Cyber Security Defence Policies: A Proposed Guidelines for Organisations Cyber Security Practices

Smart defence: an architecture for new challenges to cyber security

The last years have seen an unprecedented amount of attacks. Intrusions on IT-Systems are rising constantly both from a quantitative as well as a qualitative point of view. Recent examples like the hack of the Sony Playstation Network or the compromise of RSA are just some examples of high-quality attack vectors. Since these Smart Attacks are specifically designed to permeate state of the art t...

Standards for Cyber Security

Standards play a key role in improving cyber defense and cyber security across different geographical regions and communities. Standardizing processes and procedures is also essential to achieve effective cooperation in cross-border and cross-community environments. The number of standards development organizations and the number of published information security standards have increased in rec...

The "triptych of cyber security": A classifi cation of active cyber defence

In the fi eld of cyber security, ill-defi ned concepts and inconsistently applied terminology are further complicating an already complex issue1. This causes diffi culties for policy-makers, strategists and academics. Using national cyber security strategies to support current literature, this paper undertakes three tasks with the goal of classifying and defi ning terms to begin the development...

Cyber Security for Cyber Physcial Systems: a Trust-based Approach

CyberPhysical Systems (CPS) consist of a combination of different embedded subsystems, which work independently of each other and also interact with the external environment. Such embedded systems operate in the presence of inherent uncertainty, context dependencies and adversarial certainty arising from both the cyber and physical worlds. Security is one of the key concepts to shield the CPS e...

Cyber Security Countermeasures to Combat Cyber Terrorism