scholarly journals A lightweight cryptographic solution to secure digital transmissions on resource-constrained environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Saiida Lazaar
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Constrained Systems ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Constrained Environments ◽  
Secure Networks ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
To Come ◽  
Main Components

The great revolution of technology and its fast growth have led to a cyber space increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. For this reason, cyber security becomes paramount to protect our cyber space by presenting and implementing important solutions to protect sensitive data from malicious persons. Thereby various measures of protection have been developed and aim to minimize the risks and damages of attacks. Among them, cryptography plays a vital and crucial role in protecting sensitive transmissions and electronic exchanges through complex networks. Numerous scientific studies have emerged with the advent of the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT); all of them have expressed a strong need for building secure, efficient and fast cryptosystems targeting confidentiality, integrity and authentication. The last two objectives are essentially built on hash functions which are the main components of many applications and secure networks. The purpose of this paper is to give recent advances of lightweight cryptographic solutions that meet the requirements of constrained systems, and to present a study, in terms of security, energy-consuming and efficiency, of the main hash functions standardized by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). In the end, the paper will give a comparison between the studied hash functions aiming to come up with a recommendation of good lightweight hash functions suitable for implementation in an IoT framework.

Government's Dynamic Approach to Addressing Challenges of Cybersecurity in South Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cyber Space

Cybersecurity is the practice of making the networks that constitute cyber space secure against intrusions. The aim is to maintain the confidentiality, the availability and integrity of information, by detecting interferences. Traditionally, cybersecurity has focused on preventing intrusions and monitoring ports. The evolving threat landscape, however, calls for a more dynamic approach. It is increasingly clear that total cybersecurity is impossible, unless government develops a cyber-security strategy. The aim of this chapter is to discuss government's dynamic approach to addressing challenges of cybersecurity. The chapter looks at the co-ordination of cyber-security activities so as to have a coordinated approach to cyber-crime. This chapter also highlights the idea of protecting sensitive data for the public good. It is generally accepted that technology has become indispensable in modern society. Government's cybersecurity presents a unique challenge simply because of the volume of threats that agencies working for government face on a daily basis.

Cyber Space Security Assessment Case Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 1060-1092
Author(s):  
Hanaa. M. Said ◽  
Rania El Gohary ◽  
Mohamed Hamdy ◽  
Abdelbadeeh M. Salem
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Reference Measure ◽  
Decision Tress ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
Reference Measurements

Cyberspace is known as the digital electronic medium for the knowing range of securing in the cyberspace. Therefore the importance of inferring the reference measure in the form of assessment procedure to improve the knowledge and making the decision for the e- government services. A series of the standards build on the application of data mining methods specifically represented as decision tress model, Logistic regression, association rules model, Bayesian network for making reference measurements, to measure the extent of securing the data, and the provided services. The authors discuss various types of cyber-attacks describing how data mining helps in detection and prevention of these attacks. A comparative analysis between a set of selected frameworks is presented. Finally this chapter imparts numbers of applications for the data mining Methodologies in Cyber Security. Results applied on the site of the authority for cleaning and beautifying Cairo governorate in Egypt.

Cyber Security and Business Growth

2016 ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Akanksha Sharma ◽  
Prashant Tandekar
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Business World ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Customer Trust ◽  
Telecom Sector

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits along with the threat of serious cyber-attacks that had been demonstrated over the past few years. Due to cybercrime business world drains huge money each year and incurs a large amount in resolving a single attack. It also damages organization's reputation and brand image, loss of intellectual property and sensitive data, loss of customer trust etc. Addressing major threats and challenges begins with setting up information security policy to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of company information and communication. Since telecom Sector is on its boom, a technological solution can solve the immediate challenges of identifying, investigating, and prosecuting computer- related crimes and changes required for long-term problem solving.

scholarly journals Deterrence by Denial approach for the most known State Cyber Vulnerabilities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser AlAzwani ◽  
Tom Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
Cyber Deterrence

Cyber deterrence by denial strategy can be practised by the state by making it hard for adversaries to succeed any attempt of attacking. It was practised during nuclear deterrence strategies as well as in many other conventional deterrence. This paper argues the functionality of cyber deterrence by denial in deterring cyber threats. In this paper, our attempt is to define cyber deterrence by denial, model it, explore operational roles of cyber security technologies in approaching deterrence by denial within cyber space. Model analysis shed lights over practicing deterrence by denial and its vital role in understanding how efficiently denial can work in maximize failure of any attack which will impact in maximizing cost of cyber attacks to the attacker. Due to limitations in cyber security technologies, unknown cyber threat might not be deterred with assumed approach. Proposed model confirmed that deterrence by denial strategy might works in deterring known cyber threats within instrumental model. As for the benefit of enhancing deterrence in cyber space there is a serious need to reduce the tendency to ignore exploring this strategy.

China-US mistrust threatens cyber security

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Governance Regime ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Global Conference

Subject China and the global internet governance regime. Significance Cyber security was a leading topic at the Global Conference on Cyberspace that took place on April 16-17 in The Hague. As online tensions escalate and cyber attacks grow in prevalence, the direction of Chinese policy will be crucial in determining the future of the global internet. At the same time, the United States has lost much political capital and bargaining power. Impacts China may try to establish alternative internet structures and systems. China's conception of national sovereignty will hold back the cooperation procedures necessary to manage cyber space incidents. Without international cooperation, countries and companies may seek to retaliate against cyber attacks rather than merely ward them off.

Cyber Security and Business Growth

2018 ◽  
pp. 1208-1221
Author(s):  
Akanksha Sharma ◽  
Prashant Tandekar
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Business World ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Customer Trust ◽  
Telecom Sector

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits along with the threat of serious cyber-attacks that had been demonstrated over the past few years. Due to cybercrime business world drains huge money each year and incurs a large amount in resolving a single attack. It also damages organization's reputation and brand image, loss of intellectual property and sensitive data, loss of customer trust etc. Addressing major threats and challenges begins with setting up information security policy to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of company information and communication. Since telecom Sector is on its boom, a technological solution can solve the immediate challenges of identifying, investigating, and prosecuting computer- related crimes and changes required for long-term problem solving.

Government's Dynamic Approach to Addressing Challenges of Cybersecurity in South Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 364-381
Author(s):  
Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cyber Space

Cybersecurity is the practice of making the networks that constitute cyber space secure against intrusions. The aim is to maintain the confidentiality, the availability and integrity of information, by detecting interferences. Traditionally, cybersecurity has focused on preventing intrusions and monitoring ports. The evolving threat landscape, however, calls for a more dynamic approach. It is increasingly clear that total cybersecurity is impossible, unless government develops a cyber-security strategy. The aim of this chapter is to discuss government's dynamic approach to addressing challenges of cybersecurity. The chapter looks at the co-ordination of cyber-security activities so as to have a coordinated approach to cyber-crime. This chapter also highlights the idea of protecting sensitive data for the public good. It is generally accepted that technology has become indispensable in modern society. Government's cybersecurity presents a unique challenge simply because of the volume of threats that agencies working for government face on a daily basis.

Comparison between Saudi Arabia and USA: Prevention and Dealing with Cyber Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Sonia Ibrahim ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The Us ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Training And Support

Cyber security practices mainly involve the prevention of external threats to software, hardware, server data, and other assets which are connected to the internet. Organizations follow a lot of cyber security practices to protect their systems and databases from malicious cyber actors. Cybercriminals use different techniques like spear-phishing, phishing, password attack, denial of service, ransomware, etc. to cause harm to people, organizations, and governments and steal important information from them. We analyzed the use of deep learning algorithms to deal with cyber-attacks. Deep neural networks or deep learning consist of machine learning procedures to support the network to fix complex issues and learn from unmanaged data. In addition, we also analyzed some of the cyber security laws and practices implemented in the US and Saudi Arabia to work collaboratively against cyber threats. It is observed that both countries are doing well against cyberthreats, but they need to work even more to provide training and support to professionals in the public sector who handle sensitive data about cyber security.

Detecting SQL Injection Using Correlative Log Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.32) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
T Sreeja ◽  
Dr Manna Sheela Rani Chetty ◽  
Sekhar Babu Boddu
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Log Analysis ◽  
Security Market ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Automated Tools ◽  
Global Demography

The spiking landscape of cyber-attacks is reflecting its trend towards invoking vulnerabilities in a web application. The vulnerabilities seem to be over-growing second by second beside being over-coming time to time. The reason behind is, new attack vectors are often being deployed by the threat actors. The global cyber security market alone has brought a turnover of about $350 billion, which shows how wide the attack landscape is and how expensive it is to detect, protect and respond to the cyber issues. Most of the security experts have quoted that, the average cost of a data breach will exceed to $150million by 2020 and about 80 percent of the global demography were nowhere aware of such attacks. From the past few years, SQL injection is acting as a major vector in breaching the sensitive data. Detecting SQL injection through log correlation is the most effective methodology utilized under adaptive environments seeking no tool investigation. This paper exposes a detection methodology of an SQL injection attack without any mere concentration on automated tools. The paper goes with a motto of detection through configuring the available resources like web server,database,and an IDS in a way of creating adaptable environment that can bring the entire attacker information through log analysis. The paper would represent the attacker phases in a finite automata.  

scholarly journals Deterrence by Denial approach for the most known State Cyber Vulnerabilities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser AlAzwani ◽  
Tom Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
Cyber Deterrence

Cyber deterrence by denial strategy can be practised by the state by making it hard for adversaries to succeed any attempt of attacking. It was practised during nuclear deterrence strategies as well as in many other conventional deterrence. This paper argues the functionality of cyber deterrence by denial in deterring cyber threats. In this paper, our attempt is to define cyber deterrence by denial, model it, explore operational roles of cyber security technologies in approaching deterrence by denial within cyber space. Model analysis shed lights over practicing deterrence by denial and its vital role in understanding how efficiently denial can work in maximize failure of any attack which will impact in maximizing cost of cyber attacks to the attacker. Due to limitations in cyber security technologies, unknown cyber threat might not be deterred with assumed approach. Proposed model confirmed that deterrence by denial strategy might works in deterring known cyber threats within instrumental model. As for the benefit of enhancing deterrence in cyber space there is a serious need to reduce the tendency to ignore exploring this strategy.

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