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Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration. Unfortunately, its increasing popularity has also made it an attractive target for malicious actors. Despite extensive research on securing Kubernetes, little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Jacopo Bufalino , Jose Luis Martin-Navarro , Mario Di Francesco , Tuomas Aura

One of the widely used cyber deception techniques is decoying, where defenders create fictitious machines (i.e., honeypots) to lure attackers. Honeypots are deployed to entice attackers, but their effectiveness depends on their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Palvi Aggarwal , Yinuo Du , Kuldeep Singh , Cleotilde Gonzalez

We investigate quantum authentication schemes constructed from quantum error-correcting codes. We show that if the code has a property called purity testing, then the resulting authentication scheme guarantees the integrity of ciphertexts,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Yfke Dulek , Florian Speelman

As cloud providers push multi-tenancy to new levels to meet growing scalability demands, ensuring that externally developed untrusted microservices will preserve tenant isolation has become a high priority. Developers, in turn, lack a means…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Marcela S. Melara , Mic Bowman

In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the utilization of cyber deception has gained prominence as a proactive defense strategy against sophisticated attacks. This paper presents a comprehensive survey that investigates the crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Md Abu Sayed , Moqsadur Rahman , Mohammad Ariful Islam Khan , Deepak Tosh

This paper presents C8s, a confidential computing architecture for Kubernetes that provides cryptographically rooted confidentiality, integrity, and verifiability guarantees for Kubernetes clusters from infrastructure operators. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Amean Asad , Patrick McClurg , João Andrade

Deceiving an attacker in the network security domain is a well established approach, mainly achieved through deployment of honeypots consisting of open network ports with the sole purpose of raising an alert on a connection. With attackers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , David Klaaßen , Simon Duque Anton , Hans Dieter Schotten

In the field of network security, the concept of honeypots is well established in research as well as in production. Honeypots are used to imitate a legitimate target on the network and to raise an alert on any interaction. This does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , Norman Becker

This paper argues that a range of current AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. We define deception as the systematic inducement of false beliefs in the pursuit of some outcome other than the truth. We first survey empirical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Peter S. Park , Simon Goldstein , Aidan O'Gara , Michael Chen , Dan Hendrycks

Cyber deception allows compensating the late response of defenders countermeasures to the ever evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of attackers. This proactive defense strategy employs decoys resembling legitimate system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Marco Zambianco , Claudio Facchinetti , Domenico Siracusa

The growing interest in cybersecurity has significantly increased articles designing and implementing various Cyber Deception (CYDEC) mechanisms. This trend reflects the urgent need for new strategies to address cyber threats effectively.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pedro Beltrán López , Manuel Gil Pérez , Pantaleone Nespoli

Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Edoardo Marangone , Michele Spina , Claudio Di Ciccio , Ingo Weber

Cyber deception assists in increasing the attacker's budget in reconnaissance or any early phases of threat intrusions. In the past, numerous methods of cyber deception have been adopted, such as IP address randomization, the creation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Abhijeet Sahu , Shuva Paul , Richard Macwan

Kubernetes, an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, is widely used for its efficiency and scalability. However, its complexity and extensive configuration options often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Eoghan Russell , Kapal Dev

There are plenty of security software in market; each claiming the best, still we daily face problem of viruses and other malicious activities. If we know the basic working principal of such malware then we can very easily prevent most of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Mosin Hasan , Nilesh Prajapati , Safvan Vohara

Companies are misled into thinking they solve their security issues by using a DevSecOps system. This paper aims to answer the question: Could a DevOps pipeline be misused to transform a securely developed application into an insecure one?…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Nicholas Pecka , Lotfi ben Othmane , Altaz Valani

Inter-organizational business processes involve multiple independent organizations collaborating to achieve mutual interests. Process mining techniques have the potential to allow these organizations to enhance operational efficiency,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Valerio Goretti , Davide Basile , Luca Barbaro , Claudio Di Ciccio

Blockchain technology enforces the security, robustness, and traceability of operations of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs). In particular, transparency ensures that all data is publicly available, fostering trust among…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Michele Kryston , Edoardo Marangone , Alessandro Marcelletti , Claudio Di Ciccio

Protecting source code against reverse engineering and theft is an important problem. The goal is to carry out computations using confidential algorithms on an untrusted party while ensuring confidentiality of algorithms. This problem has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Johannes Schneider , Thomas Locher

Kubernetes, the go-to container orchestration solution, has swiftly become the industry standard for managing containers at scale in production environments. Its widespread adoption, particularly in large organizations, has elevated its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 J. Alexander Curtis , Nasir U. Eisty