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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
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White Papers
A Stochastic Game Model With Imperfect Information in Cyber Security
Jan 2010
While there are significant advances in information technology and infrastructure which offer new opportunities, cyberspace is still far from completely secured. Recently, researchers have started...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
A Survey of Game Theory as Applied to Network Security
Sep 2009
Network security is a complex and challenging problem. The area of network defense mechanism design is receiving immense attention from the research community for more than two decades. However,...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices
Jun 2007
Cyber foraging is the transient and opportunistic use of compute servers by mobile devices. The short market life of such devices makes rapid modification of applications for remote execution an...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Sensor Network Navigation Without Locations
May 2009
The authors propose a pervasive usage of the sensor network infrastructure as a cyber-physical system for navigating internal users in locations of potential danger. The proposed application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Bundle: A Group Based Programming Abstraction for Cyber Physical Systems
Feb 2010
This paper describes a novel group based programming abstraction called a 'Bundle' for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Similar to other programming abstractions, a Bundle creates logical collections...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
Challenges in Security for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
The design of security for cyber-physical systems must take into account several characteristics common to such systems. Among these are feedback between the cyber and physical environment,...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Continuous Assurance for Cyber Physical System Security
Jul 2009
The security and privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has been the subject of a lot of concern in the recent past especially in the context of the safety of critical infrastructure such as the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Position Paper for Workshop on Future Directions in Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical System (CPS) security presents new problems inasmuch as cyber-physical systems are different from either information systems (IS) or Physical Control Systems (PCS) in that there are...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Cyber-Physical Systems Security-Challenges and Research Ideas
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are at a crossroads. Typical CPSs with multi-loop control consisting of device controllers, plant-level distributed control, and system-wide SCADA components are...
Provided by BBN Technologies
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White Papers
Power Infrastructure Security: Fundamental Insights of Potential Cyber Attacks and Their Impacts on the Power Grid
Jul 2009
The information infrastructure for the power networks was often viewed as a collection of individual communication channels, separate databases, multiple systems, and different protocols....
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Cyber-Related Risk Assessment and Critical Asset Identification Within the Power Grid
Jul 2009
This paper introduces a new way to detect and improve the vulnerability of bulk power systems against the intrusion and malicious acts of cyber hackers. For this aim, detecting the most vulnerable...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Position Paper: Protecting Process Control Systems Against Lifecycle Attacks Using Trust Anchors
Jul 2009
Critical infrastructure systems are vulnerable to physical and cyber attack. Securing these systems is a top priority for the U.S., but ongoing efforts ignore important aspects of the Information...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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White Papers
Position Paper: Modeling and Simulation for Process Control System Cyber Security Research, Development and Applications
Jul 2009
This paper advocates for increasing the utilization of hybrid modeling and simulation technologies for understanding and developing mitigations for cyber threats upon Industrial Control Systems...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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White Papers
Autonomous Defenses for Security Attacks in Pervasive CPS Infrastructure
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate computation with sensing, control, and physical systems and will enable development of next-generation services and smart infrastructure across many...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
Addressing Safety and Security Contradictions in Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Modern cyber-physical systems are found in important domains such as automobiles, medical devices, building automation, avionics, etc. Hence, they are increasingly prone to security violations....
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
A Policy and Trust Driven Framework for Securing Cyber Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Cyber Physical Systems play a crucial role in national infrastructure and securing them is of vital importance to national security. There has been ample evidence in the recent past exposing the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Visual Analytics in Support of Secure Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7), released in 2003, firmly established the term critical infrastructure protection and directed action be taken to identify, prioritize, and...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Role-Based Access Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Using Shibboleth
Jul 2009
In this paper, the authors propose a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for the distributed resources in a cyber-physical system. Current identity-based access control systems cause...
Provided by Wright State University
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White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems Requirements to Mitigate Stress Points by Introduction of Distributed Energy Resources Into Scalable Grid Environments
Jul 2009
The purpose of this paper is to describe the new approaches necessary to protect the new power grid This paper advocates the approach of protecting critical subnetworks as a reconfiguration...
Provided by Raytheon
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White Papers
Access Control Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
With the growth of wireless networks and mobile devices, the authors are moving closer towards an era of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs). Such systems have the potential to benefit numerous...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Physically Restricted Authentication and Encryption for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by the close linkage of computational resources and physical devices. These systems can be deployed in a number of critical infrastructure settings....
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
The Economics of Cybersecurity: Principles and Policy Options
Dec 2010
Economics puts the challenges facing cybersecurity into perspective better than a purely technical approach does. Systems often fail because the organizations that defend them do not bear the full...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Would a "Cyber Warrior" Protect Us? Exploring Trade-Offs Between Attack and Defense of Information Systems
Sep 2010
As information security shifts from the realm of computer science to national security, the priority for safe and secure systems will be balanced against the appeal of using information insecurity...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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
BRACE: An Assertion Framework for Debugging Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 2012
Developing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is challenging because correctness depends on both logical and physical states, which are collectively difficult to observe. The developer often need to...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Sequential Tests for the Detection of Voice Activity and the Recognition of Cyber Exploits
Nov 2011
The authors consider the problem of automated Voice Activity Detection (VAD), in the presence of noise. To attain this objective, they introduce a Sequential Detection of Change Test (SDCT),...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Multicast Algorithms and Boolean Logic
Mar 2011
The evaluation of agents is a robust obstacle. In this paper, the authors show the extensive unification of object-oriented languages and the Turing machine, which embodies the key principles of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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Whitepapers
Securing email in the cloud
May 2012
Security is more than keeping unauthorised users out of your network and viruses off your desktops. Security means ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business information....
Provided by Mimecast
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Whitepapers
Email security: A comparison of the major players
May 2012
Email is an essential communications and collaboration tool for all organisations and email messages contain a great deal of sensitive and often confidential information that is among the most...
Provided by Mimecast
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White Papers
Cyber Security Threats Detection Using Ensemble Architecture
Apr 2011
This paper describes an ensemble design for cyber security threats detection, which fuses the results from multiple classifiers together to make a final assessment decision. For promoting both...
Provided by East Carolina University
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White Papers
Is the Internet for Porn? an Insight Into the Online Adult Industry
May 2010
The online adult industry is among the most profitable business branches on the Internet, and its web sites attract large amounts of visitors and traffic. Nevertheless, no study has yet...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
On the Capacity of Rate-Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links Under Jamming
Apr 2012
Over the last decades, wireless communication proved to be an enabling technology to an increasingly large number of applications. The convenience of wireless and its support of mobility has...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
Segmented State Space Traversal for Conformance Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2011
Quantitative conformance testing of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) exploits time series of measurements, such as temperature or energy, for validating the correctness of deployed systems. This paper...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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White Papers
A Low-Energy Fast Cyber Foraging Mechanism for Mobile Devices
Oct 2011
The ever increasing demands for using resource-constrained mobile devices for running more resource intensive applications nowadays has initiated the development of cyber foraging solutions that...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Service-Oriented Architecture for Weaponry and Battle Command and Control Systems in Warfighting
Feb 2012
Military is one of many industries that is more computer-dependent than ever before, from soldiers with computerized weapons, and tactical wireless devices, to commanders with advanced battle...
Provided by IRPN Press
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White Papers
Cybernetic Society Concept for a Decision-Making MAS Model
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors present a decision making MAS based on competitive agents equipped with advanced and mutant interaction methods. They describe the dynamic environment of the MAS, and...
Provided by Science and Engineering Research Support soCiety
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White Papers
A Rule Based Event Correlation Approach for Physical and Logical Security Convergence
Jan 2012
Cyber threats have rapidly evolved in frequency and sophistication. As a result, physical and logical security systems are an essential solution to protect enterprise assets. Most enterprises...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Service-Oriented Middleware Architectures for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jan 2012
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) roughly refer to the integration of computation (cyber) and physical processes. In CPS, embedded devices/computers and various sensors are interconnected to monitor...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Cybercrime: A Threat to Network Security
Feb 2012
This research paper discusses the issue of cyber crime in detail, including the types, methods and effects of cyber crimes on a network. In addition to this, the paper explores network security in...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Transmitting Cryptographic Data Through Steganography
Mar 2012
Computers are being used worldwide. The internet connects the world as one. Cybercrime is a huge issue which can be resolved by some approaches. In this paper an approach is introduced to ensure...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Improving Accuracy of Authentication Process Via Short Free Text Using Bayesian Network
Mar 2012
The internet security problems are a crucial threat to all users in the cyber world. One of the important problems about internet security concerned with user classification and authentication....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Assuring Mission Assurance in a Tactical-Cyber Environment
Oct 2010
Mission assurance is the justified confidence from a system customer and user that the system will function as intended without exploitable vulnerabilities. For military communications and sensor...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Measurement, Identification and Calculation of Cyber Defense Metrics
Oct 2010
This paper presents performance metrics to be used for evaluation of cyber dynamic defense solutions. Currently, there are no standard, industry-defined metrics or benchmarks for evaluating cyber...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Six ways to make cloud work
Apr 2012
CIOs and their teams can make the cloud work for growing UK enterprises. By moving services to the cloud, which offers lower costs and flexibility, they can start to work more closely with...
Provided by Phoenix
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White Papers
Performing Cyber Security Analysis Using a Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Testbed
Oct 2010
Cyber security analysis tools are necessary to evaluate the security, reliability, and resilience of networked information systems against cyber attack. It is common practice in modern cyber...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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White Papers
Defining CPS Challenges in a Sustainable Electricity Grid
Mar 2012
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is characterized as complex distributed systems exhibiting substantial uncertainty due to interactions with the physical world. Today's electric grids are often...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
E-Commerce and Attached E-Risk With Cyber Crime
Mar 2010
Electronic commerce, also called E-commerce, is increasing around the globe. E-commerce mostly consists of electronic business transactions related to the purchase and delivery of goods and...
Provided by Charotar University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Security Architecture for Cyber- Physical Systems
Aug 2011
Security of control systems is becoming a pivotal concern in critical national infrastructures such as the power grid and nuclear plants. In this paper, the authors adopt a hierarchical viewpoint...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Fuzzy Logic Based Anomaly Detection for Embedded Network Security Cyber Sensor
Apr 2011
Resiliency and security in critical infrastructure control systems in the modern world of cyber terrorism constitute a relevant concern. Developing a network security system specifically tailored...
Provided by University of Idaho
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White Papers
Detecting Zero-Day Attack Signatures Using Honeycomb in a Virtualized Network
Dec 2011
Self-propagating malware, such as worms, have prompted cyber attacks that compromise regular computer systems via exploiting memory-related vulnerabilities which present threats to computer...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
A Two-Constraint Approach to Risky Cybersecurity Experiment Management
Apr 2008
Cybersecurity research demands extensive experimentation to be validated. This experimentation is inherently risky: it may involve any combination of live malicious code, disruptive actions and...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
A Failed State of Security: A Rational Analysis of Deterrence Theory and the Effect on CyberCrime
Mar 2012
In reviewing this paper on criminology and information security it appears that, while they share many common themes, there is a disconnect between the criminological theory and its application in...
Provided by Mark Consulting Group
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White Papers
Improving Healthcare Risk Assessments to Maximize Security Budgets
Mar 2011
Healthcare is undergoing major changes that are being driven by medical, consumer, IT, and security trends. While these trends. While these trends deliver compelling benefits to healthcare...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Characterizing Cyber-Resiliency
Oct 2010
The restoration requirements for backbone network design have historically been driven by the need to address link failures due, e.g., to accidental fiber cuts. Only in the last 5-7 years the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Situation Awareness of Multistage Cyber Attacks by Semantic Event Fusion
Oct 2010
In this paper, the authors present strategies for real-time Situation Awareness of multistage cyber-attacks by utilizing heterogeneous sensor event streams. A flexible and practically usable...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
PhishGILLNET - Phishing Detection Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
Mar 2012
Identity theft is one of the most profitable crimes committed by felons. In the cyber space, this is commonly achieved using phishing. The authors propose here robust server side methodology to...
Provided by EURASIP
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White Papers
Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks and Insider Attacks
Mar 2011
Cyber intrusion is becoming an increasingly global and urgent problem. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are deployed to identify intrusions and mitigate their damage. A stand alone IDS does not...
Provided by University of Waterloo
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White Papers
A Hybrid Cognitive-Neurophysiological Approach to Resilient Cyber Security
Oct 2010
Cyber infrastructure remains vulnerable. Communications systems lack resiliency, a characteristic common to many natural systems. In this paper, the authors present an interdisciplinary...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Cyber Security Framework for Enterprise System Development: Enhancing Domain Security Through ESM
Oct 2010
Securing the DoD information network is a tremendous task due to its size, access locations and the amount of network intrusion attempts on a daily basis. This analysis investigates...
Provided by United States Department of Defense
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White Papers
Cybersecurity: A Joint Terminal Engineering Office Perspective
Oct 2010
The integration of cyberspace and space systems development and operations activities has become essential to the successful achievement of Air Force SPace Command (AFSPC) Net-Centric mission...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Simulation of PKI-Enabled Communication for Identity Management Using CyberCIEGE
Oct 2010
CyberCIEGE is a sophisticated network security simulation packaged as a video game and used by educators around the world to enhance information assurance education and training at universities,...
Provided by Naval Postgraduate School
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White Papers
Cybersecurity Risk Management
Oct 2010
Mission systems have become increasingly integrated with and dependent on the Information Technology (IT) and digital communications systems of cyberspace, resulting in increased susceptibility of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Cyber-Physical Systems for Environment Abstraction
Mar 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) bridge the virtual cyber world with the real physical world. For representing a physical environment in cyber, CPS devices/nodes are assigned to collect data in a...
Provided by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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White Papers
A Stochastic Game Model With Imperfect Information in Cyber Security
Jan 2010
While there are significant advances in information technology and infrastructure which offer new opportunities, cyberspace is still far from completely secured. Recently, researchers have started...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Game Theory for Cyber Security
Apr 2010
While there are significant advances in information technology and infrastructure which offer new opportunities, cyberspace is still far from completely secured. In many cases, the employed...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Survey of Game Theory as Applied to Network Security
Sep 2009
Network security is a complex and challenging problem. The area of network defense mechanism design is receiving immense attention from the research community for more than two decades. However,...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices
Jun 2007
Cyber foraging is the transient and opportunistic use of compute servers by mobile devices. The short market life of such devices makes rapid modification of applications for remote execution an...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Sensor Network Navigation Without Locations
May 2009
The authors propose a pervasive usage of the sensor network infrastructure as a cyber-physical system for navigating internal users in locations of potential danger. The proposed application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Bundle: A Group Based Programming Abstraction for Cyber Physical Systems
Feb 2010
This paper describes a novel group based programming abstraction called a 'Bundle' for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Similar to other programming abstractions, a Bundle creates logical collections...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
Challenges in Security for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
The design of security for cyber-physical systems must take into account several characteristics common to such systems. Among these are feedback between the cyber and physical environment,...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Information Security is a domain of IT that has a well developed body of knowledge, and a cadre of practitioners with significant experience in securing IT systems. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)...
Provided by University of Houston
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Whitepapers
Continuous Assurance for Cyber Physical System Security
Jul 2009
The security and privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has been the subject of a lot of concern in the recent past especially in the context of the safety of critical infrastructure such as the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Position Paper for Workshop on Future Directions in Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical System (CPS) security presents new problems inasmuch as cyber-physical systems are different from either information systems (IS) or Physical Control Systems (PCS) in that there are...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
Cyber-Physical Systems Security-Challenges and Research Ideas
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are at a crossroads. Typical CPSs with multi-loop control consisting of device controllers, plant-level distributed control, and system-wide SCADA components are...
Provided by BBN Technologies
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White Papers
Power Infrastructure Security: Fundamental Insights of Potential Cyber Attacks and Their Impacts on the Power Grid
Jul 2009
The information infrastructure for the power networks was often viewed as a collection of individual communication channels, separate databases, multiple systems, and different protocols....
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Cyber-Related Risk Assessment and Critical Asset Identification Within the Power Grid
Jul 2009
This paper introduces a new way to detect and improve the vulnerability of bulk power systems against the intrusion and malicious acts of cyber hackers. For this aim, detecting the most vulnerable...
Provided by Rutgers University
-
White Papers
Position Paper: Protecting Process Control Systems Against Lifecycle Attacks Using Trust Anchors
Jul 2009
Critical infrastructure systems are vulnerable to physical and cyber attack. Securing these systems is a top priority for the U.S., but ongoing efforts ignore important aspects of the Information...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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White Papers
Position Paper: Modeling and Simulation for Process Control System Cyber Security Research, Development and Applications
Jul 2009
This paper advocates for increasing the utilization of hybrid modeling and simulation technologies for understanding and developing mitigations for cyber threats upon Industrial Control Systems...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
-
White Papers
Autonomous Defenses for Security Attacks in Pervasive CPS Infrastructure
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate computation with sensing, control, and physical systems and will enable development of next-generation services and smart infrastructure across many...
Provided by University of Virginia
-
White Papers
Addressing Safety and Security Contradictions in Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Modern cyber-physical systems are found in important domains such as automobiles, medical devices, building automation, avionics, etc. Hence, they are increasingly prone to security violations....
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
A Policy and Trust Driven Framework for Securing Cyber Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Cyber Physical Systems play a crucial role in national infrastructure and securing them is of vital importance to national security. There has been ample evidence in the recent past exposing the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Visual Analytics in Support of Secure Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7), released in 2003, firmly established the term critical infrastructure protection and directed action be taken to identify, prioritize, and...
Provided by University of Washington
-
White Papers
Role-Based Access Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Using Shibboleth
Jul 2009
In this paper, the authors propose a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for the distributed resources in a cyber-physical system. Current identity-based access control systems cause...
Provided by Wright State University
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White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems Requirements to Mitigate Stress Points by Introduction of Distributed Energy Resources Into Scalable Grid Environments
Jul 2009
The purpose of this paper is to describe the new approaches necessary to protect the new power grid This paper advocates the approach of protecting critical subnetworks as a reconfiguration...
Provided by Raytheon
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White Papers
Access Control Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
With the growth of wireless networks and mobile devices, the authors are moving closer towards an era of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs). Such systems have the potential to benefit numerous...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Physically Restricted Authentication and Encryption for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by the close linkage of computational resources and physical devices. These systems can be deployed in a number of critical infrastructure settings....
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
The Economics of Cybersecurity: Principles and Policy Options
Dec 2010
Economics puts the challenges facing cybersecurity into perspective better than a purely technical approach does. Systems often fail because the organizations that defend them do not bear the full...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Would a "Cyber Warrior" Protect Us? Exploring Trade-Offs Between Attack and Defense of Information Systems
Sep 2010
As information security shifts from the realm of computer science to national security, the priority for safe and secure systems will be balanced against the appeal of using information insecurity...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges
May 2008
This paper examines the challenges in designing such systems, and in particular raises the question of whether today's computing and networking technologies provide an adequate foundation for CPS....
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR) Data Dashboard Report #1: CERT Data Sources and Prototype Dashboard System
Aug 2009
Growing global interconnection and interdependency of computer networks, in combination with increased sophistication of cyber attacks over time, demonstrate the need for better understanding of...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
A Study of Link Farm Distribution and Evolution Using a Time Series of Web Snapshots
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors study the overall link-based spam structure and its evolution which would be helpful for the development of robust analysis tools and research for Web spamming as a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Dark Side of Social Networking Communities
Jun 2007
Online social networking communities are connecting hundreds of millions of individuals across the globe and facilitating new modes of interaction. Due to their immense popularity, an important...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Analyzing Self-Defense Investments in Internet Security Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Mar 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet user...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Women in Cyber-security: A Study of Career Advancement
Oct 2008
As cyber-security provides more jobs and becomes central to company operations, women's advancement to executive and managerial positions will have serious consequences for gender equity in the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Cyber Security Predictions for the Next Decade
Jan 2010
The first decade of this century has been a significant period for cyber security. As the authors look back at the last ten years - which started with attacks at the network layer with major worms...
Provided by Cenzic
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White Papers
Middleware Integration and Deployment Strategies for Cyber Infrastructures
Mar 2008
Virtual Organizations require infrastructure that meets their scientific needs. Traditionally, a VO can require access to computational back-ends that are suited for interactive applications,...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
A Game Theoretical Approach to Communication Security
Mar 2011
The increased reliance on the Internet has made information and communication systems more vulnerable to security attacks. Many recent incidents demonstrate this vulnerability, such as the rapid...
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Addressing Modeling Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2011
This paper focuses on the challenges of modeling cyber-physical systems that arise from the intrinsic heterogeneity, concurrency, and sensitivity to timing of such systems. It uses a portion of an...
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Audio-Based Self-Organizing Authentication for Pervasive Computing: A Cyber-Physical Approach
Jul 2009
Pervasive computing is fast becoming a reality with rapid advance in computing and networking technologies. It has the characteristics of scalability, invisibility, and the absence of the fixed...
Provided by Arizona State University
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Green and Sustainable Cyber-Physical Security Solutions for Body Area Networks
Jun 2009
Wireless sensor-based Body Area Networks (BAN) can play a major role in providing individualized health-care. Given their limited power sources, sensors in BAN have to be energy-efficient to...
Provided by Arizona State University
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VTAC: Virtual Terrain Assisted Impact Assessment for Cyber Attacks
Jan 2008
Overwhelming intrusion alerts have made timely response to network security breaches a difficult task. Correlating alerts to produce a higher level view of intrusion state of a network, thus,...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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Projecting Cyber Attacks Through Variable Length Markov Models
Apr 2008
Previous works in the area of network security have emphasized the creation of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) to flag malicious network traffic and computer usage, and the development of...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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Virtual Terrain: A Security-Based Representation of a Computer Network
Jan 2008
Much research has been put forth towards detection, correlating, and prediction of cyber attacks in recent years. As this set of research progresses, there is an increasing need for contextual...
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