Pub Crawl #76
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.
If malware creates a trust situation which is not real, that is, false, a series of security issues are created. For the Science of Security community, this situation is relevant to policy-based governance, scalability, and resilience.
Forward Error Correction 2022 (all)
Forward Error Correction, also known as Channel coding, 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.
Fuzzy cryptology uses fuzzy set theory to be used as a tool in securing cryptosystems. For the Science of Security community, this topic is relevant to the hard problems of scalability, resilience, and metrics.
Fuzzy Logic and Security 2022 (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 2022 (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.
Generative Adversarial Learning 2022 (all)
AI and Machine Learning are being used to develop a wide range of applications including visual, audio, and text. The use of these methods has large security implications. Research into the security aspects is relevant to the Science of Security hard problems of resilience, predictive metrics, and scalability.
Hashing algorithms are used extensively in information security and forensics. Research focuses on new methods and techniques to optimize security. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to compositionality and resilience.
Homomorphic Encryption 2022 (all)
Homomorphic encryption shows promise but continues to demand a heavy processing load in practice. Research into homomorphism is focused on creating greater efficiencies, as well as elaborating on the underlying theory. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to resiliency, scalability, human factors, and metrics.
ICS Anomaly Detection 2022 (all)
Industrial control systems are a vital part of the critical infrastructure. Anomaly detection in these systems is requirement to successfully build resilient and scalable systems. The work cited here addresses these two hard problems in the Science of Security.
Identity Management 2022 (all)
The term identity management refers to the management of individual identities, their roles, authentication, authorizations and privileges within or across systems. For the Science of Security community, this research is relevant to scalability, resilience, and human behavior.
Intrusion detection systems defend communications, computer and other information systems against malicious attacks by identifying attacks and attackers. The topic relates to the Science of Security issues of resilience and composability.
Immersion systems, commonly known as “virtual reality”, are used for a variety of functions such as gaming, rehabilitation, and training. These systems mix the virtual with the actual, and have implications for cybersecurity because attackers may make the jump from virtual to actual systems. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to resilience, human factors, cyber physical systems, privacy, and composability.
Industrial Control Systems 2022 (all)
Industrial control systems are a vital part of the critical infrastructure. Anomaly detection in these systems is requirement to successfully build resilient and scalable systems. The work cited here addresses these two hard problems in the Science of Security.
Information Assurance 2022 (all)
The term “information Assurance” was adopted in the late 1990’s to cover what is often now referred to generically as “cybersecurity.” Many still use the phrase, particularly in the U.S. government, both for teaching and research. Since it is a rather generic phrase, there is a wide area of coverage under this topic. As such, it touches all of the hard problems in the Science of Security.
Information Centric Networks 2022 (all)
The move from host-centric to information-centric network security has major implications for the Science of Security community relative to scalability and resilience.
I-O Systems Security 2022 (all)
Management of I/O devices is a critical part of the operating system. Entire I/O subsystems are devoted to its operation. These subsystems contend both with the movement towards standard interfaces for a wide range of devices to makes it easier to add newly developed devices to existing systems, and the development of entirely new types of devices for which existing standard interfaces can be difficult to apply. Typically, when accessing files, a security check is performed when the file is created or opened. The security check is typically not done again unless the file is closed and reopened. If an opened file is passed to an untrusted caller, the security system can, but is not required to prevent the caller from accessing the file. The research is relevant to the Science of Security problem of scalability.
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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- - 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.