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Data Mining for Security Applications
May 2010
In this paper, the authors discuss various data mining techniques that they have successfully applied for cyber-security. These applications include but are not limited to malicious code detection...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Three tips for better remote working
Feb 2012
Remote work is becoming increasingly important for organisations that are attempting to drive down their costs and to become more agile by enabling employees to work from any location - at home,...
Provided by Imation
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White Papers
Synthesizing Switching Logic for Safety and Dwell-Time Requirements
Apr 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can be usefully modeled as hybrid automata combining the physical dynamics within modes with discrete switching behavior between modes. CPS designs must satisfy safety...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
2012 Olympics: Is your business prepared?
Feb 2012
Athletes prepare for all kinds of conditions and problems in competition. With the London-hosted Olympics fast approaching, businesses should be prepared with policies to keep performance high...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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Defining your data demands in simple steps
Feb 2012
Businesses have seen a deluge of data, with more devices, more platforms and more access -- and, of course, more ways to lose and leak information. By 2020, it's estimated that the world will...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection
Jun 2008
As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human activity, attackers can use the anonymity of the cyberspace to commit crimes and compromise the IT infrastructure. As currently there...
Provided by Fraunhofer IAIS
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Botnet Detection Architecture Based on Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Information Fusion
Dec 2011
As technology has been developed rapidly, botnet threats to the global cyber community are also increasing. And the botnet detection has recently become a major research topic in the field of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Cyber Social-Networks and Social Movements Case Study: Tehran (2009-10)
Jan 2011
While communication scholars suggest that cyber social networks can serve as an important resource for social movement communication, few studies examine which and how special features of these...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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On the Design and Execution of Cyber-Security User Studies: Methodology, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Jun 2011
Real-world data collection poses an important challenge in the security field. Insider and masquerader attack data collection poses even a greater challenge. Very few organizations acknowledge...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Web Application Security: GamaSec Solution
Jan 2008
How does one cost effectively defend web applications from attack? One's organization relies on mission critical business applications that contain sensitive information about customers, business...
Provided by Gamasec
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Characterizing Cyberspace: Past, Present and Future David Clark
Mar 2010
This paper is funded by the Office of Naval Research under award number N00014091059 and N000140810898. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this email are those...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Strategic Advantage: Why America Should Care About Cybersecurity
Oct 2009
The internet is an interconnected series of networks - where it is difficult to determine where private security threats end and public ones begin. These networks deliver power and water to the...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Assessing Home Internet Users' Demand for Security: Will They Pay ISPs?
Jun 2011
One strategy for improving cyber security would be for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take a more active role in curtailing criminal behavior over the Internet. However, few ISPs today are...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically
Apr 2008
The primary legal obstacles to conducting cybersecurity are not outright prohibitions but rather the difficulty of determining which of a large set of complex statutes might regulate a given...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
White Paper for NIST CSWG: Cyber Security Requirements for Business Processes Involving Home Area Networks (HAN)
Nov 2009
This report "Home Area Network (HAN) Security Requirements" identifies and discusses the key cyber security requirements for different interfaces of HAN-based systems. These cyber security...
Provided by Xanthus Consulting International
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White Papers
Specification and Verification of a Context-Based Access Control Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Jan 2012
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are complex systems that operate in a dynamic environment where security characteristics of contexts are unique, and uniform access to secure resources anywhere...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
A Framework for Composition and Enforcement of Privacy-Aware and Context-Driven Authorization Mechanism for Complex Systems
Oct 2011
Security and privacy of complex systems is a concern due to proliferation of cyber based technologies. Several researchers have pointed out that for the proper enforcement of privacy rules in a...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Performance of Path Loss Model in 4G Wimax Wireless Communication System in 2390 MHz
Jan 2012
In 4G WiMAX wireless communication system, the signals like all RF wave, are susceptible to path loss. Path loss represents the attenuation suffered by an RF signal as it propagates from the...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing: The Binding and Migration Problem
Dec 2011
The authors take the paradigm of cloud computing developed in the cyber-world and put it into the physical world to create a cyber-physical computing cloud. A server in this cloud moves in space...
Provided by University of Salzburg
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White Papers
A Guideline to Enforce Data Protection and Privacy Digital Laws in Iran
Jan 2012
In the Iranian cyber law, no law has been enacted to protect the personal data of the people when a theft of personal data occurs. This paper will suggest a guideline for applying and enforcing...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Simulating Cyber-Attacks for Fun and Profit
Feb 2009
The authors introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware and...
Provided by Core Security Technologies
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Podcasts
Michael Kaiser, NCSA and Rob Strayer Chat About Cyber Security
Oct 2011
In this podcast, the speakers discussed the goals of the National Security Preparedness Group and why they think there is so much work to be done for better information sharing between the public...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Command and Control in the Fifth Domain
Feb 2012
This paper presents the findings of an extensive investigation into command and control infrastructure used by an Advanced Persistent Threat. Findings include technical details of malicious...
Provided by Command Five Pty
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White Papers
Mitigating Cyber-Threats Through Public-Private Partnerships: Low Cost Governance With High-Impact Returns
Dec 2010
The realization that cyber threats can cause the same devastation to a country as physical security risks has taken the long route towards acceptance. Governments and businesses have thrown the...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
The Use of Governance to Identify Cyber Threats Through Social Media
Dec 2010
Identifying which website, Facebook page or Linked-in connection could lead to an engagement with a terrorist group is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. Differentiation of one website...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Tracing VNC and RDP Protocol Artefacts on Windows Mobile and Windows Smartphone for Forensic Purpose
Dec 2010
Remote access is the means of acquiring access to a computer or network remotely or from distance. It is typically achieved through the internet which connects people, corporate offices and...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Is Cyber Resilience in Medical Practice Security Achievable?
Dec 2010
Australia is moving to a national e-health system with a high level of interconnectedness. The scenario for recovery of such a system, particularly once it is heavily relied upon, may be complex....
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Small Business - A Cyber Resilience Vulnerability
Dec 2010
Small business in Australia comprise 95% of businesses. As a group this means that they contain increasing volumes of personal and business data. This creates escalating vulnerabilities as...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
International Relations and Cyber Attacks: Official and Unofficial Discourse
Dec 2010
The potential for cyberwarfare is vast and is of concern to all nations, and national security defence. It appears that many countries are actively trying to protect their computer networks,...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Mahalanobis Distance Map Approach for Anomaly Detection of Web-Based Attacks
Dec 2010
Web servers and web-based applications are commonly used as attack targets. The main issues are how to prevent unauthorised access and to protect web servers from the attack. Intrusion Detection...
Provided by University of Technology
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White Papers
A Threat to Cyber Resilience: A Malware Rebirthing Botnet
Nov 2011
This paper presents a threat to cyber resilience in the form of a conceptual model of a malware rebirthing botnet which can be used in a variety of scenarios. It can be used to collect existing...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Securing the Elderly: A Developmental Approach to Hypermedia-Based Online Information Security for Senior Novice Computer Users
Nov 2009
Whilst security threats to the general public continue to evolve, elderly computer users with limited skill and knowledge are left playing catch-up in an ever-widening gap in fundamental...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Empowering Protest Through Social Media
Nov 2011
Advances in personal communications devices including smartphones, are enabling individuals to establish and form virtual communities in cyberspace. Such platforms now allow users to be in...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Cyber Influence
Feb 2010
This paper explores influence in the cyber-world and the ability and effectiveness of influence campaigns in this medium. It examines the possibilities of influence in the online world as examines...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Safeguarding Australia From Cyber-Terrorism: A Proposed Cyber-Terrorism SCADA Risk Framework for Industry Adoption
Feb 2010
Terrorist groups are currently using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to orchestrate their conventional physical attacks. More recently, terrorists have been developing a new form...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Designing Cyber Warfare Information Infrastructure Resilience
Dec 2011
Due to many cyber attacks in the last years, governments are realizing how vulnerable they have become should there be a break out of a cyberwar. This urged them to establish a cyber warfare...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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White Papers
Towards Resilient Networks Using Situation Awareness
Jun 2011
Resilience will be an essential design and operational characteristic of future networks. This paper first surveys resilient networks and Situation Awareness (SA) in cyberspace. Then, SA is...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
VectorTrust: Trust Vector Aggregation Scheme for Trust Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks
May 2009
With emerging Internet-scale open content and resource sharing, social networks, and complex cyber-physical systems, trust issues become prominent. In this paper, the authors propose a trust...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
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White Papers
Justifying a Policy Based Approach for DDoS Remediation: A Case Study
Jun 2010
Following the outbreak of conflict between Russia and Georgia and the infamous collapse of the Estonian network infrastructure in 2007, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as...
Provided by Liverpool John Moores University
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White Papers
Multimedia Modules and Virtual Organization Website for Collaborative Research Experience for Teachers in STEM
May 2011
Wireless enabled cyber physical systems and applications, highly interactive multimedia modules, and virtual organization tools and capabilities provide attractive avenues for boosting interest...
Provided by Journal of Universal Computer Science
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CyberRadar: A Regression Analysis Approach to the Identification of Cyber-Physical Mappings in Process Control Systems
Sep 2008
One of the attack requirements for maximizing physical dam-age to digitally controlled infrastructures is the identification of a mapping between program variables in a compromised control system...
Provided by State University of New York
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Complexity Science Challenges in Cybersecurity
Mar 2009
Computers and the Internet are indispensable to the modern society, but by the standards of critical infrastructure, they are notably unreliable. Existing analysis and design approaches have...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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White Papers
Status and Requirements of Counter-Cyberterrorism
Jun 2009
The number of intrusions and attacks against critical infrastructures and other information networks is increasing rapidly. While there is no identified evidence that terrorist organizations are...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2008
In this position paper the authors investigate the security of cyber physical systems. The authors identify and define the problem of secure control, investigate the defenses that information...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Formal Verification of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems
Oct 2008
Transportation cyber physical systems are now being designed using computer-aided control system design tools, such as Matlab. Analysis is currently supported only in the form of simulation. To...
Provided by SRI International
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Podcasts
Security Intelligence Report Video Series, Cristin Flynn Goodwin
Jan 2011
The presenter of this podcast discusses how to use the Security Intelligence Report to tell the cyber security story to government officials and the importance of IT professionals educating their...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Providing End-to-End Guarantees in Cyber-Physical Systems
Oct 2008
Cyber-physical systems are integrations of computation, communication and control with physical processes/entities. They may be viewed as a networked system of embedded systems that must work...
Provided by Southern Illinois University
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White Papers
Experiences and Challenges With Using CERT Data to Analyze International Cyber Security
Oct 2009
With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Cyber-Fraud Is One Typo Away
Jan 2008
Spelling errors when typing a URL can be exploited by website-squatters: users are led to phony sites in a phenomenon the authors call parasitic URL naming. These phony sites imitate popular...
Provided by University of California, Riverside
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White Papers
Towards an Evolving Theory of Cyberpower
Jul 2009
In the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, a request was made to have the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), National Defense University (NDU), develop a theory of...
Provided by National Defense University
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White Papers
Public Safety Land Mobile Radio Cyber and Information Assurance
Oct 2010
The importance of Cyber Security (CS) for public safety mission critical Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Systems has only recently gained the attention of the market. It is just now beginning to be...
Provided by Harris
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White Papers
Deconstruction of Some Industrial Control Systems Cyber-Security Myths
Apr 2009
This paper presents a selection of technical issues to address to secure sensitive control systems. The selected issues were chosen because they all suffer from misconceptions and a mythology that...
Provided by EDR
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White Papers
Cyber Security Protecting Our Federal Government From Cyber Attacks
Apr 2010
Today's federal cyber attacks are coming from other nations, cyber-criminal organizations, and individuals seeking military, economic and financial gains. To address these growing threats, the...
Provided by Verizon
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White Papers
Cybersecurity Review Background, Threatscape, Best-Practices and Resources
May 2009
Cybercrime is pervasive, pandemic and increasingly connected with other parts of the criminal ecosystem. It ranges from the theft of an individual's identity to the complete disruption of a...
Provided by securingourecity.org
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White Papers
The Future of Network Security
Nov 2010
Cyber threats are high on the agenda, with the UK government focusing on the threat of cyber-terror, as a result of the National Security Council's report into the issue in October 2010. The...
Provided by Redscan
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White Papers
Defense in Cyberspace
Sep 2008
Wireless technology has aroused as much interest as it has skepticism in the industrial control systems industry. While many recognize the easier installation and reduced costs, others question...
Provided by ISA
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White Papers
Cybersecurity Through Real-Time Distributed Control Systems
Feb 2010
Critical infrastructure sites and facilities are becoming increasingly dependent on interconnected physical and cyber-based Real-Time Distributed Control Systems (RTDCSs). A mounting cybersecurity...
Provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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White Papers
Integrating Marine Observatories Into a System-of-Systems: Messaging in the US Ocean Observatories Initiative
Aug 2009
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) will implement ocean sensor networks covering a diversity of oceanic environments, ranging from the coastal to the deep ocean. Construction will begin in...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Voting Systems With Trust Mechanisms in Cyberspace: Vulnerabilities and Defenses
Nov 2009
With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there is growing evidence that current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many researchers working on...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Project Bloom: Empowering the Security Research Community Through Data Products and Computing
Sep 2009
Cybercrime is a thriving multi-billion dollar underground economy. Web sites connected to phishing, malware, and scam spring up by the millions every day, and users are lured to them through...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
The CERT Approach to Cybersecurity Workforce Development
Dec 2010
For a cybersecurity workforce to be effective, its members must possess the knowledge, skills, and experience required to perform their job duties. Proficiency and relevance are key factors in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
A SOA Model of Cyber Physical Systems
Apr 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are combinations of physical entities controlled by software systems to accomplish specified tasks under stringent real-time and physical entity constraints. As more...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
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White Papers
Towards Secure Information Sharing Models for Community Cyber Security
Sep 2010
This paper motivates the need for new models for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) in the specific domain of community cyber security. The authors believe that similar models will be applicable in...
Provided by University of Texas at San Antonio
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White Papers
Design Principles for Power Grid Cyber-Infrastructure Authentication Protocols
Oct 2009
Recently, there has been an increased focus and a sense of urgency in developing standards for Power Grid systems centered on the need for interoperability. Given the threat against these systems...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
A Method for Estimating the Financial Impact of Cyber Information Security Breaches Utilizing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and Annual Loss Expectancy
Jan 2010
Information security is relatively new field that is experiencing rapid growth in terms of malicious attack frequency and the amount of capital that firms must spend on attack defense. This rise...
Provided by University of Kansas
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White Papers
An Integrated Cyber Security Monitoring System Using Correlation-Based Techniques
Apr 2009
This paper proposes an adaptive cyber security monitoring system that integrates a number of component techniques to collect time-series situation information, perform intrusion detection, keep...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
NERSC Cyber Security Challenges That Require DOE Development and Support
May 2008
Traditional security approaches do not adequately address all the requirements of open, scientific computing facilities. Many of the methods used for more restricted environments, including almost...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Tradeoffs of Service, Security and Attack for Cyber System Survivability
Apr 2010
Trade-offs within the limitation of given system resources often have to be made for a cyber system to sustain its more critical services under the damage of cyber attacks. Understanding and...
Provided by Arizona State University
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White Papers
Human Interface for Cyber Security Anomaly Detection Systems
May 2009
Low-level network traffic information is often times beyond the understanding of common system operators (Byte counts, port numbers, packet data, etc.). However, anomaly based Intrusion Detection...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Visualizing Cyber Security: Usable Workspaces
Jul 2009
The goal of cyber security visualization is to help analysts increase the safety and soundness of the digital infrastructures by providing effective tools and workspaces. Visualization researchers...
Provided by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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White Papers
Cyber-Vulnerability of Power Grid Monitoring and Control Systems
May 2008
In this paper, a methodology is proposed for the evaluation of the impact of cyber attacks on the power grid. This is a systematical approach to evaluate the vulnerabilities of SCADA system at...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Cyber Power
May 2010
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
AVOIDIT: A Cyber Attack Taxonomy
Oct 2009
Cyber attacks have greatly increased over the years, where the attackers have progressively improved in devising attacks towards a specific target. To aid in identifying and defending against...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Towards an Evolvable Cyber Security Protection Profile for Electronic Medical Records to Ensure Privacy and Security
Jul 2009
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) provide increased productivity and convenience for patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and other medical professionals. The added accessibility...
Provided by Morgan State University
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White Papers
Cyber-Security Cluster
Jun 2009
The goal of cyber-security is to ensure the trustworthy behavior of the information technology infrastructure that the authors depend on in so many aspects of the lives. To realize the full...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Challenges of Implementing Cyber-Physical Security Solutions in Body Area Networks
Apr 2009
Cyber-physical approach to securing Body Area Networks (BANs) provides solutions that are plug-n-play and trans-parent to its users. These Cyber-Physical Security Solutions (CPSS) actively involve...
Provided by ICST
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White Papers
Competitive Cyber-Insurance and Internet Security
May 2009
This paper investigates how competitive cyber-insurers affect network security and welfare of the networked society. In the model, a user's probability to incur damage (From being attacked)...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
VCSTC: Virtual Cyber Security Testing Capability - An Application Oriented Paradigm for Network Infrastructure Protection
Jun 2008
Network security devices are becoming more sophisticated and so are the testing processes. Traditional network testbeds face challenges in terms of fidelity, scalability and complexity of security...
Provided by IFIP
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White Papers
CYSEP - A Cyber-Security Processor for 10Gbps Networks and Beyond
Jan 2011
This paper describes the architecture of a CYber-SEcurity Processor (CYSEP) which can serve as a key module for enhancing security for high-speed networks/ systems. The CYSEP supports, at...
Provided by Lucent Technologies
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White Papers
Toward an Ontology Architecture for Cyber-Security Standards
Oct 2010
The rapid growth in magnitude and complexity of Cyber-Security Information and Event Management (CSIEM) has ignited a trend toward security automation and information exchange standards. Making...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Characterizing Cyberspace: Past, Present and Future David Clark
Mar 2010
This paper is funded by the Office of Naval Research under award number N00014091059 and N000140810898. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this email are those...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Strategic Advantage: Why America Should Care About Cybersecurity
Oct 2009
The internet is an interconnected series of networks - where it is difficult to determine where private security threats end and public ones begin. These networks deliver power and water to the...
Provided by Harvard University
-
White Papers
Assessing Home Internet Users' Demand for Security: Will They Pay ISPs?
Jun 2011
One strategy for improving cyber security would be for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take a more active role in curtailing criminal behavior over the Internet. However, few ISPs today are...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically
Apr 2008
The primary legal obstacles to conducting cybersecurity are not outright prohibitions but rather the difficulty of determining which of a large set of complex statutes might regulate a given...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
White Paper for NIST CSWG: Cyber Security Requirements for Business Processes Involving Home Area Networks (HAN)
Nov 2009
This report "Home Area Network (HAN) Security Requirements" identifies and discusses the key cyber security requirements for different interfaces of HAN-based systems. These cyber security...
Provided by Xanthus Consulting International
-
White Papers
Specification and Verification of a Context-Based Access Control Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
Jan 2012
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are complex systems that operate in a dynamic environment where security characteristics of contexts are unique, and uniform access to secure resources anywhere...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
A Framework for Composition and Enforcement of Privacy-Aware and Context-Driven Authorization Mechanism for Complex Systems
Oct 2011
Security and privacy of complex systems is a concern due to proliferation of cyber based technologies. Several researchers have pointed out that for the proper enforcement of privacy rules in a...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Performance of Path Loss Model in 4G Wimax Wireless Communication System in 2390 MHz
Jan 2012
In 4G WiMAX wireless communication system, the signals like all RF wave, are susceptible to path loss. Path loss represents the attenuation suffered by an RF signal as it propagates from the...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
-
White Papers
Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing: The Binding and Migration Problem
Dec 2011
The authors take the paradigm of cloud computing developed in the cyber-world and put it into the physical world to create a cyber-physical computing cloud. A server in this cloud moves in space...
Provided by University of Salzburg
-
White Papers
A Guideline to Enforce Data Protection and Privacy Digital Laws in Iran
Jan 2012
In the Iranian cyber law, no law has been enacted to protect the personal data of the people when a theft of personal data occurs. This paper will suggest a guideline for applying and enforcing...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
-
White Papers
Simulating Cyber-Attacks for Fun and Profit
Feb 2009
The authors introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware and...
Provided by Core Security Technologies
-
Podcasts
Michael Kaiser, NCSA and Rob Strayer Chat About Cyber Security
Oct 2011
In this podcast, the speakers discussed the goals of the National Security Preparedness Group and why they think there is so much work to be done for better information sharing between the public...
Provided by Sophos
-
White Papers
Command and Control in the Fifth Domain
Feb 2012
This paper presents the findings of an extensive investigation into command and control infrastructure used by an Advanced Persistent Threat. Findings include technical details of malicious...
Provided by Command Five Pty
-
White Papers
Mitigating Cyber-Threats Through Public-Private Partnerships: Low Cost Governance With High-Impact Returns
Dec 2010
The realization that cyber threats can cause the same devastation to a country as physical security risks has taken the long route towards acceptance. Governments and businesses have thrown the...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
The Use of Governance to Identify Cyber Threats Through Social Media
Dec 2010
Identifying which website, Facebook page or Linked-in connection could lead to an engagement with a terrorist group is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. Differentiation of one website...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Tracing VNC and RDP Protocol Artefacts on Windows Mobile and Windows Smartphone for Forensic Purpose
Dec 2010
Remote access is the means of acquiring access to a computer or network remotely or from distance. It is typically achieved through the internet which connects people, corporate offices and...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Is Cyber Resilience in Medical Practice Security Achievable?
Dec 2010
Australia is moving to a national e-health system with a high level of interconnectedness. The scenario for recovery of such a system, particularly once it is heavily relied upon, may be complex....
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Small Business - A Cyber Resilience Vulnerability
Dec 2010
Small business in Australia comprise 95% of businesses. As a group this means that they contain increasing volumes of personal and business data. This creates escalating vulnerabilities as...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
International Relations and Cyber Attacks: Official and Unofficial Discourse
Dec 2010
The potential for cyberwarfare is vast and is of concern to all nations, and national security defence. It appears that many countries are actively trying to protect their computer networks,...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Mahalanobis Distance Map Approach for Anomaly Detection of Web-Based Attacks
Dec 2010
Web servers and web-based applications are commonly used as attack targets. The main issues are how to prevent unauthorised access and to protect web servers from the attack. Intrusion Detection...
Provided by University of Technology
-
White Papers
A Threat to Cyber Resilience: A Malware Rebirthing Botnet
Nov 2011
This paper presents a threat to cyber resilience in the form of a conceptual model of a malware rebirthing botnet which can be used in a variety of scenarios. It can be used to collect existing...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Securing the Elderly: A Developmental Approach to Hypermedia-Based Online Information Security for Senior Novice Computer Users
Nov 2009
Whilst security threats to the general public continue to evolve, elderly computer users with limited skill and knowledge are left playing catch-up in an ever-widening gap in fundamental...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Empowering Protest Through Social Media
Nov 2011
Advances in personal communications devices including smartphones, are enabling individuals to establish and form virtual communities in cyberspace. Such platforms now allow users to be in...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Cyber Influence
Feb 2010
This paper explores influence in the cyber-world and the ability and effectiveness of influence campaigns in this medium. It examines the possibilities of influence in the online world as examines...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
-
White Papers
Safeguarding Australia From Cyber-Terrorism: A Proposed Cyber-Terrorism SCADA Risk Framework for Industry Adoption
Feb 2010
Terrorist groups are currently using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to orchestrate their conventional physical attacks. More recently, terrorists have been developing a new form...
Provided by Deakin University
-
White Papers
Designing Cyber Warfare Information Infrastructure Resilience
Dec 2011
Due to many cyber attacks in the last years, governments are realizing how vulnerable they have become should there be a break out of a cyberwar. This urged them to establish a cyber warfare...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
-
White Papers
Towards Resilient Networks Using Situation Awareness
Jun 2011
Resilience will be an essential design and operational characteristic of future networks. This paper first surveys resilient networks and Situation Awareness (SA) in cyberspace. Then, SA is...
Provided by Lancaster University
-
White Papers
VectorTrust: Trust Vector Aggregation Scheme for Trust Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks
May 2009
With emerging Internet-scale open content and resource sharing, social networks, and complex cyber-physical systems, trust issues become prominent. In this paper, the authors propose a trust...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
-
White Papers
Justifying a Policy Based Approach for DDoS Remediation: A Case Study
Jun 2010
Following the outbreak of conflict between Russia and Georgia and the infamous collapse of the Estonian network infrastructure in 2007, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as...
Provided by Liverpool John Moores University
-
White Papers
Multimedia Modules and Virtual Organization Website for Collaborative Research Experience for Teachers in STEM
May 2011
Wireless enabled cyber physical systems and applications, highly interactive multimedia modules, and virtual organization tools and capabilities provide attractive avenues for boosting interest...
Provided by Journal of Universal Computer Science
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White Papers
Credit Card Fraud Detection Analysis
Sep 2011
Computer security and certain aspects of cyber crime is being increasing day by day. The detailed study of the present day most commonly encountered cyber crime like Credit card fraud analysis is...
Provided by Sri Krishnadevaraya University
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Towards a Framework for Operational Support in Critical Infrastructures
Jun 2011
Critical infrastructures include sectors such as energy resources, finance, food and water distribution, health, manufacturing, government services and in some cases people. The consequences of an...
Provided by Liverpool John Moores University
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Research on Cyber Security Segregation for Industrial Control Systems
Aug 2011
This paper discusses the use of a non-network segregation formula to enhance Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security. The major goal of the formula is to increase security with special hardware...
Provided by Changsha University of Science and Technology
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Geolocalization of Proxied Services and Its Application to Fast-Flux Hidden Servers
Nov 2009
Fast-flux is a redirection technique used by cyber-criminals to hide the actual location of malicious servers. Its purpose is to evade identification and prevent or, at least delay, the shutdown...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Towards an Integrated e-Mail Forensic Analysis Framework
Jan 2009
Due to its simple and inherently vulnerable nature, e-mail communication is abused for numerous illegitimate purposes. E-mail spamming, phishing, drug trafficking, cyber bullying, racial...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Cross-Layer Anomaly Correlation and Response Selection
Oct 2010
A cyber attack modifies the behavior of its target application or system such that it is outside of its intended or de-sired range of behavior. The challenge is that one cannot predict the attack...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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2012 web security report
Mar 2012
In 2011, malnets (malware networks) emerged as the next evolution in the threat landscape. These infrastructures last beyond any one attack, allowing cybercriminals to quickly adapt to new...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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Take a unified approach to security
Mar 2012
Organisations are dealing with a workforce that is increasingly mobile, connected and demanding - they are using their own devices and want access to corporate data at all times, from any...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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Using hybrid security to manage web threats
Mar 2012
Security professionals are engaged in a philosophical debate around information security requirements, especially as they relate to web threat management. Should large organisations opt for...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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Quality Evaluation of Vehicle Navigation With Cyber Physical Systems
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors focus on a typical application of Cyber Physical System (CPS), i.e., vehicle route navigation. Two fundamental problems have been examined: How different are various...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
