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Many of our critical infrastructure systems and personal computing systems have a distributed computing systems structure. The incentives to attack them have been growing rapidly as has their attack surface due to increasing levels of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Mustafa Abdallah , Saurabh Bagchi , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Kevin Chan , Xing Gao , Murat Kantarcioglu , Congmiao Li , Peng Liu , Quanyan Zhu

In the dynamic realm of cybersecurity, awareness training is crucial for strengthening defenses against cyber threats. This survey examines a spectrum of cybersecurity awareness training methods, analyzing traditional, technology-based, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Saif Al-Dean Qawasmeh , Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Muhammad Khurram Khan

Game theoretical techniques have recently become prevalent in many engineering applications, notably in communications. With the emergence of cooperation as a new communication paradigm, and the need for self-organizing, decentralized, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes , Tamer Basar

Adversary thinking is an essential skill for cybersecurity experts, enabling them to understand cyber attacks and set up effective defenses. While this skill is commonly exercised by Capture the Flag games and hands-on activities, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Valdemar Švábenský , Jan Vykopal , Milan Cermak , Martin Laštovička

Training the future cybersecurity workforce to respond to emerging threats requires introduction of novel educational interventions into the cybersecurity curriculum. To be effective, these interventions have to incorporate trending…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Filipo Sharevski , Adam Trowbridge , Jessica Westbrook

This paper presents a national case study-based analysis of the numerous dimensions to cybersecurity education and how they are prioritised, implemented and accredited; from understanding the interaction of hardware and software, moving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Tom Crick , James H. Davenport , Alastair Irons , Tom Prickett

Facing the dynamic complex cyber environments, internal and external cyber threat intelligence, and the increasing risk of cyber-attack, knowledge graphs show great application potential in the cyber security area because of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Kai Liu , Fei Wang , Zhaoyun Ding , Sheng Liang , Zhengfei Yu , Yun Zhou

Improving cybersecurity education has become a priority for many countries and organizations worldwide. Computing societies and professional associations have recognized cybersecurity as a distinctive computing discipline and created…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jan Vykopal , Valdemar Švábenský , Michael Tuscano Lopez , Pavel Čeleda

Adversarial training has been widely acknowledged as the most effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). So far, most existing works focus on enhancing the overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zeming Wei , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

In a federated learning (FL) system, malicious participants can easily embed backdoors into the aggregated model while maintaining the model's performance on the main task. To this end, various defenses, including training stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Henger Li , Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Zizhan Zheng

Federated learning (FL) represents a novel paradigm to machine learning, addressing critical issues related to data privacy and security, yet suffering from data insufficiency and imbalance. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Chen Wu , Hao Zhou , Jiaqi Wang

Cybersecurity professionals need hands-on training to prepare for managing the current advanced cyber threats. To practice cybersecurity skills, training participants use numerous software tools in computer-supported interactive learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Valdemar Švábenský , Jan Vykopal , Pavel Čeleda , Lydia Kraus

Digital inequality remains a significant barrier for many older adults, limiting their ability to navigate online spaces securely and confidently while increasing their susceptibility to cyber threats. In response, we propose a novel…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jacob Camilleri , Ashley Sheil , Michelle O'Keeffe , Moya Cronin , Melanie Gruben , Hazel Murray

As technology increasingly integrates into farm settings, the food and agriculture sector has become vulnerable to cyberattacks. However, previous research has indicated that many farmers and food producers lack the cybersecurity education…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 George Grispos , Logan Mears , Larry Loucks , William Mahoney

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions are increasingly becoming a testbed for evaluating AI capabilities at solving security tasks, due to the controlled environments and objective success criteria. Existing evaluations have focused on how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tingxuan Tang , Nicolas Janis , Kalyn Asher Montague , Kevin Eykholt , Dhilung Kirat , Youngja Park , Jiyong Jang , Adwait Nadkarni , Yue Xiao

When using security questions most users still trade-off security for the convenience of memorability. This happens because most users find strong answers to security questions difficult to remember. Previous research in security education…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Nicholas Micallef , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Cybersecurity is now more important than ever, and so is education in this field. However, the cybersecurity domain encompasses an extensive set of concepts, which can be taught in different ways and contexts. To understand the state of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Valdemar Švábenský , Jan Vykopal , Pavel Čeleda

Modeling and simulation are widely used in cybersecurity research to assess cyber threats, evaluate defense mechanisms, and analyze vulnerabilities. However, the diversity of application areas, the variety of cyberattacks scenarios, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Luca Serena , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

An exponential growth of Machine Learning and its Generative AI applications brings with it significant security challenges, often referred to as Adversarial Machine Learning (AML). In this paper, we conducted two comprehensive studies to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Vishruti Kakkad , Paul Chung , Hanan Hibshi , Maverick Woo

Cyber resilience is a complementary concept to cybersecurity, focusing on the preparation, response, and recovery from cyber threats that are challenging to prevent. Organizations increasingly face such threats in an evolving cyber threat…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Quanyan Zhu