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Dynamic vulnerability severity calculator for industrial control systems
- Pavlos Cheimonidis
https://ror.org/03bfqnx40Department of Computer Science, Democritus University of Thrace, 654 04, Kavála, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
https://ror.org/03bfqnx40Department of Computer Science, Democritus University of Thrace, 654 04, Kavála, Greece
International Journal of Information Security, Volume 23, Issue 4•Aug 2024, pp 2655-2676 • https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00858-4AbstractThe convergence of information and communication technologies has introduced new and advanced capabilities to Industrial Control Systems. However, concurrently, it has heightened their vulnerability to cyber attacks. Consequently, the imperative ...
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An autoML network traffic analyzer for cyber threat detection
- Alexandros Papanikolaou
Innovative Secure Technologies P.C., Thermi, Greece
, - Aggelos Alevizopoulos
Innovative Secure Technologies P.C., Thermi, Greece
, - Christos Ilioudis
https://ror.org/00708jp83Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, International Hellenic University, Thermi, Greece
, - Konstantinos Demertzis
https://ror.org/00708jp83Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
https://ror.org/00708jp83Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Kavala, Greece
International Journal of Information Security, Volume 22, Issue 5•Oct 2023, pp 1511-1530 • https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00703-0AbstractTimely detection and effective treatment of cyber-attacks for protecting personal and sensitive data from unauthorized disclosure constitute a core demand of citizens and a legal obligation of organizations that collect and process personal data. ...
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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Blockchain-based vaccination certificates management
- Charalampos Bampalas
International Hellenic University, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
International Hellenic University, Greece
PCI '22: Proceedings of the 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics•November 2022, pp 309-316• https://doi.org/10.1145/3575879.3576010With the explosion of COVID-19 cases and the government’s needs to control virus spreading, the development of effective and robust systems for managing vaccination certificates to restrict citizens’ activities has been in the centre of many ...
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Blockchain-Based Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Proof-of-Quality Consensus
- Andrea Michienzi,
- Dimitrios Chatziamanetoglou
Department of Computer ScienceInternational Hellenic UniversityKavalaGreeceihu.edu.gr
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer ScienceInternational Hellenic UniversityKavalaGreeceihu.edu.gr
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is contextualised knowledge, built on information that is collected, processed, analysed, and disseminated to the right audience, in order to comprehend a malicious threat actor’s motivation, goals, objectives, targets, and ...
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Deep Learning in IoT Intrusion Detection
- Stefanos Tsimenidis
Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Kavala Campus, Greece
, - Thomas Lagkas
Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Kavala Campus, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Kavala Campus, Greece
Journal of Network and Systems Management, Volume 30, Issue 1•Jan 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-021-09621-9AbstractThe Internet of Things (IoT) is the new paradigm of our times, where smart devices and sensors from across the globe are interconnected in a global grid, and distributed applications and services impact every area of human activity. With its huge ...
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- Stefanos Tsimenidis
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The Big Data era in IoT-enabled smart farming: Re-defining systems, tools, and techniques
- Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, 50100, Greece
, - Thomas Lagkas
Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, 65404, Kavala Campus, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, 65404, Kavala Campus, Greece
, - Paolo Bellavista
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Volume 168, Issue C•Feb 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.107043- 0Citation
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- Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
A Quantitative Evaluation of Trust in the Quality of Cyber Threat Intelligence Sources
- Thomas Schaberreiter
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
, - Veronika Kupfersberger
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
, - Konstantinos Rantos
International Hellenic University, Kavala, Greece
, - Arnolnt Spyros
Innovative Secure Technologies, Thessaloniki, Greece
, - Alexandros Papanikolaou
Innovative Secure Technologies, Thessaloniki, Greece
, - Christos Ilioudis
International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
, - Gerald Quirchmayr
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
ARES '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security•August 2019, Article No.: 83, pp 1-10• https://doi.org/10.1145/3339252.3342112Threat intelligence sharing has become a cornerstone of cooperative and collaborative cybersecurity. Sources providing such data have become more widespread in recent years, ranging from public entities (driven by legislatorial changes) to commercial ...
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- Thomas Schaberreiter
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Performance evaluation of TCP-BIAD in high-speed, long-distance networks
- Konstantinos Tsiknas
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece 65404
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece 65404
, - Christos J. Schinas
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece 67100
, - Andrew Soilemes
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece 67100
In this paper, the performance of Binary Increase Adaptive Decrease (TCP-BIAD) congestion control algorithm in high-speed long-distance networks is evaluated. As its name implies, this TCP variant is a combination of an enhanced binary increase ...
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- Article
WSACd - A Usable Access Control Framework for Smart Home Devices
- Konstantinos Fysarakis
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
, - Charalampos Konstantourakis
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Charalampos Manifavas
Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - Ioannis Papaefstathiou
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
AbstractComputing devices already permeate working and living environments; a trend which is expected to intensify in the coming years. However, the direct interaction smart devices often have with the physical world, along with the processing, storage ...
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- Konstantinos Fysarakis
- Article
Secure and Authenticated Access to LLN Resources Through Policy Constraints
- Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Fysarakis
Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece
, - Othonas Soultatos
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
, - Ioannis Askoxylakis
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
AbstractUbiquitous devices comprising several resource-constrained sensors and actuators while having the long desired Internet connectivity, are becoming part of many solutions that seek to enhance user’s environment smartness and quality of living. ...
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- Article
Enhancing EMV Online PIN Verification
TRUSTCOM '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA - Volume 01•August 2015, pp 808-817EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) is a globally accepted standard for chip card-based payment transactions, which benefits from the intrinsic security characteristics of chip cards. The EMV specification is relatively flexible and can be deployed in both ...
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Enhancing EMV Online PIN Verification
TRUSTCOM '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA - Volume 01•August 2015, pp 808-817• https://doi.org/10.1109/Trustcom.2015.451EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) is a globally accepted standard for chip card-based payment transactions, which benefits from the intrinsic security characteristics of chip cards. The EMV specification is relatively flexible and can be deployed in both ...
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Policy-Based Access Control for Body Sensor Networks
- Charalampos Manifavas
Dept. of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - Konstantinos Fysarakis
Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Dept. of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Kagiambakis
Dept. of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - Ioannis Papaefstathiou
Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practice. Securing the Internet of Things - Volume 8501•July 2014, pp 150-159• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43826-8_11Sensor nodes and actuators are becoming ubiquitous and research efforts focus on addressing the various issues stemming from resources constraints and other intrinsic characteristics typically associated with such devices and their applications. In the ...
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DSAPE Dynamic Security Awareness Program Evaluation
- Charalampos Manifavas
Dept. of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - Konstantinos Fysarakis
Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Dept. of Computer & Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and, Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - George Hatzivasilis
Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust - Volume 8533•June 2014, pp 258-269• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07620-1_23This paper addresses the importance of continuously evaluating an organization's awareness program and provides guidelines that will help organizations assess their efforts, extending the authors' work in [1]. The proposed methodology evaluates an ...
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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
IPsec over IEEE 802.15.4 for low power and lossy networks
- Konstantinos Rantos
Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Kavala, Greece
, - Alexandros Papanikolaou
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
, - Charalampos Manifavas
Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
MobiWac '13: Proceedings of the 11th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access•November 2013, pp 59-64• https://doi.org/10.1145/2508222.2508240The wide deployment of low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) connected to the Internet has raised many security concerns regarding the protection of data they handle and communicate. Such networks now face all sorts of security threats identified in ...
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Lightweight Cryptography for Embedded Systems A Comparative Analysis
- Charalampos Manifavas
Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
, - George Hatzivasilis
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Fysarakis
Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Industrial Informatics, Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Kavala, Greece
Revised Selected Papers of the 8th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security - Volume 8247•September 2013, pp 333-349• https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54568-9_21As computing becomes pervasive, embedded systems are deployed in a wide range of domains, including industrial systems, critical infrastructures, private and public spaces as well as portable and wearable applications. An integral part of the ...
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- Charalampos Manifavas
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How Effective Is Your Security Awareness Program? An Evaluation Methodology
- Konstantinos Rantos
Department of Industrial Informatics, Kavala Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
, - Konstantinos Fysarakis
Department of Applied Informatics & Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Crete, Greece
, - Charalampos Manifavas
Department of Applied Informatics & Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Crete, Greece
Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, Volume 21, Issue 6•2012, pp 328-345 • https://doi.org/10.1080/19393555.2012.747234Security awareness is an important element of every security infrastructure, especially since the human factor often proves to be the weakest link. Companies and organizations have developed programs that seek to promote security and enhance users' ...
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- Article
Digital signatures: how close is Europe to truly interoperable solutions?
- Konstantinos Rantos
Kavala Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece
CMS'11: Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 international conference on Communications and multimedia security•October 2011, pp 155-162Digital signatures have been a hot topic in the e-government era as a key enabler for e-services provided to business and citizens, and secure exchange of e-documents. When this exchange crosses the borders of closed systems or EU's Member States, ...
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Promoting e-Gov Services: e-Document Interoperability across EU
PCI '11: Proceedings of the 2011 15th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics•September 2011, pp 304-308• https://doi.org/10.1109/PCI.2011.62The wide deployment of cross-border e-government services in EU has highlighted the interoperability problems caused by different solutions adopted by Member States. This paper focuses on one of those areas that form the interoperability puzzle: signed ...
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Matching key recovery mechanisms to business requirements
- Konstantinos Rantos
Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
, - Chris J. Mitchell
Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
Computers and Security, Volume 24, Issue 3•May, 2005, pp 232-245 • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2004.08.010This paper addresses the business needs for key recovery as a countermeasure to the threat of losing potentially valuable information. Several requirements essential for a sound key recovery mechanism are described, and the applicability of two main ...
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- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
- Q. Why can’t I find my most recent publication in my ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner