This paper proposes a novel approach to analyze the impacts of cyber layer failures (i.e., protection failures and monitoring failures) on the reliability evaluation of composite power systems. The reliability and availability of the cyber layer and...
Currently, organizations are faced with a variety of cyber-threats and are possibly challenged by a wide range of cyber-attacks of varying frequency, complexity, and impact. However, they can do something to prevent, or at least mitigate, these cyber...
With the increasing deployment of advanced sensing and measurement devices, the modern distribution system is evolved into a cyber-physical power distribution system (CPPDS). Due to the extensive application of information and communication technolog...
Cyber threats to industrial control systems (ICSs) have increased as information and communications technology (ICT) has been incorporated. In response to these cyber threats, we are implementing a range of security equipment and specialized training...
The maritime industry is constantly evolving and posing new challenges, especially with increasing digitalization, which has raised concerns about cyber-attacks on maritime supply chain agents. Although scholars have proposed various methods and clas...
Cyber-attacks continue to grow, both in terms of volume and sophistication. This is aided by an increase in available computational power, expanding attack surfaces, and advancements in the human understanding of how to make attacks undetectable. Uns...
This paper looks at the problem of cybersecurity in modern cyber-physical and information systems and proposes an immune-like approach to the information security of modern complex systems. This approach is based on the mathematical modeling in infor...
The focus in this paper is placed on shared responsibility and ethics in health policy, specific to Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare systems. The article assesses how the introduction of IoT brings risks to the security of medical syste...
Cyber defense has evolved into an algorithmically intensive discipline where mathematical rigor and adaptive computation underpin the robustness and continuity of digital infrastructures. This review consolidates the algorithmic spectrum that support...
Today, power systems have transformed considerably and taken a new shape of geographically distributed systems from the locally centralized systems thereby leading to a new infrastructure in the framework of networked control cyber-physical system (C...
Cyber physical systems (CPS) in a manufacturing and automation context can be referred to different manufacturing process, including design, simulation, control, and verification. However, for data analytics, the concept of CPS is relatively new, and...
This paper presents a comprehensive and evidence-based cyber-risk assessment approach specifically designed for Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS)- and Internet-of-Medical Devices (IoMT)-based collaborative digital healthcare systems, which levera...
Although artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can be deployed to improve cyber security management, not all managers understand the different types of AI/ML and how they are to be deployed alongside the benefits associated with soci...
Cyber attack detection is the process of detecting and responding to malicious or unauthorized activities in networks, computer systems, and digital environments. The objective is to identify these attacks early, safeguard sensitive data, and minimiz...
In today’s world, technology has become deep-rooted and more accessible than ever over a plethora of different devices and platforms, ranging from company servers and commodity PCs to mobile phones and wearables, interconnecting a wide range of stake...
Increasing power consumption and reliance on non-predictable renewable power generation is pushing the transition from analog to digital power grid substations forward. Grid digitalization helps to reduce substation complexity and therefore costs, an...
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The goal of this three-year longitudinal study was to examine the buffering effect of parental mediation of adolescents’ technology use (i.e., restrictive, co-viewing, and instructive) on the relationships among cyber aggression involvement and...
This paper provides a close investigation into the landscape of both cyber threats and actual incidents in the maritime sector, identifying the cyber trends and challenges as they relate to safe navigation and marine shipping. As an important subset...
This study introduces a novel approach to cyber defense exercises, emphasizing the emulation of technical tasks to create realistic incident response scenarios. Unlike traditional cyber ranges or tabletop exercises, this method enables both managemen...
The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has positioned the Internet of Things as a pivotal force in intelligent vehicles. With the source of vehicle-to-everything (V2X), Internet of Things (IoT) networks, and inter-vehicle communication, intel...
The secure functioning of cyber-physical systems depends on the presence and amount of harmful (unwanted and malicious) information in its digital network content. The functioning of cyber-physical systems is carried out in non-stationary conditions...
Microgrids are growing in importance in the Smart Grid paradigm for power systems. Microgrid security is becoming crucial since these systems increasingly rely on information and communication technologies. Many technologies have been proposed in the...
In-vehicle communication has become an integral part of today’s driving environment considering the growing add-ons of sensor-centric communication and computing devices inside a vehicle for a range of purposes including vehicle monitoring, phy...
Streets perform a number of important functions and have a wide range of activities performed in them. There is a small but growing focus on streets as a more generalisable, atomised, and therefore more manageable unit of development and analysis tha...
The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools into mechanical devices in routine use within the aviation industry has heightened cyber-security concerns. The extent of the inherent vulnerabilities in the software tools that...
The convergence of industrial communication networks and electric drive systems has increased the range of risks associated with induction motor operation, with abnormal motor operation potentially arising from either physical motor faults or malicio...
The increase in the number and complexity of interconnected systems requires new methods to identify potential threats in today’s hyperconnected world. This trend affects systems ranging from smart homes and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to...
(1) Background: For patients irradiated due to prostate cancer, monitoring of bladder volume (BV) is crucial for accuracy of radiation delivery and minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissues. Due to the limited imaging capabilities of the Cyb...
The paper suggests a method of early detection of cyber-attacks by using DDoS attacks as an example) using the method of extreme filtering in a mode close real time. The process of decomposition of the total signal (additive superposition of attackin...
The rapid advancement of networking, computing, sensing, and control systems has introduced a wide range of cyber threats, including those from new devices deployed during the development of scenarios. With recent advancements in automobiles, medical...
Industry 4.0 houses diverse technologies including wireless communication and shared networks for internal and external operations. Due to the wireless nature and remote operability, the exposure to security threats is high. Cyber risk detection and...
Existing Cyber Resilience Assessment Guidelines, including those of the Bank of Korea (BoK), focus on governance-oriented compliance and lack quantitative criteria for measuring the operational effectiveness of security technologies—a Policy&nd...
Vehicular Ad hoc networks (VANETs) as spontaneous wireless communication technology of vehicles has a wide range of applications like road safety, navigation and other electric car technologies, however its practicability is greatly hampered by cyber...
With the rapid rate at which networking technologies are changing, there is a need to regularly update network activity datasets to accurately reflect the current state of network infrastructure/traffic. The uniqueness of this work was that this was...
To cope with the increasing complexity of digital systems programming, deep learning techniques have recently been proposed to enhance software deployment by analysing source code for different purposes, ranging from performance and energy improvemen...
A cyber–physical underwater vehicle is equipped with bio-inspired flapping fins positioned on the sides of the vehicle’s main body. The proposed control surfaces are inspired by fish pectoral fins, generating forces and moments that can p...
Collision avoidance is an important feature in advanced driver-assistance systems, aimed at providing correct, timely and reliable warnings before an imminent collision (with objects, vehicles, pedestrians, etc.). The obstacle recognition library is...
We offer a reflection on our own praxis as designers and developers of a learning system for mature-age students through the Open University (OU) UK’s internationally recognised supported-open learning approach. The learning system (or course or modu...
This research leverages Memgraph, an open-source graph database, to analyze graph-based network data and apply Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for a detailed classification of cyberattack tactics categorized by the MITRE ATT&CK framework. As part of...
With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), a wide range of IoT applications have been developed and deployed in recent years. To match the heterogeneous application requirements in IoT and CPS system...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and their Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) have attracted great interest for automatic management of industrial infrastructures, such as water and wastewater systems. A range of technologies can be employe...
The smart grid merges cyber-physical systems (CPS) infrastructure with information and communication technologies (ICT) to ensure efficient power generation, smart energy distribution in real-time, and optimisation, and it is rapidly becoming the cur...
The thematics focusing on inserting intelligence in cyber-physical critical infrastructures (CI) have been receiving a lot of attention in the recent years. This paper presents a methodology able to differentiate between the normal state of a system...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly targeted by cyber threats but often lack the financial and technical resources to implement advanced security systems. This paper presents HoneyLite, a lightweight and dynamic honeypot-based...
This survey explores applications of explainable artificial intelligence in manufacturing and industrial cyber–physical systems. As technological advancements continue to integrate artificial intelligence into critical infrastructure and indust...
The growing industry and its complex and large information sets require Big Data (BD) technology and its open-source frameworks (Apache Hadoop) to (1) collect, (2) analyze, and (3) process the information. This information usually ranges in size from...
Optimal operation of energy systems plays an important role to enhance their lifetime security and efficiency. The determination of optimal operating strategies requires intelligent utilization of massive data accumulated during operation or predicti...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have limited resources and governance that might restrict their ability to conduct dynamic cyber risk assessment (DCRA) and maintain effective cyber situational awareness (CSA). This study investigates stakeh...
In this study, we address the challenge of detecting and mitigating cyber attacks in the distributed cooperative control of islanded AC microgrids, with a particular focus on detecting False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs), a significant threat to the...
As an active defense paradigm, cyber deception technology effectively misleads attackers by constructing deceptive network environments, thereby increasing the cost of attack operations and introducing uncertainty into their decision-making, while pr...
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