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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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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...
Provided by University of California
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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...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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White Papers
FuSIA: Future Situation and Impact Awareness
May 2008
Recent cyber security research has focused on providing a situation awareness of computer networks by identifying incoming attacks. FuSIA: Future Situation and Impact Awareness seeks to extend...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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Intrusion Activity Projection for Cyber Situational Awareness
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. Raw IDS data may be...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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White Papers
High Level Information Fusion for Tracking and Projection of Multistage 3 Cyber Attacks
Jun 2007
The use of computer networks has become a necessity for government, industry, and personal businesses. Protection and defense against cyber attacks on computer networks, however, are becoming...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Community Cyber Infrastructure Enabled Discovery in Science and Engineering
Jan 2008
Cyber infrastructure for discovery in science and engineering has not only enhanced the process of discovery but has also enabled new venues for discovery including systems biology, ecosystem...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Usable Key Agreement in Home Networks
Dec 2008
With the rapid emergence of new home networking technologies and proliferation of devices that use them, innovation has focused on rich functionality and largely ignored the associated security...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Pricing and Investments in Internet Security A Cyber-Insurance Perspective
Mar 2011
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Seeing Beyond the Surface: Understanding and Tracking Fraudulent Cyber Activities
Jan 2010
The malaise of electronic spam mail that solicit illicit partnership using bogus business proposals (popularly called 419 mails) remained unabated on the internet despite concerted efforts. In...
Provided by Southern University and A&M College
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White Papers
A High-confidence Cyber-Physical Alarm System: Design and Implementation
Oct 2010
Most traditional alarm systems cannot address security threats in a satisfactory manner. To alleviate this problem, the authors developed a high-confidence Cyber-Physical Alarm System (CPAS), a...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
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White Papers
Cyber-Physical Control Over Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks With Packet Loss
Feb 2010
There is a growing interest in design and implementation of cyber-physical control systems over Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs). Thanks to the use of wireless communications and...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
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White Papers
A Cyber Security Study of a SCADA Energy Management System: Stealthy Deception Attacks on the State Estimator
Nov 2010
The electrical power network is a critical infrastructure in today's society, so its safe and reliable operation is of major concern. State estimators are commonly used in power networks, for...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Case Studies
No IT Staff, No Worries
Sep 2009
Cyber cafes, or Internet cafes in Malaysia are social focal points usually frequented by students and young adults where besides catching up with friends, the main activities are surfing the Web,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
On-line secret sharing
Jul 2010
In a perfect secret sharing scheme the dealer distributes shares to participants so that qualified subsets can recover the secret, while unqualified subsets have no information on the secret. In...
Provided by Central European University
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Webcasts
Your Online Business: Cyber Attacks
Jan 2011
The threat of cyber attacks is a real concern for businesses of any size. For smaller companies, there are certain steps one can take to protect the business from electronic intruders. Rich...
Provided by American Express Company
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Webcasts
Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-Century Cyber Weapon
Mar 2011
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: Its purpose. Ralph Langner and...
Provided by TED Conferences
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White Papers
The Dartmouth Cyber Security Initiative
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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White Papers
Trusted Virtual Containers on Demand
Oct 2010
TPM-based trusted computing aspires to use hardware and cryptography to provide a remote relying party with assurances about the trustworthiness of a computing environment. However, standard...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Open Cyber-Architecture for Electrical Energy Markets
Sep 2010
Automated control and management of large-scale physical systems is a challenging problem in a wide variety of applications including: Power grids, transportation networks, and telecommunication...
Provided by University of Nevada
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White Papers
Towards Ameliorating Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Aug 2009
Cybercrime is becoming ever more serious. Findings from 2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey show an upward trend that demonstrates a need for a timely review of existing approaches to fighting...
Provided by University of Ibadan
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White Papers
A Mathematical Theory of Internet Security Investments Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Sep 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Thermal-Aware Task Scheduling for Homogeneous High-Performance Computing Data Centers: A Cyber-Physical Approach
Nov 2008
High-performance computing data centers have been rapidly growing, both in number and size. Thermal management of data centers can address dominant problems associated with cooling such as the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Adaptive-Reliability Cyber-Physical Transport Protocol for Spatio-Temporal Data
May 2009
In this paper, the authors propose a new transport protocol for data collection in sensor networks that monitor physical phenomena. In a network with variable channel condition, this protocol...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Real-Time and Embedded Systems Building Blocks for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2008
By converging the cyber world with the physical world, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is expected to create a great impact on computer science and the society. This paper proposes several real-time...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Trust, Risk and Economic Benefits in Online Environments
Jan 2011
Lack of trust is identified as one of the main constraints on online environments, particularly in terms of consumer protection. Although the elements that contribute to building trust can be...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Generalized Discriminant Analysis Algorithm for Feature Reduction in Cyber Attack Detection System
Nov 2009
This Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) has provided an extremely powerful approach to extracting non-linear features. The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
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White Papers
Software Vulnerabilities, Banking Threats, Botnets and Malware Self-Protection Technologies
Jan 2011
Nowadays, there is a huge variety of cyber threats that can be quite dangerous not only for big companies but also for an ordinary user, who can be a potential victim for cybercriminals when using...
Provided by King Saud University
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White Papers
Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems: Security, Timing Analysis and Soft Error Protection
Jan 2011
The power grid represents a distributed cyber-physical system that is essential to the every-day life. Larger-scale black-outs are known to have a severe economic and safety impact, as historical...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 2009
Embedded systems, particularly those with temporal constraints known as real-time systems, are increasingly deployed in every day life. Such systems that interact with the physical world are also...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
An Ensemble Approach for Feature Selection of Cyber Attack Dataset
Dec 2009
Feature selection is an indispensable pre-processing step when mining huge datasets that can significantly improve the overall system performance. Therefore in this paper the authors focus on a...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
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White Papers
Genetic Algorithms, TABU Search and Simulated Annealing: A Comparison Between Three Approaches for the Cryptanalysis of Transposition Cipher
May 2009
Due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks, the demand for effective internet security is increasing. Cryptology is the science and study of systems for secret communication. It consists of two...
Provided by JATIT
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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
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
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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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White Papers
High Level Information Fusion for Tracking and Projection of Multistage 3 Cyber Attacks
Jun 2007
The use of computer networks has become a necessity for government, industry, and personal businesses. Protection and defense against cyber attacks on computer networks, however, are becoming...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Community Cyber Infrastructure Enabled Discovery in Science and Engineering
Jan 2008
Cyber infrastructure for discovery in science and engineering has not only enhanced the process of discovery but has also enabled new venues for discovery including systems biology, ecosystem...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Usable Key Agreement in Home Networks
Dec 2008
With the rapid emergence of new home networking technologies and proliferation of devices that use them, innovation has focused on rich functionality and largely ignored the associated security...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Pricing and Investments in Internet Security A Cyber-Insurance Perspective
Mar 2011
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Seeing Beyond the Surface: Understanding and Tracking Fraudulent Cyber Activities
Jan 2010
The malaise of electronic spam mail that solicit illicit partnership using bogus business proposals (popularly called 419 mails) remained unabated on the internet despite concerted efforts. In...
Provided by Southern University and A&M College
-
White Papers
A High-confidence Cyber-Physical Alarm System: Design and Implementation
Oct 2010
Most traditional alarm systems cannot address security threats in a satisfactory manner. To alleviate this problem, the authors developed a high-confidence Cyber-Physical Alarm System (CPAS), a...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
-
White Papers
Cyber-Physical Control Over Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks With Packet Loss
Feb 2010
There is a growing interest in design and implementation of cyber-physical control systems over Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs). Thanks to the use of wireless communications and...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
-
White Papers
A Cyber Security Study of a SCADA Energy Management System: Stealthy Deception Attacks on the State Estimator
Nov 2010
The electrical power network is a critical infrastructure in today's society, so its safe and reliable operation is of major concern. State estimators are commonly used in power networks, for...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
-
Case Studies
No IT Staff, No Worries
Sep 2009
Cyber cafes, or Internet cafes in Malaysia are social focal points usually frequented by students and young adults where besides catching up with friends, the main activities are surfing the Web,...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
On-line secret sharing
Jul 2010
In a perfect secret sharing scheme the dealer distributes shares to participants so that qualified subsets can recover the secret, while unqualified subsets have no information on the secret. In...
Provided by Central European University
-
Webcasts
Your Online Business: Cyber Attacks
Jan 2011
The threat of cyber attacks is a real concern for businesses of any size. For smaller companies, there are certain steps one can take to protect the business from electronic intruders. Rich...
Provided by American Express Company
-
Webcasts
Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-Century Cyber Weapon
Mar 2011
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: Its purpose. Ralph Langner and...
Provided by TED Conferences
-
White Papers
The Dartmouth Cyber Security Initiative
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
-
White Papers
Trusted Virtual Containers on Demand
Oct 2010
TPM-based trusted computing aspires to use hardware and cryptography to provide a remote relying party with assurances about the trustworthiness of a computing environment. However, standard...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Open Cyber-Architecture for Electrical Energy Markets
Sep 2010
Automated control and management of large-scale physical systems is a challenging problem in a wide variety of applications including: Power grids, transportation networks, and telecommunication...
Provided by University of Nevada
-
White Papers
Towards Ameliorating Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Aug 2009
Cybercrime is becoming ever more serious. Findings from 2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey show an upward trend that demonstrates a need for a timely review of existing approaches to fighting...
Provided by University of Ibadan
-
White Papers
A Mathematical Theory of Internet Security Investments Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Sep 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
Energy-Efficient Thermal-Aware Task Scheduling for Homogeneous High-Performance Computing Data Centers: A Cyber-Physical Approach
Nov 2008
High-performance computing data centers have been rapidly growing, both in number and size. Thermal management of data centers can address dominant problems associated with cooling such as the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
An Adaptive-Reliability Cyber-Physical Transport Protocol for Spatio-Temporal Data
May 2009
In this paper, the authors propose a new transport protocol for data collection in sensor networks that monitor physical phenomena. In a network with variable channel condition, this protocol...
Provided by University of Illinois
-
White Papers
Real-Time and Embedded Systems Building Blocks for Cyber-Physical Systems
Jul 2008
By converging the cyber world with the physical world, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is expected to create a great impact on computer science and the society. This paper proposes several real-time...
Provided by University of Illinois
-
White Papers
Trust, Risk and Economic Benefits in Online Environments
Jan 2011
Lack of trust is identified as one of the main constraints on online environments, particularly in terms of consumer protection. Although the elements that contribute to building trust can be...
Provided by Purdue University
-
White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Generalized Discriminant Analysis Algorithm for Feature Reduction in Cyber Attack Detection System
Nov 2009
This Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) has provided an extremely powerful approach to extracting non-linear features. The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
-
White Papers
Software Vulnerabilities, Banking Threats, Botnets and Malware Self-Protection Technologies
Jan 2011
Nowadays, there is a huge variety of cyber threats that can be quite dangerous not only for big companies but also for an ordinary user, who can be a potential victim for cybercriminals when using...
Provided by King Saud University
-
White Papers
Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems: Security, Timing Analysis and Soft Error Protection
Jan 2011
The power grid represents a distributed cyber-physical system that is essential to the every-day life. Larger-scale black-outs are known to have a severe economic and safety impact, as historical...
Provided by North Carolina State University
-
White Papers
Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 2009
Embedded systems, particularly those with temporal constraints known as real-time systems, are increasingly deployed in every day life. Such systems that interact with the physical world are also...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
An Ensemble Approach for Feature Selection of Cyber Attack Dataset
Dec 2009
Feature selection is an indispensable pre-processing step when mining huge datasets that can significantly improve the overall system performance. Therefore in this paper the authors focus on a...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
-
White Papers
Genetic Algorithms, TABU Search and Simulated Annealing: A Comparison Between Three Approaches for the Cryptanalysis of Transposition Cipher
May 2009
Due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks, the demand for effective internet security is increasing. Cryptology is the science and study of systems for secret communication. It consists of two...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
ìSETL: A Set Based Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2011
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are poised to play a pivotal role in engineering new solutions to a variety of societal-scale problems, such as energy conservation, climate change, healthcare,...
Provided by Purdue University
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Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Second-Order Systems With Applications to Power Networks
Dec 2010
Observers for distributed fault detection of interconnected second-order linear time invariant systems are studied. Particularly, networked systems under consensus protocols are considered and it...
Provided by Australian National University
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Cyber Security Analysis of State Estimators in Electric Power Systems
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors analyze the cyber security of state estimators in Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems operating in power grids. Safe and reliable operation of these...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
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A Webomatrics Analysis Between Taiwan and China Academic Web by Sitation Analysis
May 2008
The cyberspace is an important part for their academic interflow. The paper is based on the situation analysis and proposes Web Impact Factor (WIF) as an indicator for web space analysis. The...
Provided by National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
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Modeling the Spread of Mobile Malware
May 2008
The popularity of mobile phones and the Internet makes it more enticing for hackers to write viruses and create malicious code. There are currently over 150 mobile viruses today. As a result, the...
Provided by Howard University
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Cyber Security Governance
Sep 2010
Cyber Prep is a conceptual framework, together with a practical methodology, which an organization uses to define and implement its strategy for addressing adversarial threats related to its...
Provided by MITRE
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Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
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How Do You Assess Your Organization's Cyber Threat Level?
Sep 2010
In the Cyber Prep methodology, an organization determines its target level of preparedness against cyber threats, including the advanced persistent threat, based on its assessment of the level of...
Provided by MITRE
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Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
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Selected MITRE Cyber-Related Research and Initiatives
Apr 2010
Over the past few years, the Advanced Cyber Threat (ACT) has driven them to evolve the authors' perspective of cyber security and information assurance. Advanced cyber adversaries have growing...
Provided by MITRE
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Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration
Jun 2010
Researchers are pursuing methods of securing the cyber aspect of the U.S. power grid, one of the country's most critical infrastructures. An attacker who is able to infiltrate an Energy Management...
Provided by Dartmouth College
