Cyber security in New Space

Security Monitoring of the Cyber Space

Billions of users utilize the largest and more complex network of information, namely, the Internet. Despite the fact that this IT critical infrastructure provides various communication services, adversaries are abusing the Internet security and privacy to execute cyber attacks for various reasons. To cope with these threats, security operators utilize various security tools and techniques to m...

Enabling New Technologies for Cyber Security Defense with the ICAS Cyber Security Ontology

Distribution Statement ”A” (Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited) Abstract—Incident response teams that are charged with breach discovery and containment face several challenges, the most important of which is access to pertinent data. Our TAPIO (Targeted Attack Premonition using Integrated Operational data) tool is designed to solve this problem by automatically extracting data ...

Cyber Security Threats to Safety-critical, Space-based Infrastructures

Space-based systems play an important role within national critical infrastructures. They are being integrated into advanced air-traffic management applications, rail signalling systems, energy distribution software etc. Unfortunately, the end users of communications, location sensing and timing applications often fail to understand that these infrastructures are vulnerable to a wide range of s...

Cyber Security Countermeasures to Combat Cyber Terrorism

Uncertainty in Cyber Security Investments

When undertaking cyber security risk assessments, we must assign numeric values to metrics to compute the final expected loss that represents the risk that an organization is exposed to due to cyber threats. Even if risk assessment is motivated from real-world observations and data, there is always a high chance of assigning inaccurate values due to different uncertainties involved (e.g., evolv...