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Serving Ocean Model Data on the Cloud
Aug 2009
The NOAA-led Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project (00I-Cl) are collaborating on a prototype data delivery system...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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BUilding Cyberinfrastructure
Aug 2008
Interest in cyberinfrastructure has accelerated since the 2003 report by the National Science Foundation's Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (known as the "Atkins Report") and the...
Provided by EDUCAUSE
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2009 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends: With Data Breaches on the Rise; Leading IT Organisation Look to a Strategic Encryption Approach
Jul 2009
Since last year's US Encryption Trends 2008 Study, the economy has become front page news. IT budgets and spending are strained - yet the protection of intellectual property and customer data...
Provided by PGP
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Server and Application Protection
Feb 2009
Cyber attacks can bypass or penetrate even top-of-the-line perimeter security, and it's increasingly recognized as a security best practice to provide server and application protection to detect...
Provided by Trend Micro
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A Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks
Dec 2010
This paper presents a taxonomy of operational cyber security risks that attempts to identify and organize the sources of operational cyber security risk into four classes: actions of people,...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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The Dartmouth Cyber Security Initiative: Faculty, Staff, and Students Work Together
Dec 2009
Three students huddle around a laptop in a dormitory basement late on a Friday night. One walks over to a vending machine and swipes a dining card while the others stare intently at snippets of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Best Practices for National Cyber Security: Building a National Computer Security Incident Management Capability
Jun 2010
Managing cyber security through a national strategy is a necessity common to all national governments in the 21st century. Critical infrastructure in most nations, from transportation and power...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Ideal Based Cyber Security Technical Metrics for Control Systems
Aug 2007
Much of the world's critical infrastructure is at risk from attack through electronic networks connected to control systems. Security metrics are important because they provide the basis for...
Provided by U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Using Bayesian Networks for Cyber Security Analysis
Apr 2010
Capturing the uncertain aspects in cyber security is important for security analysis in enterprise networks. However, there has been insufficient effort in studying what modeling approaches...
Provided by Penn State University
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White Papers
Information Management and Cyber Security Policy
Mar 2010
Information security refers to the protection of information from accidental or unauthorized access, destruction, modification or disclosure. Digital information is defined as the representation...
Provided by SUNY Fredonia
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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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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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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Whitepapers
Protecting the Legal Industry From High-Risk Security Threats With Real-Time Continuous Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber-espionage attacks orchestrated by foreign intelligence services or between competing companies has become a growing and persistent threat to the economic security of many countries and is no...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Aanval for Financial Services: Protecting and Defending Financial Institutions From Global Cyber Threats With Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
The financial services industry today is in a difficult position faced with many business and security challenges as more transactions occur via online channels in the global market. The financial...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Aanval for Government and Military Agencies: Secure Public Sector Networks, Critical Infrastructures, and Classified Government Records With Continuous Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber security is now at the forefront of national security concerns as cyber criminal organizations and spies are intensifying attacks on government agencies in order to disrupt the country's...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Surviving in Cyberspace: A Game Theoretic Approach
Jun 2012
As information systems become ever more complex and the interdependence of these systems increases, a mission-critical system should have the fight-through ability to sustain damage yet survive...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Security Info-Law Against Cybercrime
Jun 2011
This paper is to study and analysis of cybercrime in order to contribute to the fight against it, by the hybrid idea LEGAL-INFO. Cybercrime is the term used for all criminal offenses that are...
Provided by Modern Science Publishers
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Whitepapers
A Probabilistic Packet Marking Scheme With LT Code for IP Traceback
Jun 2012
Cybercrime has become an important issue in the cyber-society. Distributed Denial of Service attack is the most popular attack, which uses many zombies to attack the victim, makes victim crashed...
Provided by National Taiwan University
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Whitepapers
Cyber Warfare ? A Global Threat
Jun 2009
Many countries, including India are facing terrorism from many internal as well external forces. Terrorism should not be related with metallic weapons only but also related with the digital...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Whitepapers
Safe Computing in the Era of Cyber Crime
Jul 2012
Life on the internet is a different experience. There are many parties who are interested in who the people are and what they do on the Web, all with different intentions. It is because of this...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Whitepapers
Cyber-Physical Elements of Disaster Prepared Smart Environment
Jan 2012
Recent years have ushered in tremendous advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and infrastructures for disaster management. Still, daily news on disasters has been telling...
Provided by Institute of Information Science
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Whitepapers
Resilient Voting Mechanisms for Mission Survivability in Cyberspace: Combining Replication and Diversity
Jul 2012
While information systems became ever more complex and the interdependence of these systems increased, mission-critical services should be survivable even in the presence of cyber attacks or...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Forensics Computing-Technology to Combat Cybercrime
Jul 2012
The advent of technological revolution in communications and information exchange has created sophisticated form of crime, cyber crime. Cybercrimes have more severe economic impacts than many...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
A DDS-Based Scalable and Reconfigurable Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2012
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) involve the interconnection of heterogeneous computing devices which are closely integrated with the physical processes under control. Often, these systems are...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Applying Stylometric Analysis Techniques to Counter Anonymity in Cyberspace
Feb 2012
Due to the ubiquitous nature and anonymity abuses in cyberspace, it's difficult to make criminal identity tracing in cybercrime investigation. Writeprint identification offers a valuable tool to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Testing Websites by P3R2 Model
Jul 2012
Cyber espionage at the government, corporate and individual levels has increased dramatically over the last few years. The cyberspace has become the latest domain of Chinese belligerence. There is...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Whitepapers
Impact of Malware in Cyber World: A Comparatively Study
May 2012
The boom in the cyber world can be seen as that various technologies has been developed and these technology has made a cyber life advanced the role of cyber is increasing day by day which has...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Honeypots : Fighting Against Spam
May 2012
Spam can be considered as most annoying cyber-pollution in the current scenario. Honeypots is an approach to fight against spam by information gathering and learning. First Section discusses the...
Provided by IJERT - International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology
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Whitepapers
Honeycyber: Automated Signature Generation for Zero-Day Polymorphic Worms
Sep 2008
Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) can be evaded by polymorphic worms which vary their payloads in every infection attempt. In this paper, the authors propose Honeycyber, a system...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Semantic Based Learning Approach in Education System
Jul 2012
Extensive Research works in the field of knowledge base Learning are represented by a broad spectrum of applications. Education system transform from class room system to E-Learning system which...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Comprehensive Study of Digital Forensics
Jul 2012
This paper presenting the review about digital forensics, it consists of techniques as well as various tools used to accomplish the tasks in the digital forensic process. Network forensics is...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Webcasts
The Cyberspace Data Explosion: Boon or Black Hole?
Dec 2009
The people are entering a cyber world where millions of sensors continuously collect data. From the ocean bottom to deep space, scientists are monitoring environments at unprecedented scales. On a...
Provided by University of Washington
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Whitepapers
5 Reasons to simply your life
Jul 2012
This brief speaks about how today's threats to endpoints and data are more complex, more numerous, more varied—and changing every second and highlights the need for a new solution to do more than...
Provided by McAfee
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Whitepapers
Extended Honeypot Framework to Detect Old/new Cyber Attacks
Mar 2011
In cyber space, a hot problem is to detect the newly emerged malicious objects. There are significant methodologies to detect the early detected malicious objects but not for newly emerged...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Energy-Harvesting for Source-Channel Coding in Cyber-Physical Systems
Jan 2012
The overall energy required to digitize a given physical source can be comparable to the energy required for communication of the produced information bits, especially in cyber-physical sensing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Looking Ahead in Pervasive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Cyber - Physical Convergence
Oct 2011
The physical environment is becoming more and more saturated with computing and communication entities that interact among themselves, as well as with users: virtually everything will be enabled...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Whitepapers
CYBEX - The Cybersecurity Information Exchange Framework
Sep 2010
The cybersecurity information exchange framework, known as CYBEX, is currently undergoing its first iteration of standardization efforts within ITU-T. The framework describes how cybersecurity...
Provided by MITRE
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Whitepapers
Modeling Cyber Attacks and Their Effects on Decision Process
Nov 2011
Cyber attacks are designed to affect human behavior by creating confusion and information overload. Although cyber attacks mainly aim to stimulate irrational behavior, there is limited work in the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime
Jun 2012
In this paper, the authors present what they believe to be the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. It was prepared in response to a request from the UK Ministry of Defence following...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Detection in Resource-Constrained Cyber Networks: A Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Apr 2012
The authors consider a large-scale cyber network with N components. Each component is either in a healthy state (0) or an abnormal state (1). Due to intrusions, the state of each component...
Provided by University of California
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Whitepapers
Graduate School Cyber Portfolio: The Innovative Menu for Sustainable Development
Nov 2011
In today's milieu, new demands and trends emerge in the field of Education giving teachers of Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) no choice but to be innovative to cope with the fast changing...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
An Approach Towards Improved Cyber Security by Hardware Acceleration of Open SSL Cryptographic Functions
May 2012
Providing improved Information Security to the rapidly developing Cybernet System has become a vital factor in the present technically networked world. The information security concept becomes a...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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White Papers
Automatic Extraction of Secrets From Malware
Aug 2011
As promising results have been obtained in defeating code obfuscation techniques, malware authors have adopted protection approaches to hide malware-related data from analysis. Consequently, the...
Provided by Arizona State University
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Research
How IT is ganging up on organised cybercrime
May 2012
Lone criminals no longer dominate digital crime. According to research from Detica, 80 percent of internet crime is perpetrated by co-ordinated groups. Cybercriminals are working together to wreak...
Provided by ZDNet
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White Papers
CSOnet: A Metropolitan Scale Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network for Storm Water Management
Jan 2008
This paper describes recent a metropolitan (citywide) scale deployment of a sensor-actuator network called CSOnet. CSOnet is a sensor-actuator network that monitors and controls the frequency of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Participatory Cyber Physical System in Public Transport Application
Jan 2012
Population in the urban areas around the world is increasing yet energy and natural resources which are nonrenewable, have continued to deplete. This scenario leads one to the many challenges...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Defining next-generation network intrusion prevention
May 2012
There's no question of the increase and severity in advanced threats attacking networks, application and data. The new, sophisticated and organised criminals are capable of launching advanced,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Uncover cybersecurity threats and risk with advanced visualisation
May 2012
ArcSight Interactive Discovery gives you an unprecedented understanding of cyberthreats through powerful visual analytics, allowing you to discover hidden risks and easily communicate findings.
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
PCI compliance on virtual architecture
May 2012
Security and regulatory compliance become business inhibitors for many organisations. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard was established in 2006, and in order to achieve PCI...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
How to defend mobile applications
May 2012
The standard for being on the cutting edge of business is a mobile storefront on smartphones and tablets. Without this mobile presence, you'll lose business to competitors who have them. With this...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
Scada after Stuxnet: Best practice to reduce risk
May 2012
In June 2009, a sophisticated and destructive digital worm was unleashed with a single-minded purpose: to cripple the industrial control infrastructure instrumental to Iran's uranium enrichment...
Provided by HP
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White Papers
Rhythmic Tasks: A New Task Model With Continually Varying Periods for Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2012
Traditional mechanical subsystems in automobiles are being replaced by electronically controlled systems, often with no mechanical backup. This trend towards "Drive-by-wire" systems is becoming...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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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
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
-
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
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
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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
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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White Papers
SCADA-Specific Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems: A Survey and Taxonomy
Apr 2010
Due to standardization and connectivity to the Internet, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems now face the threat of cyber attacks. SCADA systems were designed without cyber...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0
Jan 2008
The authors review the emergence of a diverse collection of modern Internet scale programming approaches, collectively known as Web 2.0, and compare these to the goals of cyberinfrastructure and...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
A Certificateless Signature Scheme for Mobile Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2008
Due to the unique characteristics of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as interaction with the physical world, many new research challenges arise. Many CPS applications will be implemented on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Link Privacy in Social Networks
Feb 2008
The authors consider a privacy threat to a social network in which the goal of an attacker is to obtain knowledge of a significant fraction of the links in the network. They formalize the typical...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Cybersecurity for Electric Power Control and Automation Systems
Dec 2007
Disruption of electric power operations can be catastrophic on the national security and economy. Due to the complexity of widely dispersed assets and the interdependency between computer,...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Cyber Security in the National Market System
Sep 2009
A secure financial market system is critical to the national economy. Yet, the authors show that over the past thirty years, financial market regulations have actually increased the vulnerability...
Provided by University of Arizona
