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most citedA Survey of Large Language Models in Cybersecurity

5 citations · 11 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2025

Challenges in GenAI and Authentication: a scoping review

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Lais Machado Bezerra, Carlos Becker Westphall

Authentication and authenticity have been a security challenge since the beginning of information sharing, especially in the context of digital information. With the advancement of…

cs.NI2025

Qualitative Assessment of Low Power Wide Area Network Protocols and their Security Aspect

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Lais Machado Bezerra, Carlos Becker Westphall

There are currently many communication options in the Internet of Things, even in particular areas such as constrained and battery-powered devices, such as Low Power Wide Area Netw…

cs.CR2025

A tertiary review on quantum cryptography

Luiz Filipi Anderson de Sousa Moura, Carlos Becker Westphall

Quantum computers impose an immense threat to system security. As a countermeasure, new cryptographic classes have been created to prevent these attacks. Technologies such as post-…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

A Survey of Large Language Models in Cybersecurity

Gabriel de Jesus Coelho da Silva, Carlos Becker Westphall

Large Language Models (LLMs) have quickly risen to prominence due to their ability to perform at or close to the state-of-the-art in a variety of fields while handling natural lang…

cs.DC2022

Distributed Load Orchestration for Vision Computing in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Ricardo N. Boing, Hugo Vaz Sampaio, Fernando Koch +2

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a type of network architecture that provides cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the network. We consider the use case of video surveil…

cs.CR2022

A Comparative Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Performance of Security Options for Message Protocols: Fog Computing Scenario

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Fernando Koch, Carlos Becker Westphall

We analyze the utilization of publish-subscribe protocols in IoT and Fog Computing and challenges around security configuration, performance, and qualitative characteristics. Such…

cs.CR2022

Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges in Using Restricted Device Authentication in Fog Computing

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Carlos Becker Westphal

The few resources available on devices restricted in Internet of Things are an important issue when we think about security. In this perspective, our work proposes a agile systemat…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

A Bibliometrics Analysis on 28 years of Authentication and Threat Model Area

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Cristiano Antônio de Souza, Carla Merkle Westphall +1

The large volume of publications in any research area can make it difficult for researchers to track their research areas' trends, challenges, and characteristics. Bibliometrics so…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Characteristics and Main Threats about Multi-Factor Authentication: A Survey

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Cristiano Antônio de Souza, Carla Merkle Westphall +1

This work reports that the Systematic Literature Review process is responsible for providing theoretical support to research in the Threat Model and Multi-Factor Authentication. Ho…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Models of Computing as a Service and IoT: an analysis of the current scenario with applications using LPWAN

Wesley dos Reis Bezerra, Fernando Luiz Koch, Carlos Becker Westphall

This work provides the basis to understand and select Cloud Computing models applied for the development of IoT solutions using Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN). Cloud Computing…

cs.DC2021★ 3 cited

Autonomic Management of Power Consumption with IoT and Fog Computing

Hugo Vaz Sampaio, Fernando Koch, Carlos Becker Westphall +2

We introduce a system for Autonomic Management of Power Consumption in setups that involve Internet of Things (IoT) and Fog Computing. The Central IoT (CIoT) is a Fog Computing bas…

cs.DC2018

Autonomic Intrusion Response in Distributed Computing using Big Data

Kleber Vieira, Fernando Koch, Joao Bosco Mangueira Sobral +2

We introduce a method for Intrusion Detection based on the classification, understanding and prediction of behavioural deviance and potential threats, issuing recommendations, and…