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Information Security Risk Assessment

  • Ievgeniia Kuzminykh,
  • Bogdan Ghita,
  • Volodymyr Sokolov and
  • Taimur Bakhshi

Information security risk assessment is an important part of enterprises’ management practices that helps to identify, quantify, and prioritize risks against criteria for risk acceptance and objectives relevant to the organization. Risk management re...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics & Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,761 Views
62 Pages

For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event. However, the cyber-insurance market suffers from the problem of information asymmetry, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,250 Views
19 Pages

A Layered Trust Information Security Architecture

  • Robson De Oliveira Albuquerque,
  • Luis Javier García Villalba,
  • Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco,
  • Fábio Buiati and
  • Tai-Hoon Kim

1 December 2014

Information can be considered the most important asset of any modern organization. Securing this information involves preserving confidentially, integrity and availability, the well-known CIA triad. In addition, information security is a risk managem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Computing for Mobile Security and Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,960 Views
21 Pages

Information security has been predicted as a barrier for future sustainable computing. Regarding information security of secure sustainable computing, the role of information security managers has received attention. In particular, transformational l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced IT based Future Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,277 Views
34 Pages

Application of Multicriteria Methods for Improvement of Information Security Metrics

  • Aliya Abdiraman,
  • Nikolaj Goranin,
  • Simas Balevicius,
  • Assel Nurusheva and
  • Inga Tumasonienė

16 May 2023

Metrics are a set of numbers that are used to obtain information about the operation of a process or system. In our case, metrics are used to assess the level of information security of information and communication infrastructure facilities. Metrics...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,910 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2020

This research establishes a security evaluation model from the insider leakage perspective and suggests an objective evaluation measurement. Organizational security risks are fused and compounded both inside and outside the organization. Although mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,850 Views
16 Pages

Key Concepts of Systemological Approach to CPS Adaptive Information Security Monitoring

  • Maria Poltavtseva,
  • Alexander Shelupanov,
  • Dmitriy Bragin,
  • Dmitry Zegzhda and
  • Elena Alexandrova

15 December 2021

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) use digital control of physical processes. This allows attackers to conduct various cyberattacks on these systems. According to the current trends, an information security monitoring system (ISMS) becomes part of a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multi-Criteria Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,066 Views
25 Pages

14 April 2020

This article examines the occurrences of four types of unethical employee information security behavior—misbehavior in networks/applications, dangerous Web use, omissive security behavior, and poor access control—and their relationships w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Business and Behavioral Financial Economics with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,757 Views
29 Pages

Security as a Natural Law: A Quantum-Inspired Hypothesis for Information Persistence

  • Pete Herzog,
  • Michael Sletten,
  • Šarūnas Grigaliūnas and
  • Rasa Brūzgienė

7 July 2026

This paper proposes a quantum-inspired hypothesis that cybersecurity can be modeled as information persistence: the maintenance of separation between protected and adverse system states under entropy, latency, and control cost. The objective is to pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,575 Views
21 Pages

1 February 2025

This study aims to describe and assess the impact of critical infrastructure (CI) cybersecurity issues on the sustainable development of smart cities. This study highlights the integration of PayTech systems into the broader CI landscape, highlightin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Technologies for Sustainable Development of Smart Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,790 Views
19 Pages

15 March 2021

This study empirically investigates the influence of information security marketing and response cost on employees’ information security intention in the container shipping industry. Survey data were collected from 285 respondents in Taiwan. Explorat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Applications of Data Science and Internet of Things Techniques Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,845 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2019

With the high integration of smart grid information and physical systems, the security of information systems must affect the safe and stable operation of physical systems. Risk assessment is an effectual means to objectively evaluate the information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
16,825 Views
16 Pages

Modified Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm for Information Security

  • Oluwakemi Christiana Abikoye,
  • Ahmad Dokoro Haruna,
  • Abdullahi Abubakar,
  • Noah Oluwatobi Akande and
  • Emmanuel Oluwatobi Asani

5 December 2019

The wide acceptability of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as the most efficient of all of the symmetric cryptographic techniques has further opened it up to more attacks. Efforts that were aimed at securing information while using AES is still bei...

  • Review
  • Open Access
125 Citations
28,415 Views
38 Pages

9 April 2021

A grave concern to an organization’s information security is employees’ behavior when they do not value information security policy compliance (ISPC). Most ISPC studies evaluate compliance and noncompliance behaviors separately. However, the literatu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,166 Views
5 Pages

Maturity Models in Information Security Audits

  • Daniel Zamora-Jimenez,
  • Lidia Prudente-Tixteco and
  • Pablo Ramon Mercado-Hernandez

2 February 2026

Information security auditing plays an important role in information security management because it assesses the status of security mechanisms, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Most information security auditing methodologies have been bas...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of First Summer School on Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,357 Views
9 Pages

Information Security Culture (ISC) has been suggested as a means of strengthening employees’ information security in the workplace. However, the role of employees and their digital skills in the process has been largely overlooked. Establishing...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,315 Views
15 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,753 Views
18 Pages

Future Development of Taiwan’s Smart Cities from an Information Security Perspective

  • Shiann Ming Wu,
  • Dongqiang Guo,
  • Yenchun Jim Wu and
  • Yung Chang Wu

30 November 2018

Smart cities are primarily based on information and communications technology development and applications across various academic subjects and domains. Integrating new-generation information and communications technologies, including the Internet of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being and Happiness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,848 Views
25 Pages

5 March 2021

The advancement of information communication technology in healthcare institutions has increased information security breaches. Scholars and industry practitioners have reported that most security breaches are due to negligence towards organizational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,590 Views
18 Pages

6 April 2020

A smart city is developed through the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet, and other new generation technologies regarding information and communication, and data resources in various fields are integrated and applied...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning and Smart City Decision Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,562 Views
33 Pages

Information Security Methods—Modern Research Directions

  • Alexander Shelupanov,
  • Oleg Evsyutin,
  • Anton Konev,
  • Evgeniy Kostyuchenko and ,
  • Dmitry Kruchinin and
  • Dmitry Nikiforov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 January 2019

In Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) one of the main areas of research is information security. The work is carried out by a scientific group under the guidance of Professor Shelupanov. One of the directions is the deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry: Anniversary Feature Papers 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,811 Views
15 Pages

With the huge transfers of data involved in the modern world, it is both crucial and challenging to maintain the security of data. This paper proposes a novel algorithm of information embedding into digital images that could be used to protect confid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,575 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019 surprised information security practitioners in the organizations due to the change imposed on employees’ work routines. Employees were asked to work from home, and therefore changes were necessary to reduce information...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Climate, Challenges, Trends, and Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,925 Views
16 Pages

28 September 2021

Information explosion and pressures are leading organizations to invest heavily in information security to ensure that information technology decisions align with business goals and manage risks. Limited studies have been done using small- and-medium...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in IoT and Cyber/Physical Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,460 Views
31 Pages

Holistic Information Security Management and Compliance Framework

  • Šarūnas Grigaliūnas,
  • Michael Schmidt,
  • Rasa Brūzgienė,
  • Panayiota Smyrli and ,
  • Stephanos Andreou and
  • Audrius Lopata
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 October 2024

The growing complexity of cybersecurity threats demands a robust framework that integrates various security domains, addressing the issue of disjointed security practices that fail to comply with evolving regulations. This paper introduces a novel in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Information Security and Privacy and Cyber Resilience)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,368 Views
4 Pages

22 June 2020

Nowadays, data security is becoming an emerging and challenging issue due to the growth in web-connected devices and significant data generation from information and communication technology (ICT) platforms. Many existing types of research from indus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry-Adapted Machine Learning for Information Security)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
117 Citations
21,108 Views
18 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review of Information Security in Chatbots

  • Jing Yang,
  • Yen-Lin Chen,
  • Lip Yee Por and
  • Chin Soon Ku

23 May 2023

Chatbots have become increasingly popular in recent years, but they also present security risks and vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. This systematic literature review examines the existing research relating to information security in chatbo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptography and Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
628 Views
26 Pages

The Adaptive Deficit: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective on Information Security

  • Emmanouil Mavrofidis,
  • Aikaterini Tsatsaroni and
  • Achilles D. Kameas

17 September 2026

Despite growing regulation and mature security tooling, cyberattacks continue to rise. This study examines how information security professionals perceive the challenges of securing modern systems. More specifically, we consider increasing technologi...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,949 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2024

Risk assessment is a critical sub-process in information security risk management (ISRM) that is used to identify an organization’s vulnerabilities and threats as well as evaluate current and planned security controls. Therefore, adequate resou...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,581 Views
21 Pages

Information Security Behavior in Health Information Systems: A Review of Research Trends and Antecedent Factors

  • Puspita Kencana Sari,
  • Putu Wuri Handayani,
  • Achmad Nizar Hidayanto,
  • Setiadi Yazid and
  • Rizal Fathoni Aji

14 December 2022

This study aims to review the literature on antecedent factors of information security related to the protection of health information systems (HISs) in the healthcare organization. We classify those factors into organizational and individual aspects...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,302 Views
6 Pages

29 November 2023

The differences between medical institutions in the security management of information systems were investigated by comparing the differences and the means used by personnel in different units in public and private hospitals. Personnel responsible fo...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,964 Views
2 Pages

Information and Future Internet Security, Trust and Privacy

  • Weizhi Meng,
  • Thanassis Giannetsos and
  • Christian D. Jensen

12 December 2022

The Internet has rapidly grown into a distributed and collaborative network with over one billion users, e.g., the Internet of Things (IoT). The future Internet will become the core of the next information infrastructure in regard to computation and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information and Future Internet Security, Trust and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,495 Views
21 Pages

Cyber Security Risk Modeling in Distributed Information Systems

  • Dmytro Palko,
  • Tetiana Babenko,
  • Andrii Bigdan,
  • Nikolay Kiktev and ,
  • Taras Hutsol,
  • Maciej Kuboń,
  • Hryhorii Hnatiienko,
  • Sylwester Tabor,
  • Oleg Gorbovy and
  • Andrzej Borusiewicz
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

13 February 2023

This paper deals with problems of the development and security of distributed information systems. It explores the challenges of risk modeling in such systems and suggests a risk-modeling approach that is responsive to the requirements of complex, di...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,619 Views
22 Pages

Advances in Optical Visual Information Security: A Comprehensive Review

  • Sachin,
  • Ravi Kumar,
  • Sakshi,
  • Raman Yadav and ,
  • Salla Gangi Reddy,
  • Anil Kumar Yadav and
  • Phool Singh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 January 2024

In the modern era, the secure transmission and storage of information are among the utmost priorities. Optical security protocols have demonstrated significant advantages over digital counterparts, i.e., a high speed, a complex degree of freedom, phy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Computational Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,692 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2021

Information security awareness (ISA) has become a vital issue, as security breaches often attributed to humans lead to losses for individuals and organizations. Information security (IS) education may be an effective strategy to improve students’ ISA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IMETI 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,085 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2015

Cloud computing has made it possible for private companies to make rapid changes in their computing environments. However, in the public sector, security issues hinder institutions from adopting cloud computing. To solve these security challenges, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,001 Views
29 Pages

MASISCo—Methodological Approach for the Selection of Information Security Controls

  • Mauricio Diéguez,
  • Carlos Cares,
  • Cristina Cachero and
  • Jorge Hochstetter

13 January 2023

As cyber-attacks grow worldwide, companies have begun to realize the importance of being protected against malicious actions that seek to violate their systems and access their information assets. Faced with this scenario, organizations must carry ou...

(This article belongs to the Collection Innovation in Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,752 Views
15 Pages

A Client-Centered Information Security and Cybersecurity Auditing Framework

  • Mário Antunes,
  • Marisa Maximiano and
  • Ricardo Gomes

19 April 2022

Information security and cybersecurity management play a key role in modern enterprises. There is a plethora of standards, frameworks, and tools, ISO 27000 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework being two relevant families of international Information...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,882 Views
12 Pages

As technology evolves, businesses face new threats and opportunities in the areas of information and information assets. These areas include information creation, refining, storage, and dissemination. Governments and other organizations around the wo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,122 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2021

In the Fourth Industrial Revolution era, data-based business management activities among enterprises proliferated are mainly based on digital transformation. In this change, the information security system and its operation are emphasized as essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,149 Views
23 Pages

19 November 2022

Due to the continuous advancement of smart tourism and the improvement of tourists’ security perception of personal information (SPPI), SPPI has become an important factor affecting tourist happiness (TH). However, few studies have been conduct...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,554 Views
29 Pages

21 August 2024

Cybercrime is currently rapidly developing, requiring an increased demand for information security knowledge. Attackers are becoming more sophisticated and complex in their assault tactics. Employees are a focal point since humans remain the ‘w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,254 Views
21 Pages

12 August 2022

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are found in many aspects of daily life, and they control and protect energy production, manufacturing and even healthcare. Due to long lifecycles and the use of legacy technologies, its associated security comes with ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,126 Views
26 Pages

Development of a Flexible Information Security Risk Model Using Machine Learning Methods and Ontologies

  • Alibek Barlybayev,
  • Altynbek Sharipbay,
  • Gulmira Shakhmetova and
  • Ainur Zhumadillayeva

28 October 2024

This paper presents a significant advancement in information security risk assessment by introducing a flexible and comprehensive model. The research integrates established standards, expert knowledge, machine learning, and ontological modeling to cr...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,820 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2023

Information systems misuse and data breaches are among the most common information security threats at the organisational and individual levels. Security, Education, Training and Awareness (SETA) program can be effective tools in addressing and preve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approaches and Strategies of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,165 Views
17 Pages

Shifted LT Code Security Scheme for Partial Information Encryption

  • Si Zhang,
  • Fanglin Niu,
  • Lizheng Wang and
  • Ling Yu

5 December 2022

The existing physical layer security technology based on fountain codes needs to ensure that the legal channel is superior to the eavesdropping channel; when the quality of the legal channel and the eavesdropping channel are close, the information se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,251 Views
21 Pages

A Comprehensive Security Architecture for Information Management throughout the Lifecycle of IoT Products

  • Narges Yousefnezhad,
  • Avleen Malhi,
  • Tuomas Keyriläinen and
  • Kary Främling

18 March 2023

The Internet of things (IoT) is expected to have an impact on business and the world at large in a way comparable to the Internet itself. An IoT product is a physical product with an associated virtual counterpart connected to the internet with compu...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
30,644 Views
20 Pages

Information Security and Cybersecurity Management: A Case Study with SMEs in Portugal

  • Mário Antunes,
  • Marisa Maximiano,
  • Ricardo Gomes and
  • Daniel Pinto

Information security plays a key role in enterprises management, as it deals with the confidentiality, privacy, integrity, and availability of one of their most valuable resources: data and information. Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SME) are se...

(This article belongs to the Collection Intelligent Security and Privacy Approaches against Cyber Threats)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,145 Views
21 Pages

As information technologies and the Internet have rapidly evolved, businesses have begun to use them to improve communication efficiency within and outside the organization. However, applications of information technologies are accompanied by informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,152 Views
21 Pages

25 June 2025

Insider threats pose significant challenges to organizations, seriously endangering information security and privacy protection. These threats arise when employees with legitimate access to systems and databases misuse their privileges. Such individu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Factors in Cyber Security: Social Engineering, Behavioural Aspects and Resilience Solutions)

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