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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly expanded the attack surface for AI-driven cybersecurity threats, necessitating adaptive defense strategies. This paper introduces CyberSentinel, a unified, single-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Krti Tallam

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) mining involves extracting structured insights from unstructured threat data, enabling organizations to understand and respond to evolving adversarial behavior. A key task in CTI mining is mapping threat…

Security Operations Center (SoC) analysts gather threat reports from openly accessible global threat repositories and tailor the information to their organization's needs, such as developing threat intelligence and security policies. They…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shaswata Mitra , Subash Neupane , Trisha Chakraborty , Sudip Mittal , Aritran Piplai , Manas Gaur , Shahram Rahimi

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports document observations of cyber threats, synthesizing evidence about adversaries' actions and intent into actionable knowledge that informs detection, response, and defense planning. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haokai Ma , Javier Yong , Yunshan Ma , Kuei Chen , Anis Yusof , Zhenkai Liang , Ee-Chien Chang

The clear, social, and dark web have lately been identified as rich sources of valuable cyber-security information that -given the appropriate tools and methods-may be identified, crawled and subsequently leveraged to actionable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Paris Koloveas , Thanasis Chantzios , Christos Tryfonopoulos , Spiros Skiadopoulos

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is critical for mitigating threats to organizations, governments, and institutions, yet the necessary data are often dispersed across diverse formats. AI-driven solutions for CTI Information Extraction (IE)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Olga Sorokoletova , Emanuele Antonioni , Giordano Colò

The internet landscape is growing and at the same time becoming more heterogeneous. Services are performed via computers and networks, critical data is stored digitally. This enables freedom for the user, and flexibility for operators. Data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Simon D Duque Anton , Daniel Fraunholz , Daniel Schneider

Effective incident response (IR) is critical for mitigating cyber threats, yet security teams are overwhelmed by alert fatigue, high false-positive rates, and the vast volume of unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) documents. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Amine Tellache , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Amdjed Mokhtari , Horea Moldovan , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Threat actors can be persistent, motivated and agile, and leverage a diversified and extensive set of tactics and techniques to attain their goals. In response to that, defenders establish threat intelligence programs to stay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vasileios Mavroeidis , Audun Jøsang

Public and commercial organizations extensively share cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) to prepare systems to defend against existing and emerging cyberattacks. However, traditional CTI has primarily focused on tracking known threat indicators…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Youngja Park , Nidhi Rastogi

In today's digitally driven landscape, robust Information Technology (IT) risk assessment practices are essential for safeguarding systems, digital communication, and data. This paper introduces 'AssessITS', an actionable method designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mir Mehedi Rahman , Naresh Kshetri , Sayed Abu Sayeed , Md Masud Rana

Understanding the modus operandi of adversaries aids organizations in employing efficient defensive strategies and sharing intelligence in the community. This knowledge is often present in unstructured natural language text within threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nanda Rani , Bikash Saha , Vikas Maurya , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to many current security algorithms used for secure communication, digital authentication, and information encryption. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Basel Halak , Cristian Sebastian Csete , Edward Joyce , Jack Papaioannou , Alexandre Pires , Jin Soma , Betul Gokkaya , Michael Murphy

Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and severity. Over the past year alone we have witnessed massive data breaches that stole personal information of millions of people and wide-scale ransomware attacks that paralyzed critical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Palash Goyal , KSM Tozammel Hossain , Ashok Deb , Nazgol Tavabi , Nathan Bartley , Andr'es Abeliuk , Emilio Ferrara , Kristina Lerman

Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, provide users with tools to share information along with a set of privacy controls preferences to regulate the spread of information. Current privacy controls are efficient to protect content…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Giuseppe Cascavilla , Filipe Beato , Andrea Burattin , Mauro Conti , Luigi Vincenzo Mancini

The escalating frequency and sophistication of cyber threats increased the need for their comprehensive understanding. This paper explores the intersection of geopolitical dynamics, cyber threat intelligence analysis, and advanced detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Gustavo Sánchez , Ghada Elbez , Veit Hagenmeyer

To be prepared against cyberattacks, most organizations resort to security information and event management systems to monitor their infrastructures. These systems depend on the timeliness and relevance of the latest updates, patches and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Nuno Dionísio , Fernando Alves , Pedro M. Ferreira , Alysson Bessani

High-level natural language knowledge in CTI reports, such as the ATT&CK framework, is beneficial to counter APT attacks. However, how to automatically apply the high-level knowledge in CTI reports in realistic attack detection systems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuhan Meng , Shaofei Li , Jiaping Gui , Peng Jiang , Ding Li

The rise of IT-dependent operations in modern organizations has heightened their vulnerability to cyberattacks. As a growing number of organizations include smart, interconnected devices in their systems to automate their processes, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dincy R. Arikkat , Mert Cihangiroglu , Mauro Conti , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

This study introduces an innovative approach to automating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) processes in industrial environments by leveraging Microsoft's AI-powered security technologies. Historically, CTI has heavily relied on manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shrit Shah , Fatemeh Khoda Parast