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most citedMaking Secure Software Insecure without Changing Its Code: The Possibilities and Impacts of Attacks on the DevOps Pipeline

2 citations · 2 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CR2026

Semi-Automated Threat Modeling of Cloud-Based Systems Through Extracting Software Architecture from Configuration and Network Flow

Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Bharat Bhargava +1

Traditional threat modeling occurs during design, but cloud deployments introduce unanticipated threats, especially multi-stage attacks chaining vulnerabilities across trust bounda…

cs.CR2026

Extending Adaptive Cruise Control with Machine Learning Intrusion Detection Systems

Lotfi Ben Othmane, Yasaswini Konapalli, Naga Prudhvi Mareedu

An Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system automatically adjusts the host vehicle's speed to maintain a safe following distance from a lead vehicle. In typical implementations, a feed…

cs.CR2025

Reverse Engineering and Control-Aware Security Analysis of the ArduPilot UAV Framework

Yasaswini Konapalli, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Cihan Tunc +2

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies are gaining high interest for many domains, which makes UAV security of utmost importance. ArduPilot is among the most widely used open-s…

cs.CR2025

Toward Automated Security Risk Detection in Large Software Using Call Graph Analysis

Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Renee Bryce

Threat modeling plays a critical role in the identification and mitigation of security risks; however, manual approaches are often labor intensive and prone to error. This paper in…

cs.CR2025

Comparison of Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuit Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Inference

Kalyan Cheerla, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Kirill Morozov

Machine Learning (ML) is making its way into fields such as healthcare, finance, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and concerns over data privacy and model confidentiality con…

cs.CR2023

Improvement and Evaluation of Resilience of Adaptive Cruise Control Against Spoofing Attacks Using Intrusion Detection System

Mubark B. Jedh, Lotfi ben Othmane, Arun K. Somani

The Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system automatically adjusts the vehicle speed to maintain a safe distance between the vehicle and the lead (ahead) vehicle. The controller's deci…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Making Secure Software Insecure without Changing Its Code: The Possibilities and Impacts of Attacks on the DevOps Pipeline

Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi ben Othmane, Altaz Valani

Companies are misled into thinking they solve their security issues by using a DevSecOps system. This paper aims to answer the question: Could a DevOps pipeline be misused to trans…

cs.CR2022

Evaluation of the Architecture Alternatives for Real-time Intrusion Detection Systems for Connected Vehicles

Mubark B Jedh, Jian Kai Lee, Lotfi ben Othmane

Attackers demonstrated the use of remote access to the in-vehicle network of connected vehicles to launch cyber-attacks and remotely take control of these vehicles. Machine-learnin…

cs.CR2021

Threat Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems in Practice

Ameerah-Muhsinah Jamil, Lotfi ben Othmane, Altaz Valani

Traditional Cyber-physical Systems(CPSs) were not built with cybersecurity in mind. They operated on separate Operational Technology (OT) networks. As these systems now become more…