Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cybersecurity and platform competition in the cloud

Cloud computing services are examples of platforms in the classic sense of the economics of two-sided markets. In particular, indirect externalities arise in the cloud from connecting users with developers of complementary products or servi...

Review of Generative AI methods in cybersecurity

Over the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly popular, especially with the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and DALL-E. With this rise, large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) hav...

Cybersecurity

Aggressors and organized crimes have launched serious cybersecurity attacks, and ill-prepared public and private organizations have suffered dearly. People are the most vulnerable element in cybersecurity, and thus continuous efforts should...

Emergent behavior in cybersecurity

We argue that emergent behavior is inherent to cybersecurity....

Semi-State Actors in Cybersecurity

Abstract What does the global telecommunications company Huawei, a hacking-for-hire outfit in India, and Russian cyber criminals have in common? They all share a special relationship to the state, which significantly shapes the politics of ...

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

Cybersecurity Fundamentals: A Real-World Perspective explains detailed concepts within computer networks and computer security in an easy-to-understand way, making it the perfect introduction to the topic. This book covers fundamental issue...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity professionals should stay current on developments with whistleblowing systems. Countries have rapidly moved to enact laws aimed at protecting critical infrastructure. They have also been moving to protect personal privacy. The...

Cyberspace and Cybersecurity

Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to discuss two basic concepts—cyberspace and cybersecurity. The author describes the genesis of both and attempts to define them. In the introduction, the author briefly addresses the issue of the pro...

Cybersecurity vs. Information Security

Protection of data assets is a hot trend topic that is attracting considerable interest worldwide. There are different concepts revolving security of data including cybersecurity and information security. Cybersecurity and information secur...

Cybersecurity in Hospitals: A Systematic, Organizational Perspective

BACKGROUND: Cybersecurity incidents are a growing threat to the health care industry in general and hospitals in particular. The health care industry has lagged behind other industries in protecting its main stakeholder (ie, patients), and ...

Recommender Systems in Cybersecurity

Abstract With the growth of CyberTerrorism, enterprises worldwide have been struggling to stop intruders from obtaining private data. Despite the efforts made by Cybersecurity experts, the shortage of skillful security teams and the usage o...

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework

This publication has been developed by NIST in accordance with its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014, 44 U.S.C. § 3551 et seq., Public Law (P.L.) 113-283.NIST is responsible ...

Cybersecurity: Risk management framework and investment cost analysis

Cybersecurity dynamics

We explore the emerging field of Cybersecurity Dynamics, a candidate foundation for the Science of Cybersecurity....

Cybersecurity: A Pre-history

The ‘cyber’ issue is not new, but rather has taken a half-century to develop. Indeed, it was already decades old before the general public and many senior leaders recognized its salience in the mid-1990s. It developed, moreover, along a log...

A systemic framework for addressing cybersecurity in construction

Today, the built environment is designed, built, and managed using digital technology, making it increasingly exposed to cyber security risks. Cybersecurity is a general topic, and the construction sector has been borrowing general solution...

Leveraging human factors in cybersecurity: an integrated methodological approach

Computer and Information Security (CIS) is usually approached adopting a technology-centric viewpoint, where the human components of sociotechnical systems are generally considered as their weakest part, with little consideration for the en...

The Cybersecurity Dilemma

Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward ...

Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy

Blockchain technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or t...

Cybersecurity and cybersecurity culture

This chapter will explore the complex world of cybersecurity and its surrounding culture. It sets out to highlight the distinctions between the two and underscore their unique characteristics. It is crucial that these differences are clarif...