Network-based attacks and their mitigation are of increasing importance in our ever-connected world. Often network-based attacks address valuable data, which the attacker either encrypts to extort ransom or steals to make money reselling, or both. After ...

Collaborative predictive blacklisting (CPB) allows to forecast future attack sources based on logs and alerts contributed by multiple organizations. Unfortunately, however, research on CPB has only focused on increasing the number of predicted attacks ...

Most attacks on computer and software systems are caused by threats to known vulnerabilities. Part of the reason is that it is difficult to possess necessary broad and deep knowledge of security related strategic knowledge to choose mitigating solutions ...

Organizations must implement effective training to raise staff awareness about insider threats and the need for organizations to adopt a more effective approach to identifying potential risks and then taking proactive steps to mitigate them.