Pub Crawl #19
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.
Differential Privacy 2017 (all)
The theory of differential privacy is an active research area, and there are now differentially private algorithms for a wide range of problems. This research looks at big data and cyber physical systems, as well as theoretic approaches. For the Science of Security community, differential privacy relates to composability and scalability, resiliency, and human behavior.
A digital signature is one of the most common ways to authenticate. Using a mathematical scheme, the signature assures the reader that the message was created and sent by a known sender. But not all signature schemes are secure. The research challenge is to find new and better ways to protect, transfer, and utilize digital signatures. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to scalability and resilience.
Research into dynamical systems cited here focuses on non-linear and chaotic dynamical systems and in proving abstractions of dynamical systems through numerical simulations. Many of the applications studied are cyber-physical systems and are relevant to the Science of Security hard problems of resiliency, predictive metrics and composability.
Edge Detection and Security 2017 (all)
Edge detection is an important issue in image and signal processing. For the Science of Security community, the subject is relevant to issues in composability, scalability, predictive metrics, and resiliency.
Efficient Encryption 2017 (all)
The term “efficient encryption” generally refers to the speed of an algorithm, that is, the time needed to complete the calculations to encrypt or decrypt a coded text. The research cited here shows a broader concept and looks both at hardware and software, as well as power consumption. The research relates to cyber physical systems, resilience and composability.
E-government and Cybersecurity 2017 (all)
Electronic government is a growing area for the delivery of services to citizens. However, attacks on government data bases create large problems for a government and its citizens through lost or manipulated information and personal privacy violations. For the Science of Security community, its issues related to human behavior, policy-based governance of information technology systems, and resilience.
Fog Computing and Security 2017 (all)
Fog computing is a concept that extends the Cloud concept to the end user. As with most new technologies, a survey of the scope and types of security problems is necessary. Much of this research relates to the Internet of Things. For the Science of Security community, it is relevant to the hard problems of resilience and scalability.
Forward Error Correction and Security 2017 (all)
Controlling errors in data transmission in noisy or lossy circuits is a problem often solved by channel coding or forward error correction. Security resilience can be impacted by loss or noise. The articles cited here look are related to this Science of Security concern and are relevant to resiliency and scalability.
Fuzzy Logic and Security 2017 (all)
Fuzzy logic is being used to develop a number of security solutions for data security. The articles cited here include research into fuzzy logic-based security for software defined networks, industrial controls, intrusion response and recovery, wireless sensor networks, and more. They are relevant to cyber physical systems, resiliency, and metrics.
Game Theoretic Security 2017 (all)
Game theory has historically been the province of social sciences such as economics, political science, and psychology. Game theory has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science that includes both human and non-human actors like computers. It has been used extensively in wireless networks research to develop understanding of stable operation points for networks made of autonomous/selfish nodes. The nodes are considered as the players. Utility functions are often chosen to correspond to achieved connection rate or similar technical metrics. In security, the computer game framework is used to anticipate and analyze intruder and administrator concurrent interactions within the network. For the Science of Security community, it is relevant to human factors, predictive metrics, and scalability.
Internet-scale Computing Security 2017 (all)
Addressing security at Internet scale relates to all of the hard problems of the Science of Security.
Spam detection is a general problem in cybersecurity. For the Science of Security community, it is relevant to the problems of scalability, human behavior, and metrics.
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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.