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Context engineering has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for unlocking the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Software Engineering (SE) tasks, enabling performance gains at test time without model fine-tuning. Despite its success,…

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Cloud Security Operations Center (SOC) enable cloud governance, risk and compliance by providing insights visibility and control. Cloud SOC triages high-volume, heterogeneous telemetry from elastic, short-lived resources while staying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Nnamdi Philip Okonkwo , Lubna Luxmi Dhirani

This report examines the synergy between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) to improve vulnerability discovery. Traditional SAST tools, while effective for proactive security, are limited by high…

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Security teams face a challenge: the volume of newly disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) far exceeds the capacity to manually develop detection mechanisms. In 2025, the National Vulnerability Database published over 48,000…

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AI-enabled Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) systems increasingly employ autonomous agents for cyber defense, yet their resilience to adaptive adversaries is underexplored. We introduce an autonomous red teaming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ayan Javeed Shaikh , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Ankit Shah

The field of cybersecurity is confronted with two interrelated challenges: a worldwide deficit of qualified practitioners and ongoing human-factor weaknesses that account for the bulk of security incidents. To tackle these issues, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas , Ilias Karachalios , Andrew J. McCracken

FinTechs increasing connectivity, rapid innovation, and reliance on global digital infrastructures present significant cybersecurity challenges. Traditional cybersecurity frameworks often struggle to identify and prioritize sector-specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khondokar Fida Hasan , Hasibul Hossain Shajeeb , Chathura Abeydeera , Benjamin Turnbull , Matthew Warren

The growing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks pose critical challenges to network security, particularly in detecting diverse intrusion types within imbalanced datasets. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nisith Dissanayake , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Enterprise networks are growing ever larger with a rapidly expanding attack surface, increasing the volume of security alerts generated from security controls. Security Operations Centre (SOC) analysts triage these alerts to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Melissa Turcotte , François Labrèche , Serge-Olivier Paquette

The proliferation of cloud-native architectures, characterized by microservices and dynamic orchestration, has rendered modern IT infrastructures exceedingly complex and volatile. This complexity generates overwhelming volumes of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zishan Bai , Hanxuan Chen , Jing Luo , Ziyi Ni , Enze Ge , Jiacheng Shi , Yichao Zhang , Jiayi Gu , Zhimo Han , Riyang Bao , Junfeng Hao

OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace hosts tens of thousands of community-contributed agent skills (49,592 in our 2026-04-04 snapshot), and recent audits report that 13-26% contain security vulnerabilities. Regex scanners miss obfuscated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yinghan Hou , Zongyou Yang , Zaihu Pang , Xiujun Ma

Incident management for large cloud services is a complex and tedious process and requires significant amount of manual efforts from on-call engineers (OCEs). OCEs typically leverage data from different stages of the software development…

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We demonstrate how publicly available social-media data and generative AI (GenAI) can be misused to automate and scale highly personalized, context-aware spear-phishing campaigns. With minimal attacker effort, a small amount of public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Elham Pourabbas Vafa , Sayak Saha Roy , Shirin Nilizadeh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in code generation, yet they struggle with the multi-step, stateful reasoning required for offensive cybersecurity operations. Existing research often relies on static benchmarks that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 James Hugglestone , Samuel Jacob Chacko , Dawson Stoller , Ryan Schmidt , Xiuwen Liu

We develop a queueing-theoretic framework to model the temporal evolution of cyber-attack surfaces, where the number of active vulnerabilities is represented as the backlog of a queue. Vulnerabilities arrive as they are discovered or…

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Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are essential for maintaining indoor environmental quality, but their interconnected nature and reliance on sensor networks make them vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks. Such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Zhenan Feng , Ehsan Nekouei

The landscape of cyber threats grows more complex by the day. Advanced Persistent Threats carry out attack campaigns - e.g. operations Dream Job, Wocao, and WannaCry - against which cybersecurity practitioners must defend. To prioritise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Stefano M. Nicoletti , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mariëlle Stoelinga , Fabio Massacci , Carlos E. Budde

We introduce the Cyber Defense Benchmark, a benchmark for measuring how well large language model (LLM) agents perform the core SOC analyst task of threat hunting: given a database of raw Windows event logs with no guided questions or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Alankrit Chona , Igor Kozlov , Ambuj Kumar

Smart contract vulnerabilities have led to billions in losses, yet finding actionable exploits remains challenging. Traditional fuzzers rely on rigid heuristics and struggle with complex attacks, while human auditors are thorough but slow…

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Advanced nuclear reactor systems face increasing cybersecurity threats as sophisticated attackers exploit cyber-physical interfaces to manipulate control systems while evading traditional IT security measures. This research presents a…

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