Pub Crawl #73
Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers. Select the topic name to view the corresponding list of publications. Submissions and suggestions are welcome.
Channel coding, also known as Forward Error Correction, are methods for controlling errors in data transmissions over noisy or unreliable communications channels. For cybersecurity, these methods can also be used to ensure data integrity, as some of the research cited below shows. The work cited here relates to the Science of Security problems of metrics, resiliency, and composability.
Chaotic Cryptography 2022 (all)
Chaos-based cryptography systems are gaining interest as a way to provide robust protection, especially against statistical attacks. For the Science of Security community, this approach is related to the hard problems of scalability, resilience, metrics.
The “clean slate” approach looks at designing networks and internets from scratch, with security built in, in contrast to the evolved Internet in place. The research presented here covers a range of research topics and includes items of interest to the Science of Security, including human behavior, resilience, metrics, and policy governance.
Coding Theory and Security 2022 (all)
Coding theory examines the properties of codes and their aptness for a specific application. For the Science of Security, coding theory is relevant to compositionality, resilience, cryptography, and metrics.
Cognitive Radio Security 2022 (all)
Cognitive radio (CR) is a form of dynamic spectrum management--an intelligent radio that can be programmed and configured dynamically to use the best wireless channels near it. Its capability allows for great network resilience.
Command Injection Attacks 2022 (all)
Command or shell injection is one of the most critical vulnerabilities. To the Science of Security community, command injection attacks impact cyber physical systems and are related to composability, resiliency, and metrics.
Much of software security focuses on applications, but compiler security should also be an area of concern. Compilers can “correct” secure coding in the name of efficient processing. The works cited here look at various approaches and issues in compiler security. For the Science of Security community, this work relates to resilience, scalability and compositionality, and metrics.
Composability of security processes is one of the five hard problems for the Science of Security.
Compressive Sampling 2022 (all)
Compressive sampling (or compressive sensing) is an important theory in signal processing. It allows efficient acquisition and reconstruction of a signal and may also be the basis for user identification. For the Science of Security, the topic has implications for resilience, cyber-physical systems, privacy, and composability.
Computational Intelligence and Security 2022 (all)
Computational intelligence includes such constructs as artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation and fuzzy logic. It embraces biologically inspired algorithms such as swarm intelligence and artificial immune systems and includes broader fields such as image processing, data mining, and natural language processing. Its relevance to the Science of Security is related to composability and compositionality, as well as cryptography.
Computer Theory and Security 2022 (all)
The works cited here combine research into computing theory with research into the Science of Security hard problems.
In photonics, confinement is important to loss avoidance. In quantum theory, it relates to energy levels. Containment is important in the contexts of cyber-physical systems, privacy, resiliency, and composability.
Concurrency and Security 2022 (all)
Concurrency, that is, support for simultaneous access, is relevant to the Science of Security hard problems of resiliency, composability, and predictive metrics and to cyber physical systems in general.
Controller Area Network Security 2022 (all)
Controller area networks connect the main electrical units in automobiles. They are relevant to the Science of Security because of their relationship to cyber-physical systems, resiliency, and the Internet of Things.
Control Theory and Privacy 2022 (all)
Control theory offers a way to address the Science of Security hard problems of scalability, resilience, and human behavior, particularly as they relate to cyber physical systems. The research work presented here specifically addresses issues in privacy.
Control Theory and Resilience 2022 (all)
In the Science of Security, control theory offers methods and approaches to potentially solve hard problems in resiliency. The research work presented here broadly addresses issues in security, touching on the Science of Security hard problems of resiliency, scalability, and human factors.
Control Theory and Security 2022 (all)
In the Science of Security, control theory offers methods and approaches to potentially solve hard problems in security. The research work presented here broadly addresses issues in security, touching on the Science of Security hard problems of resiliency, scalability, and human factors.
Conversational Agents 2022 (all)
Conversational agents are being developed to allow for fully automated interactions between humans and computers using voice, gestures, and other attributes. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to the hard problems in human behavior, scalability, and metrics.
Coupled Congestion Control and Security 2022 (all)
Congestion control algorithms are used to quickly restore normal operation of a network when congestion occurs. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to resilience and scalability.
Covert Channels and Security 2022 (all)
A covert channel is a simple, effective mechanism for sending and receiving data between machines without alerting any firewalls or intrusion detectors on the network. In cybersecurity science, they have value both as a means for defense and attack. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to the hard problems of resilience, scalability and compositionality.
Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE) techniques provide fine grained access control to securely share organizational data where role-based access rights are in use. For the Science of Security community, CP-ABE is related to policy-based governance and scalability.
CPS Modeling and Simulation 2022 (all)
Modeling and simulation of Cyber-physical systems is a way to develop resiliency, composability, and predictive metrics in a laboratory environment and then test against their algorithms against real world situations. The challenge, of course, is to develop models and simulations that are accurate and reliable.
Science of Security 2021 (all)
Many more articles and research studies are appearing with “Science of Security” as a keyword. The articles cited here discuss the degree to which security is a science and various issues surrounding its development, ranging from basic approach to essential elements. The articles cited here address the fundamental concepts of the Science of Security.
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Pub Crawl contains bibliographical citations, abstracts if available, links on specific topics, and research problems of interest to the Science of Security community.
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- - Scalability and Composability: Develop methods to enable the construction of secure systems with known security properties from components with known security properties, without a requirement to fully re-analyze the constituent components.
- - Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration: Develop methods to express and enforce normative requirements and policies for handling data with differing usage needs and among users in different authority domains.
- - Security Metrics Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment: Develop security metrics and models capable of predicting whether or confirming that a given cyber system preserves a given set of security properties (deterministically or probabilistically), in a given context.
- - Resilient Architectures: Develop means to design and analyze system architectures that deliver required service in the face of compromised components.
- - Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior: Develop models of human behavior (of both users and adversaries) that enable the design, modeling, and analysis of systems with specified security properties.