Resilience and Vulnerability in Cybersecurity

Dear Colleagues,

Resilience in Cybersecurity addresses the need of improving the ability of organizations to withstand and recover from disruptive events. Resilience is also characterized by the ability to plan, absorb, recover from, and adapt to cyber threats. Many such threats exploit technical systems’ vulnerabilities to carry out the malicious events, e.g., vulnerabilities of system’s procedure, design, implementation, or internal controls. As the intensity and complexity of cyber attacks increase, designing, implementing, and configuring secure software and hardware systems are no longer optional.

This Special Issue on Resilience and Vulnerability in Cybersecurity focuses on submissions describing technical work advancing cybersecurity resilience and vulnerability. Special interest is given to threats and vulnerabilities associated with applications, systems, and networks; new techniques for scanning for technical vulnerabilities; performing continuous security event monitoring; acting on threat intelligence; protecting information against targeted cyber attacks; security event logging and management; using new technologies such as programmable data planes and programmable network interface cards to speed up threat detection and mitigation; improving applications, systems, and networks’ ability to withstand and recover from disruptive events; recovery of applications, systems, and networks from cyber attacks to an effective operational posture; designing applications, systems, and networks that reduce attack surface areas; and defending applications, systems, and networks against threats by active monitoring for adversarial penetration and execution of counterattacks.

Prof. Dr. Jorge Crichigno
Guest Editor

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