As organizations lean more heavily on their IT systems, managing cyber risk is gaining increasing importance. Organizations are often challenged to determine which cybersecurity risk framework they should adopt. Choosing the right framework can have...
As technology advances and digitalization becomes more prevalent in the industry, the cyber threats to maritime systems and operations have significantly increased. The maritime sector relies heavily on interconnected networks, communication systems,...
There are several areas of knowledge in which (pseudo-)random numbers are necessary, for example, in statistical–mathematical simulation or in cryptography and system security, among others. Depending on the area of application, it will be nece...
The advent of quantum computing presents a significant threat to the security of asymmetric cryptographic algorithms, necessitating the adoption of new cryptographic mechanisms resilient to quantum-based attacks. This need is particularly critical fo...
The modern power grid is considered a Smart Grid (SG) when it relies extensively on technologies that integrate traditional power infrastructure with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The dependence on Internet of Things (IoT)-based...
Cyber risk management is a very important problem for every company connected to the internet. Usually, risk management is done considering only Risk Analysis without connecting it with Vulnerability Assessment, using external and expensive tools. In...
Cybersecurity is a never-ending battle against attackers, who try to identify and exploit misconfigurations and software vulnerabilities before being patched. In this ongoing conflict, it is important to analyse the properties of the vulnerability ti...
The paper presents a comprehensive exploration of a novel image encryption and decryption methodology, leveraging finite state machines (FSM) for the secure transformation of visual data. The study meticulously evaluates the effectiveness of the prop...
With the massive application of IoT and sensor technologies, the study of lightweight ciphers has become an important research topic. In this paper, an effective lightweight LZUC (lightweight Zu Chongzhi) cipher based on chaotic system is proposed to...
Background: Fatty acids (FAs) represent a ubiquitous class of nonpolar alkyl carboxylate metabolites with diverse biological functions. Nutrition, metabolism, and endogenous and exogenous stress influence the overall FA metabolic status and transport...
The maritime industry’s increasing integration of IT/OT systems into vessel operations has significantly elevated its exposure to cyber–physical threats, making the development of effective cyber risk management strategies a necessity. Th...
Due to great interest in the secure storage and transmission of color images, the necessity for an efficient and robust RGB image encryption technique has grown. RGB image encryption ensures the confidentiality of color images during storage and tran...
To ensure the security of sensitive data, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is adopted as an asymmetric method that balances security and efficiency. Nevertheless, embedding messages into elliptic curve (EC) points poses a significant challenge. The...
The present paper evaluates the misalignment and geometry distortion of the standard National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) test artifact in Inconel 718 alloy, when several layers with and without supports are employed to manufacture i...
We report measurements and identification of the E3 4f
Cooling processes are responsible for a significant portion (20%) of global energy consumption and raise environmental concerns such as ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect, and high energy use. This study investigates the potential of R152a, a ref...
A chaotic system and two Nonlinear Feadback Shift Registers (NFSRs) are used to generate a new stream cipher in this paper. This design can be used for efficient encryption in resource-constrained devices or environments. The chaotic system is quanti...
Smart grids (SGs) are attracting attention as high value-added platforms, which mass-produce new business models through real-time information sharing. However, the open-ended information structure of SGs increases the risk of exposure to cyberattack...
This paper presents a novel discrete-time (DT) chaotic map-based random-number generator (RNG), namely the Siponi map, which is a modification of the Logistic map. The Logistic map is usually applied to cryptosystems, mainly for the purposes of gener...
The growing use of the internet has resulted in an exponential rise in the use of web applications. Businesses, industries, financial and educational institutions, and the general populace depend on web applications. This mammoth rise in their usage...
The exponential growth in transmission of multimedia over the Internet and unsecured channels of communications is putting pressure on scientists and engineers to develop effective and efficient security schemes. In this paper, an image encryption sc...
The security of resource-constrained devices is critical in the IoT field, given that everything is interconnected. Therefore, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initialized the lightweight cryptography (LWC) project to standar...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other industry stakeholders have been working together to enable fluorescence intensities of flow cytometer calibration beads to be assigned quanti...
The number of techniques to measure number concentrations and size distributions of submicrometer particles has recently increased. Submicrometer particle standards are needed to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of these techniques. The numbe...
Time synchronization is critical for wireless sensors networks in industrial automation, e.g., event detection and process control of industrial plants and equipment need a common time reference. However, cyber-physical attacks are enormous threats c...
In 2023, the Ascon cipher suite was selected as the winner of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardization process for lightweight cryptography, and has emerged as the leading candidate for cryptographic algorithms in res...
Calibration is crucial in quantitative analysis, ensuring the traceability of standards for an accurate comparison of results. In mercury determinations, a gas calibrator unit containing liquid mercury is used for calibration by injecting headspace v...
Nine elements found in 24 cumin samples from China, India, Syria and Turkey were measured by laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LA-TOF-MS) for the purpose of collecting data that could be used to d...
A Security Operation Center (SOC) is a security control center for monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity threats. PT (Perseroan Terbatas) Non-Bank Financial Company (NBFC) has implemented an SOC to secure its information s...
It is very important to understand the residual performance of a structure for repair, retrofit, and reuse of a building after a fire. In this study, an experiment is conducted on the residual performance of real-scale siliceous aggregates-based rein...
The metal and molecular vapor separation analysis (MMVSA) of solid samples with an atomic absorption detector (AA) was investigated for the direct determination of manganese and copper in biological materials. An open column made with a molybdenum tu...
The Post Office Horizon scandal represents one of the most severe miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history, rooted in the deployment of a defective IT system and the institutional suppression of evidence that exposed its unreliability....
Owing to the intrinsic sparsity of GNSS signals in the correlation domain, compressed sensing (CS) is attractive for the rapid acquisition of high-dynamic GNSS signals. However, the compressed measurement-associated noise folding inherently amplifies...
For almost one decade, the academic community has been working in the design and analysis of new lightweight primitives. This cryptography development aims to provide solutions tailored for resource-constrained devices. The U.S. National Institute of...
Semiconductor lasers have been widely employed in chaos-based information processing due to their ability to generate enhanced chaotic bandwidths. In this study, we investigate broadband polarization chaos in optically injected QD spin-VCSELs and the...
The IoT market has grown significantly in recent years, and it is estimated that it will continue to do so. For this reason, the need to identify new solutions to ensure security is vital for the future development in this field. Inadequate sources o...
We are pleased to announce that the 49th annual meeting of NATAS cwill be held in Rockville, MD, a beautiful city that is part of the Washington D.C. National Capital Area, on the DC metro system (allowing easy access to Washington museums and sites)...
With the outstanding growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, security and power efficiency of integrated circuits can no longer be overlooked. Current approved standards for cryptographic algorithms are not suitable for constrained environments....
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing analytical methods to characterize extracellular vesicles (EVs) to support the urgent need for standardized EV reference materials (RMs). This study used orthogonal techniques, c...
As the number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) rises in the world, the amount of sensitive data used also increases, making them targets for cyberattacks. SMEs face a host of issues such as a lack of resources and poor cybersecurity talent, res...
Confusion, diffusion, and encryption keys affect the quality of image encryption. This research proposes combining bit- and pixel-level permutation and substitution methods based on three advanced chaotic logistic map methods. The three chaotic metho...
The present paper reports a new application: the voltammetric determination in herbal medicines of ultra-trace thallium(I), in the presence of lead(II), tin(II) and antimony(III) as interfering metals, by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWA...
Key management is a central problem in information security. The development of quantum computation could make the protocols we currently use unsecure. Because of that, new structures and hard problems are being proposed. In this work, we give a prop...
Preprocessing data in a reproducible and robust way is one of the current challenges in untargeted metabolomics workflows. Data curation in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) involves the removal of biologically non-relevant...
For complex matrices such as environmental samples, there is usually a problem with not fully resolved peaks during GC/MS analysis. The PARADISe computer program (based on the PARFAC2 model) allows the identification of peaks using the deconvoluted m...
Annona senegalensis pers, Sutherlandia frutescens (L.), and Withania somnifera (L.) are abundant plants and widely distributed in the Limpopo, Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, North West and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa. The three plants are among tho...
Different acellular assays were developed to measure particulate matter’s (PM) oxidative potential (OP), a metric used to predict the ability of PM in generating oxidative stress in living organisms. However, there are still fundamental open is...
Nanocoatings have numerous potential applications in the indoor environment, such as flooring finishes with increased scratch- and wear-resistance. However, given concerns about the potential environmental and human health effects of nanomaterials, i...
This study examines the privacy protection challenges in data sharing between organisations and third-party entities, focusing on changing collaborations in the digital age. Utilising a mixed-method approach, we categorise data-sharing practices into...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems have introduced new classes of security incidents that traditional response frameworks were not designed to manage, ranging from model manipulation and data exfiltration to misinformation cascades an...
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