Pub Crawl #27
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.
Information Theoretic Security 2018 (all)
A cryptosystem is said to be information-theoretically secure if its security derives purely from information theory and cannot be broken even when the adversary has unlimited computing power. For example, the one-time pad is an information-theoretically secure cryptosystem proven by Claude Shannon, inventor of information theory, to be secure. Information-theoretically secure cryptosystems are often used for the most sensitive communications such as diplomatic cables and high-level military communications, because of the great efforts enemy governments expend toward breaking them. Because of this importance, methods, theory and practice in information theory security also remains high. It is fundamentally related to the concept of Science of Security and all the hard problems.
Machine Learning and Security 2018 (all)
Machine learning offers potential efficiencies and is an important tool in data mining. However, the "learned" or derived data must maintain integrity. Machine learning can also be used to identify threats and attacks. Research in this field relates to the Science of Security hard problems of resilient architectures, composability, and privacy.
Malware analysis, along with detection and classification, is a major issue cybersecurity. For the Science of Security community, malware classification is related to privacy, predictive metrics, human behavior and resiliency.
Malware Analysis and Graph Theory 2018 (all)
Malware analysis is generally signature based. Graph theory has the potential to provide more rigor in analyzing malware as a tool for mining large data sets. For the Science of Security community, malware classification is related to privacy, predictive metrics, human behavior and resiliency.
Malware Classification 2018 (all)
Malware classification, along with detection and analysis, is a major issue cybersecurity. For the Science of Security community, malware classification is related to privacy, predictive metrics, human behavior and resiliency.
MANET Attack Detection 2018 (all)
Security is an important research issue for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The work cited here looks at attack detection. For the Science of Security community, this work relates to the hard problems of resilience, metrics, and compositionality.
MANET Attack Mitigation 2018 (all)
Security is an important research issue for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The work cited here looks at attack mitigation. For the Science of Security community, this work relates to the hard problems of resilience, metrics, and compositionality.
MANET Attack Prevention 2018 (all)
Security is an important research issue for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The work cited here looks at attack prevention. For the Science of Security community, this work relates to the hard problems of resilience, metrics, and compositionality.
Policy-based access controls and security policies are intertwined in most commercial systems. Analytics use abstraction and reduction to improve policy-based security. For the Science of Security community, policy-based governance is one of the five Hard Problems.
Security Risk Management 2018 (all)
Managing security risk in cyberphysical systems is a complex process. The work cited here approaches the problem relative to the Science of Security hard problems of human factors, scalability, resilience, and metrics.
Security Scalability 2018 (all)
Scalability, along with compositionality, is one of the five hard problems for the Science of Security community.
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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.