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7 papers

cs.CR2026

Threat Modelling using Domain-Adapted Language Models: Empirical Evaluation and Insights

Saba Pourhanifeh, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Ashraf Matrawy

Large Language Models(LLMs) are increasingly explored for cybersecurity applications such as vulnerability detection. In the domain of threat modelling, prior work has primarily ev…

cs.CR2026

Privacy Preservation Techniques (PPTs) in IoT Systems: A Scoping Review and Future Directions

Emmanuel Alalade, Ashraf Matrawy

Privacy preservation in Internet of Things (IoT) systems requires the use of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) built from innovative technologies such as cryptography and artif…

cs.LG2025

SA-ADP: Sensitivity-Aware Adaptive Differential Privacy for Large Language Models

Stella Etuk, Ashraf Matrawy

Despite advances in the use of large language models (LLMs) in downstream tasks, their ability to memorize information has raised privacy concerns. Therefore, protecting personally…

cs.CR2025

PTMF: A Privacy Threat Modeling Framework for IoT with Expert-Driven Threat Propagation Analysis

Emmanuel Dare Alalade, Ashraf Matrawy

Previous studies on PTA have focused on analyzing privacy threats based on the potential areas of occurrence and their likelihood of occurrence. However, an in-depth understanding…

cs.CR2025

Privacy Engineering in Smart Home (SH) Systems: A Comprehensive Privacy Threat Analysis and Risk Management Approach

Emmanuel Dare Alalade, Mohammed Mahyoub, Ashraf Matrawy

Addressing trust concerns in Smart Home (SH) systems is imperative due to the limited study on preservation approaches that focus on analyzing and evaluating privacy threats for ef…

cs.CR2025

LLMs' Suitability for Network Security: A Case Study of STRIDE Threat Modeling

AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Ashraf Matrawy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to be an integral part of next-generation AI-native 6G networks. With the prevalence of AI, researchers have identified numerous use cases…