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most citedJoint Cyber Risk Assessment of Network Systems with Heterogeneous Components

4 citations · 7 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

stat.AP2022

Statistical Modeling of Data Breach Risks: Time to Identification and Notification

Maochao Xu, Quynh Nhu Nguyen

It is very challenging to predict the cost of a cyber incident owing to the complex nature of cyber risk. However, it is inevitable for insurance companies who offer cyber insuranc…

stat.AP2021

Modeling Multivariate Cyber Risks: Deep Learning Dating Extreme Value Theory

Mingyue Zhang Wu, Jinzhu Luo, Xing Fang +2

Modeling cyber risks has been an important but challenging task in the domain of cyber security. It is mainly because of the high dimensionality and heavy tails of risk patterns. T…

econ.GN2020

Should the Ransomware be Paid?

Rui Fang, Maochao Xu, Peng Zhao

Ransomware has emerged as one of the most concerned cyber risks in recent years, which has caused millions of dollars monetary loss over the world. It typically demands a certain a…

cs.SI20203 cited

Pricing cyber insurance for a large-scale network

Lei Hua, Maochao Xu

Facing the lack of cyber insurance loss data, we propose an innovative approach for pricing cyber insurance for a large-scale network based on synthetic data. The synthetic data is…

cs.SI20204 cited

Joint Cyber Risk Assessment of Network Systems with Heterogeneous Components

Gaofeng Da, Maochao Xu, Jingshi Zhang +1

Cyber risks are the most common risks encountered by a modern network system. However, it is significantly difficult to assess the joint cyber risk owing to the network topology, r…

cs.CR2016

Cyber Epidemic Models with Dependences

Maochao Xu, Gaofeng Da, Shouhuai Xu

Studying models of cyber epidemics over arbitrary complex networks can deepen our understanding of cyber security from a whole-system perspective. In this paper, we initiate the in…