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Publications (15)

cs.CR2021

Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: On References in Networks of Decoy Elements

Daniel Reti, Daniel Fraunholz, Janis Zemitis +2

Deception technology has proven to be a sound approach against threats to information systems. Aside from well-established honeypots, decoy elements, also known as honeytokens, are…

cs.LG2026

Robust Semi-Supervised Temporal Intrusion Detection for Adversarial Cloud Networks

Anasuya Chattopadhyay, Daniel Reti, Hans D. Schotten

Cloud networks increasingly rely on machine learning based Network Intrusion Detection Systems to defend against evolving cyber threats. However, real-world deployments are challen…

cs.SI2024

GNN-based Anomaly Detection for Encoded Network Traffic

Anasuya Chattopadhyay, Daniel Reti, Hans D. Schotten

The early research report explores the possibility of using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for anomaly detection in internet traffic data enriched with information. While recent stud…

cs.CR2021

Secure (S)Hell: Introducing an SSH Deception Proxy Framework

Daniel Reti, David Klaaßen, Simon Duque Anton +1

Deceiving an attacker in the network security domain is a well established approach, mainly achieved through deployment of honeypots consisting of open network ports with the sole…

cs.CR2021

Escape the Fake: Introducing Simulated Container-Escapes for Honeypots

Daniel Reti, Norman Becker

In the field of network security, the concept of honeypots is well established in research as well as in production. Honeypots are used to imitate a legitimate target on the networ…

cs.CR2018

Demystifying Deception Technology:A Survey

Daniel Fraunholz, Simon Duque Anton, Christoph Lipps +5

Deception boosts security for systems and components by denial, deceit, misinformation, camouflage and obfuscation. In this work an extensive overview of the deception technology e…

cs.CR2021

The Global State of Security in Industrial Control Systems: An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities around the World

Simon Daniel Duque Anton, Daniel Fraunholz, Daniel Krohmer +3

Operational Technology (OT)-networks and -devices, i.e. all components used in industrial environments, were not designed with security in mind. Efficiency and ease of use were the…

cs.CY2026

Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment of Safety and Security Practices at Leading AI Companies

Miles Brundage, Noemi Dreksler, Aidan Homewood +45

We outline a vision for frontier AI auditing, which we define as rigorous third-party verification of frontier AI developers' safety and security claims, and evaluation of their sy…

cs.CR2024

Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Penetration Testing using A3C, Q-learning and DQN

Norman Becker, Daniel Reti, Evridiki V. Ntagiou +2

Penetration testing is the process of searching for security weaknesses by simulating an attack. It is usually performed by experienced professionals, where scanning and attack too…

cs.CR2023

SCANTRAP: Protecting Content Management Systems from Vulnerability Scanners with Cyber Deception and Obfuscation

Daniel Reti, Karina Elzer, Hans Dieter Schotten

Every attack begins with gathering information about the target. The entry point for network breaches are often vulnerabilities in internet facing websites, which often rely on an…

cs.SE2020

Creating it from SCRATCh: A Practical Approach for Enhancing the Security of IoT-Systems in a DevOps-enabled Software Development Environment

Simon D Duque Anton, Daniel Fraunholz, Daniel Krohmer +9

DevOps describes a method to reorganize the way different disciplines in software engineering work together to speed up software delivery. However, the introduction of DevOps-metho…

cs.NI2020

Application of Virtualization Technologies in Novel Industrial Automation: Catalyst or Show-Stopper?

Michael Gundall, Daniel Reti, Hans D. Schotten

Industry 4.0 describes an adaptive and changeable production, where its factory cells have to be reconfigured at very short intervals, e.g. after each workpiece. Furthermore, this…

cs.CR2023

Evaluating Deception and Moving Target Defense with Network Attack Simulation

Daniel Reti, Karina Elzer, Daniel Fraunholz +2

In the field of network security, with the ongoing arms race between attackers, seeking new vulnerabilities to bypass defense mechanisms and defenders reinforcing their prevention,…

cs.CR2024

Act as a Honeytoken Generator! An Investigation into Honeytoken Generation with Large Language Models

Daniel Reti, Norman Becker, Tillmann Angeli +4

With the increasing prevalence of security incidents, the adoption of deception-based defense strategies has become pivotal in cyber security. This work addresses the challenge of…

math-ph2024

Robustness of Excitations in the Random Dimer Model

Daniel Reti

The ground state solution of the random dimer model is at a critical point after, which has been shown with random link excitations. In this paper we test the robustness of the ran…