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The rise of autonomous AI agents and the accelerating velocity of corporate data access are stretching the application-centric model of zero trust security to its breaking point. This paper introduces Beyond Zero, a new security paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Joseph Valente , Michal Zalewski

Security provisioning has become the most important design consideration for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems due to their critical roles to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogenous devices, machines and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 He Fang , Angie Qi , Xianbin Wang

Traditional static cybersecurity models often struggle with scalability, real-time detection, and contextual responsiveness in the current digital product ecosystems which include cloud services, application programming interfaces (APIs),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Oluwakemi T. Olayinka , Sumeet Jeswani , Divine Iloh

Zero Trust (ZT) is a security paradigm aiming to curtail an attacker's lateral movements within a network by implementing least-privilege and per-request access control policies. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Charalampos Katsis , Elisa Bertino

As AI systems increasingly influence critical decisions, they face threats that exploit reasoning mechanisms rather than technical infrastructure. We present a framework for cognitive cybersecurity, a systematic protection of AI reasoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yuksel Aydin

One of the most promising applications of the IoT is the Smart Grid (SG). Integrating SG's data communications network into the power grid allows gathering and analyzing information from power lines, distribution power stations, and end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mohammad Ali Alipour , Saeid Ghasemshirazi , Ghazaleh Shirvani

Traditional threat modeling occurs during design, but cloud deployments introduce unanticipated threats, especially multi-stage attacks chaining vulnerabilities across trust boundaries. Existing security tools analyze components in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Nicholas Pecka , Lotfi Ben Othmane , Bharat Bhargava , Renee Bryce

Autonomous AI agents powered by large language models are being deployed in production with capabilities including shell execution, file system access, database queries, and multi-party communication. Recent red teaming research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Saikat Maiti

Micro-segmentation as a core requirement of zero trust architecture (ZTA) divides networks into small security zones, called micro-segments, thereby minimizing impact of security breaches and restricting lateral movement of attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Muhammad Liman Gambo , Ahmad Almulhem

The evolution of cybersecurity has spurred the emergence of autonomous threat hunting as a pivotal paradigm in the realm of AI-driven threat intelligence. This review navigates through the intricate landscape of autonomous threat hunting,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Siva Raja Sindiramutty

We introduce a method for Intrusion Detection based on the classification, understanding and prediction of behavioural deviance and potential threats, issuing recommendations, and acting to address eminent issues. Our work seeks a practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Kleber Vieira , Fernando Koch , Joao Bosco Mangueira Sobral , Carlos Becker Westphall , Jorge Lopes de Souza Leao

The modern enterprise is facing an unprecedented surge in digital identities, with machine identities now significantly outnumbering human identities. This paper examines the cybersecurity risks emerging from what we define as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kush Janani

Imagine receiving a video call from your CFO, surrounded by colleagues, asking you to urgently authorise a confidential transfer. You comply. Every person on that call was fake, and you just lost $25 million. This is not a hypothetical. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Muhammad Tahir Ashraf

Recent advances in AI are transforming AI's ubiquitous presence in our world from that of standalone AI-applications into deeply integrated AI-agents. These changes have been driven by agents' increasing capability to autonomously make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jose Sanchez Vicarte , Marcin Spoczynski , Mostafa Elsaid

An access control model called Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) has attracted attention. ZTA uses information of users and devices, called context, for authentication and authorization. Zero Trust Federation (ZTF) has been proposed as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Masato Hirai , Daisuke Kotani , Yasuo Okabe

This review discusses the theoretical frameworks and application prospects of Zero Trust Security (ZTS) in cloud computing context. This is because, as organisations move more of their applications and data to the cloud, the old…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ganiyu Oladimeji

Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, primarily designed for human users or static machine identities via protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML, prove fundamentally inadequate for the dynamic,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ken Huang , Vineeth Sai Narajala , John Yeoh , Jason Ross , Ramesh Raskar , Youssef Harkati , Jerry Huang , Idan Habler , Chris Hughes

Immersive technologies, including augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR) devices, have enhanced digital communication along with a considerable increase in digital threats. Thus, authentication becomes critical in AR & VR technology,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Reyhan Duezguen , Peter Mayer , Sanchari Das , Melanie Volkamer

AI agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex enterprise workflows, yet evidence of their effectiveness in identity governance is limited. We report results from the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating an AI agent…

General Economics · Economics 2025-11-19 James Bono , Beibei Cheng , Joaquin Lozano

Computer Use Agents (CUAs), autonomous systems that interact with software interfaces via browsers or virtual machines, are rapidly being deployed in consumer and enterprise environments. These agents introduce novel attack surfaces and…