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Cybercriminal profiling and cyber-attack attribution have been elusive goals world-wide, due to their effects on societal and geopolitical balance and stability. Attributing actions to a group or state is a complex endeavour, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Konstantinos Mersinas , Aimee Liu , Niki Panteli

The ability to analyze network threats is very important in security research. Traditional approaches, involving sandboxing technology are limited to simulating a single host, missing local network attacks. This issue is addressed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Francisc Moldovan , Ciprian Oprisa

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers theoretically unbreakable security by leveraging quantum mechanics. However, practical implementation is challenged by environmental vulnerabilities, noise, and hardware imperfections. Recently, Machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ali Al-Kuwari , Safaa Alqrinawi , Lujayn Al-Amir , Amina Mollazehi , Saif Al-Kuwari

This paper examines how Canadian firms balance the benefits of technology adoption against the rising risk of cyber security breaches. We merge data from the 2021 Canadian Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use and the 2021 Canadian…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-28 Joann Jasiak , Peter MacKenzie , Purevdorj Tuvaandorj

Development of sustainable insurance for cyber risks, with associated benefits, inter alia requires reduction of ambiguity of the risk. Considering cyber risk, and data breaches in particular, as a man-made catastrophe clarifies the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-17 Spencer Wheatley , Annette Hofmann , Didier Sornette

As quantum computing continues to advance, its ability to compromise widely used cryptographic systems projects a significant challenge to modern cybersecurity. This paper outlines a strategic roadmap for industries to anticipate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Arit Kumar Bishwas , Mousumi Sen

The valuation of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) remains a persistent challenge due to the problem of negative evidence: successful threat prevention results in non-events that generate minimal observable financial impact, making CTI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Matteo Strada

Classically, risk is characterized by a point value probability indicating the likelihood of occurrence of an adverse effect. However, there are domains where the attainability of objective numerical risk characterizations is increasingly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Paul J. Krause , John Fox , Philip Judson

We propose a framework for cyber risk assessment and mitigation which models attackers as formal planners and defenders as interdicting such plans. We illustrate the value of plan interdiction problems by first modeling network cyber risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Michael Pritchard

Many domains now leverage the benefits of Machine Learning (ML), which promises solutions that can autonomously learn to solve complex tasks by training over some data. Unfortunately, in cyberthreat detection, high-quality data is hard to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tobias Braun , Irdin Pekaric , Giovanni Apruzzese

Cybersecurity is a big challenge as hackers are always trying to find new methods to attack and exploit system vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity threats and risks have increased in recent years, due to the increasing number of devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ihab Mohamed , Hesham A. Hefny , Nagy R. Darwish

Cybersecurity is the security cornerstone of digital transformation of the power grid and construction of new power systems. The traditional network security situation quantification method only analyzes from the perspective of network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Quande Yuan , Yuzhen Pi , Lei Kou , Fangfang Zhang , Bo Ye

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

Cyber insurance is a key component in risk management, intended to transfer risks and support business recovery in the event of a cyber incident. As cyber insurance is still a new concept in practice and research, there are many unanswered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jason R. C. Nurse , Louise Axon , Arnau Erola , Ioannis Agrafiotis , Michael Goldsmith , Sadie Creese

While regulators advocate for higher cloud transparency, many Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often do not provide detailed information regarding their security implementations in their Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In practice, CSPs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Ahmed Taha , Spyros Boukoros , Jesus Luna , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Neeraj Suri

These days, cyber-criminals target humans rather than machines since they try to accomplish their malicious intentions by exploiting the weaknesses of end users. Thus, human vulnerabilities pose a serious threat to the security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dimitra Papatsaroucha , Yannis Nikoloudakis , Ioannis Kefaloukos , Evangelos Pallis , Evangelos K. Markakis

With the rapid growth of mobile applications and cloud computing, mobile cloud computing has attracted great interest from both academia and industry. However, mobile cloud applications are facing security issues such as data integrity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Diep Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz

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

Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers a practical solution for secure communication between two distinct parties via a quantum channel and an authentic public channel. In this work, we consider different approaches to the quantum bit error…

The cybersecurity technological landscape is a complex ecosystem in which entities -- such as companies and technologies -- influence each other in a non-trivial manner. Measuring the influence between entities is a tenet for informed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Anita Mezzetti , Dimitri Percia David , Thomas Maillart , Michael Tsesmelis , Alain Mermoud