Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cybersecurity

How do effective directors secure the organisation against cyber risks? Based on a framework of global corporate governance best practice, which can be used in all organisations anywhere in the world, this chapter of Questions To Ask (QTA) ...

Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures: Attack and Defense Modeling

Disruption of electric power operations can be catastrophic on national security and the economy. Due to the complexity of widely dispersed assets and the interdependences among computer, communication, and power infrastructures, the requir...

Cybersecurity Awareness Framework for Academia

Cybersecurity is a multifaceted global phenomenon representing complex socio-technical challenges for governments and private sectors. With technology constantly evolving, the types and numbers of cyberattacks affect different users in diff...

Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity

The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the very notion of peac...

A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics

Towards an Improved Understanding of Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity cannot be addressed by technology alone; the most intractable aspects are in fact sociotechnical. As a result, the 'human factor' has been recognised as being the weakest and most obscure link in creating safe and secure digit...

Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a widely used term with highly diverse, frequently subjective, and occasionally uninformative definitions. Disrupting force processes in national security and the economy can be disastrous. The challenge of meeting safety a...

Public-Private Cybersecurity

Calls for public-private partnerships to address U.S. cybersecurity failures have become ubiquitous. But the academic literature and public debate have not fully appreciated the extent to which the United States has already backed into a de...

Toward a Sustainable Cybersecurity Ecosystem

Cybersecurity issues constitute a key concern of today’s technology-based economies. Cybersecurity has become a core need for providing a sustainable and safe society to online users in cyberspace. Considering the rapid increase of technolo...

Cybersecurity, safety and robots: Strengthening the link between cybersecurity and safety in the context of care robots

This paper addresses the interplay between robots, cybersecurity, and safety from a European legal perspective, a topic under-explored by current technical and legal literature. The legal framework, together with technical standards, is a n...

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework

With the increase in cybercrimes over the last few years, a growing realization for the need for cybersecurity has begun to be recognized by the nation. Unfortunately, being aware that cybersecurity is something you need to worry about and ...

Organizational science and cybersecurity: abundant opportunities for research at the interface

Cybersecurity is an ever-present problem for organizations, but organizational science has barely begun to enter the arena of cybersecurity research. As a result, the "human factor" in cybersecurity research is much less studied than its te...

Cybersecurity

This chapter considers the concept of cybersecurity, different approaches to defining this concept, contents included in different definitions, its referent objects as well as actors in this domain. It is based upon the central research que...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity has evolved over the years to become a critical component for businesses and individuals alike. As malicious actors have grown in numbers and continued to change their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), the cybersecur...

Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)

This publication from the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) describes the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), a fundamental reference for describing and sharing information about cybersecurity work. ...

Vulnerability Assessment of Cybersecurity for SCADA Systems

Vulnerability assessment is a requirement of NERC's cybersecurity standards for electric power systems. The purpose is to study the impact of a cyber attack on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Compliance of the requ...

Cybersecurity

"This book is the first of its kind to introduce the integration of ethics, laws, risks, and policies in cyberspace. The book will advance understanding of the ethical and legal aspects of cyberspace followed by the risks involved along wit...

Generative AI in cybersecurity: A comprehensive review of LLM applications and vulnerabilities

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the future of cybersecurity through Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We explore LLM applications across various domains, including hardware design security, intrusion detection, s...

Cybersecurity as praxis and as a state: The EU law path towards acknowledgement of a new right to cybersecurity?

The end of the second decade of the 21st century has been the best of times for EU's cybersecurity law and policy: Its NIS Directive has been transposed into all Member States’ national law, creating a new administrative structure at EU and...

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 ...