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most citedResearch Communities in cyber security: A Comprehensive Literature Review

36 citations · 40 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2026

The MAL Simulator: Cyber Operations Simulation based on Attack & Defense Graphs

Jakob Nyberg, Sandor Berglund, Andrei Buhaiu +3

We have developed the MAL Simulator, a cyber operation simulator based on the Meta Attack Language (MAL). The MAL Simulator is intended for decision-driven cyber attack and defense…

cs.CR2026

A Cyber Range Evaluation of Autonomous Network Incident Response Agents

Jakob Nyberg, Teodor Sommestad, Andrei Buhaiu +3

We test the performance of agents for automated network intrusion response in a cyber range intended for human operator training. The range implements an emulated networking enviro…

cs.CR2023

Towards a Graph Neural Network-Based Approach for Estimating Hidden States in Cyber Attack Simulations

Pontus Johnson, Mathias Ekstedt

This work-in-progress paper introduces a prototype for a novel Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach to estimate hidden states in cyber attack simulations. Utilizing the Meta A…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Training Automated Defense Strategies Using Graph-based Cyber Attack Simulations

Jakob Nyberg, Pontus Johnson

We implemented and evaluated an automated cyber defense agent. The agent takes security alerts as input and uses reinforcement learning to learn a policy for executing predefined d…

cs.CR2021★ 36 cited

Research Communities in cyber security: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Sotirios Katsikeas, Pontus Johnson, Mathias Ekstedt +1

In order to provide a coherent overview of cyber security research, the Scopus academic abstract and citation database was mined to create a citation graph of 98,373 authors active…

cs.SE2018★ 1 cited

Consensus in Software Engineering: A Cognitive Mapping Study

Pontus Johnson, Paul Ralph, Mathias Ekstedt +2

Background: Philosophers of science including Collins, Feyerabend, Kuhn and Latour have all emphasized the importance of consensus within scientific communities of practice. Consen…