Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

From ChatGPT to ThreatGPT: Impact of Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy

Undoubtedly, the evolution of Generative AI (GenAI) models has been the highlight of digital transformation in the year 2022. As the different GenAI models like ChatGPT and Google Bard continue to foster their complexity and capability, it’...

Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks

Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input x and any target classification t, it is possible to find a new input x'...

Federated Machine Learning

Today’s artificial intelligence still faces two major challenges. One is that, in most industries, data exists in the form of isolated islands. The other is the strengthening of data privacy and security. We propose a possible solution to t...

Post-quantum cognitive zero trust architecture for healthcare IoT devices.

Healthcare IoT systems increasingly rely on interconnected, resource-constrained devices that are vulnerable to both classical and emerging quantum-enabled cyber threats, but introduced heightened cybersecurity risks, particularly from emer...

Coalition of explainable artificial intelligence and quantum computing in precision medicine

This survey examines the convergence of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Quantum Computing (QC) toward precision medicine. We review developments from 2018 to 2025, summarizing quantum algorithms, quantum-machine-learning model...

A Review of Cybersecurity Concerns for Transactive Energy Markets

Advances in energy generation and distribution technology have created the need for new power management paradigms. Transactive energy markets are integrated software and hardware systems that enable optimized energy management and direct t...

Data Mining Techniques for Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing Industries a Comprehensive Review

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is one of the major methods used in modern manufacturing to realize downtime minimization, lower the cost of maintenance and maximize machine service life by analyzing the collected data using data mining method...

Privacy Risks of Cybersquatting Attacks

Cybersquatting is a collection of methods commonly used by malicious actors to mislead or trick internet users into accessing fraudulent or malicious content. Much of the current research has concentrated on the specific techniques used by ...

The Significance of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques in Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Review

People in the modern era spend most of their lives in virtual environments that offer a range of public and private services and social platforms. Therefore, these environments need to be protected from cyber attackers that can steal data o...

Zero Trust VPN (ZT-VPN): A Systematic Literature Review and Cybersecurity Framework for Hybrid and Remote Work

Modern organizations have migrated from localized physical offices to work-from-home environments. This surge in remote work culture has exponentially increased the demand for and usage of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which permit remot...

Blockchain's roles in strengthening cybersecurity and protecting privacy

Cybersecurity

This chapter introduces the theme of cybersecurity, its importance in the actual scenario, and the challenges of the new Information Society, whose critical development factors are the technological revolution and innovation. The revolution...

Integrating Adversarial Scenarios into LLM Security Labs: An Experience Report on a Hands-On Approach

This paper presents an exploratory case study detailed as a pedagogical experience report on integrating adversarial Large Language Model (LLM) scenarios into a graduate cybersecurity curriculum. In addition to prompt injection, sophisticat...

Adversarial XAI Methods in Cybersecurity

Machine Learning methods are playing a vital role in combating ever-evolving threats in the cybersecurity domain. Explanation methods that shed light on the decision process of black-box classifiers are one of the biggest drivers in the suc...

Recent Advances on Federated Learning for Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity for Federated Learning for Internet of Things

Decentralized paradigm in the field of cybersecurity and machine learning (ML) for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) has gained a lot of attention from the government, academia, and industries in recent years. Federated cybersecurity (F...

Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Blockchain: A Review

In this paper, we identify and review key challenges to bridge the knowledge-gap between SME's, companies, organisations, businesses, government institutions and the general public in adopting, promoting and utilising Blockchain technology....

Automated monitoring innovations for efficient and safe construction practices

As construction projects increase in complexity, there are growing challenges with conventional monitoring methods in terms of efficiency, safety, and competitiveness. Traditional supervision techniques are labour-intensive, intermittent, a...

Decentralized intelligence in smart grids: a comprehensive survey of edge computing and federated learning

Modern power grids are becoming more distributed and data-intensive, while centralized, cloud-based analytics struggle to keep pace. Routing everything through a central system introduces delays, strains network capacity, complicates compli...

Hardware-Anchored ES-SPA: A Dynamic Zero-Trust Architecture for Secure eSIM Provisioning in 6G IoT via Moving Target Defense

The rapid evolution of 6G networks and large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments intensifies security and privacy challenges in embedded SIM (eSIM) Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP), particularly during the bootstrap and profile delivery...