Pub Crawl #50
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.
Compositionality of security processes is one of the five hard problems for the Science of Security.
Computational Intelligence 2020 (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.
Computing Theory and Trust 2020 (all)
The works cited here combine research into computing theory with research into trust between humans and humans, between humans and computers, and between computers. For the Science of Security community, this work relates to the hard problems of human factors, resiliency, and composability.
Concurrency and Security 2020 (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 cyberphysical systems in general.
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.
Control Theory and Privacy 2020 (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 Resiliency 2020 (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 work cited here focuses on resiliency.
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 2020 (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.
The research work cited here looks at the Science of Security hard problem of human factors and privacy in the context of cyber physical systems.
The research work cited here looks at the Science of Security hard problem of Resiliency in the context of cyber physical systems.
Cross Layer Security 2020 (all)
Protocol architectures traditionally followed strict layering principles to ensure interoperability, rapid deployment, and efficient implementation. But a lack of coordination between layers limits the performance of these architectures. More important, the lack of coordination may introduce security vulnerabilities and potential threat vectors. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to the problems of resiliency and composability.
Cryptology, the use of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversaries, is one of the primary subjects of the Science of Security and impacts study into all of the hard problems.
Cybersecurity Education 2020 (all)
As a discipline in higher education, cybersecurity is less than two decades old. But because of the large number of qualified professionals needed, many universities offer cybersecurity education in a variety of delivery formats—live, online, and hybrid. To date, much of the curriculum has been driven by NSTISSI standards written in the early 1990s. The articles cited here look at aspects of curriculum, methods, evaluation, and support technologies. For the Science of Security community, these items are relevant to the areas of hard problems, privacy and cyber-physical systems.
Science of Security 2019 (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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How recent are these publications?
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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.