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Digital Twins and the Future of their Use Enabling Shift Left and Shift Right Cybersecurity Operations
Ahmad Mohsin, Helge Janicke, Surya Nepal +1
Digital Twins (DTs), optimize operations and monitor performance in Smart Critical Systems (SCS) domains like smart grids and manufacturing. DT-based cybersecurity solutions are in…
Data-Driven Intelligence can Revolutionize Today's Cybersecurity World: A Position Paper
Iqbal H. Sarker, Helge Janicke, Leandros Maglaras +1
As cyber threats evolve and grow progressively more sophisticated, cyber security is becoming a more significant concern in today's digital era. Traditional security measures tend…
Security-Enhancing Digital Twins: Characteristics, Indicators, and Future Perspectives
Matthias Eckhart, Andreas Ekelhart, David Allison +6
The term "digital twin" (DT) has become a key theme of the cyber-physical systems (CPSs) area, while remaining vaguely defined as a virtual replica of an entity. This article ident…
Pedagogic Challenges in Teaching Cyber Security -- a UK Perspective
Lallie Harjinder, Sinclair Jane, Joy Mike +3
Cyber security has become an issue of national concern in the UK, USA and many other countries worldwide. Universities have reacted to this by launching numerous cyber security deg…
SmartValidator: A Framework for Automatic Identification and Classification of Cyber Threat Data
Chadni Islam, M. Ali Babar, Roland Croft +1
A wide variety of Cyber Threat Information (CTI) is used by Security Operation Centres (SOCs) to perform validation of security incidents and alerts. Security experts manually defi…
Cybersecurity Revisited: Honeytokens meet Google Authenticator
Vasilis Papaspirou, Maria Papathanasaki, Leandros Maglaras +4
Although sufficient authentication mechanisms were enhanced by the use of two or more factors that resulted in new multi factor authentication schemes, more sophisticated and targe…
A Deep Learning-based Penetration Testing Framework for Vulnerability Identification in Internet of Things Environments
Nickolaos Koroniotis, Nour Moustafa, Benjamin Turnbull +3
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has displayed tremendous growth in recent years, resulting in innovations like Industry 4.0 and smart environments that provide improvements t…
Security and Privacy for Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges
Ayodeji Oseni, Nour Moustafa, Helge Janicke +3
The increased adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents an opportunity to solve many socio-economic and environmental challenges; however, this cannot happen without securi…
Federated TON_IoT Windows Datasets for Evaluating AI-based Security Applications
Nour Moustafa, Marwa Keshk, Essam Debie +1
Existing cyber security solutions have been basically developed using knowledge-based models that often cannot trigger new cyber-attack families. With the boom of Artificial Intell…
From Cyber Terrorism to Cyber Peacekeeping: Are we there yet?
Maria Papathanasaki, Georgios Dimitriou, Leandros Maglaras +2
In Cyberspace nowadays, there is a burst of information that everyone has access. However, apart from the advantages the Internet offers, it also hides numerous dangers for both pe…
A Survey of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
Nadeem Ahmed, Regio A. Michelin, Wanli Xue +7
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has taken the world by surprise, forcing lockdowns and straining public health care systems. COVID-19 is known to be a highly infectious virus, and…
A NIS Directive compliant Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Framework
George Drivas, Argyro Chatzopoulou, Leandros Maglaras +3
The NIS Directive introduces obligations for the security of the network and information systems of operators of essential services and of digital service providers and require fro…
Threats, Protection and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures
Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Abdelouahid Derhab +3
As Critical National Infrastructures are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks, their protection becomes a significant issue for any organization as well as a nation. Moreover,…
Developing Cyber Buffer Zones
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
The United Nations conducts peace operations around the world, aiming tomaintain peace and security in conflict torn areas. Whilst early operations werelargely successful, the chan…
A Novel Hierarchical Intrusion Detection System based on Decision Tree and Rules-based Models
Ahmed Ahmim, Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +2
This paper proposes a novel intrusion detection system (IDS) that combines different classifier approaches which are based on decision tree and rules-based concepts, namely, REP Tr…
Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Makhlouf Derdour, Mithun Mukherjee +3
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing th…
Developing Cyber Peacekeeping: Observation, Monitoring and Reporting
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
Cyber peacekeeping is an emerging and multi-disciplinary field of research, touching upon technical, political and societal domains of thought. In this article we build upon previo…
Authentication schemes for Smart Mobile Devices: Threat Models, Countermeasures, and Open Research Issues
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros Maglaras, Abdelouahid Derhab +1
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of authentication schemes for smart mobile devices. We start by providing an overview of existing survey articles published in the…
Internet of Cloud: Security and Privacy issues
Allan Cook, Michael Robinson, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +4
The synergy between the cloud and the IoT has emerged largely due to the cloud having attributes which directly benefit the IoT and enable its continued growth. IoT adopting Cloud…
Route Optimization of Electric Vehicles based on Dynamic Wireless Charging
Dimitrios Kosmanos, Leandros Maglaras, Michalis Mavrovouniotis +4
One of the barriers to adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is the anxiety around the limited driving range. Recent proposals have explored charging EVs on the move, using dynamic w…
An Introduction to Cyber Peacekeeping
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
Peacekeeping is a noble and essential activity, helping to bring peace to conflict torn areas and providing security to millions of people around the world. Peacekeepers operate in…
Security for 4G and 5G Cellular Networks: A Survey of Existing Authentication and Privacy-preserving Schemes
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros Maglaras, Antonios Argyriou +2
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of existing authentication and privacy-preserving schemes for 4G and 5G cellular networks. We start by providing an overview of existing…
Authentication Protocols for Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros A. Maglaras, Helge Janicke +1
In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of authentication protocols for Internet of Things (IoT). Specifically, we select and in-detail examine more than forty authenticat…
A Survey on Privacy-preserving Schemes for Smart Grid Communications
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros A. Maglaras, Helge Janicke +1
In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of privacy-preserving schemes for Smart Grid communications. Specifically, we select and in-detail examine thirty privacy preservin…