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) against adversarial disturbances and attacks significantly restricts their applicability in safety-critical systems including cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Xiaodong Yang , Taylor T. Johnson

Nowadays, companies are highly exposed to cyber security threats. In many industrial domains, protective measures are being deployed and actively supported by standards. However the global process remains largely dependent on document…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Christophe Ponsard

This paper presents a comparative survey of cyberthreat and attack trends starting from 2010 till date Cyber security breaches are constantly on the rise with huge uncertainty and risks The trend is causing rife globally because of its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Uwazie Emmanuel Chinanu , Oluyemi Amujo

Active cyber defenses based on temporal platform diversity have been proposed as way to make systems more resistant to attacks. These defenses change the properties of the platforms in order to make attacks more complicated. Unfortunately,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Kevin M. Carter , Hamed Okhravi , James Riordan

A significant limitation of current cyber security research and techniques is its reactive and applied nature. This leads to a continuous 'cyber cycle' of attackers scanning networks, developing exploits and attacking systems, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Michael D. Adams , Seth D. Hitefield , Bruce Hoy , Michael C. Fowler , T. Charles Clancy

A wide variety of privacy metrics have been proposed in the literature to evaluate the level of protection offered by privacy enhancing-technologies. Most of these metrics are specific to concrete systems and adversarial models, and are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-14 David Rebollo-Monedero , Javier Parra-Arnau , Claudia Diaz , Jordi Forné

The promise of quantum computing is not speeding up conventional computing rather delivering an exponential advantage for certain classes of problems, with profound implications for cybersecurity for instance. With the advent and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Md Jobair Hossain Faruk , Sharaban Tahora , Masrura Tasnim , Hossain Shahriar , Nazmus Sakib