Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Kowalski, Stewart James"
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A Pilot Study in Cyber Security Education Using CyberAIMs: A Simulation-Based Experiment
Zoto, Erjon; Kowalski, Stewart James; Frantz, Christopher Konstantin; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Katt, Basel (Journal article, 2018)We hardly pass any day without hearing of a new cyber attack. The recent ever-increasing occurrence of such attacks has given to researchers, practitioners and others an opportunity to raise awareness and train staff from ... -
A Socio-Technical Framework to Improve cyber security training: A Work in Progress
Østby, Grethe; Berg, Lars; Kianpour, Mazaher; Katt, Basel; Kowalski, Stewart James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this paper we discuss a work in progress to create a socio-technical system design framework for cyber security training exercises (STSD-CSTE) to support the development of cyber security training in the Norwegian Cyber ... -
A Socio-technical Systems Approach to Design and Support Systems Thinking in Cybersecurity and Risk Management Education
Zoto, Erjon; Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Cybersecurity decisions are made across a range of social, technical, economic, regulatory and political domains. There is a gap between what companies and institutions plan to do while developing their internal IS-related ... -
Advancing the concept of cybersecurity as a public good
Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Øverby, Harald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper presents an agent-based model of cybersecurity as a participatory public good. Ineffective cybersecurity measures pose serious threats and risks to the development and stability of information societies in the ... -
An Empirical Study of Security Culture in Open Source Software Communities
Wen, Shao-Fang; Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James (Chapter, 2019)Open source software (OSS) is a core part of virtually all software applications today. Due to the rapidly growing impact of OSS on society and the economy, the security aspect has attracted researchers' attention to ... -
Automatic annotation of lecture videos for multimedia driven pedagogical platforms
Imran, Ali Shariq; Alaya Cheikh, Faouzi; Kowalski, Stewart James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Today’s eLearning websites are heavily loaded with multimedia contents, which are often unstructured, unedited, unsynchronized, and lack inter-links among different multimedia components. Hyperlinking different media ... -
A case study of a municipality phishing attack measures - towards a socio-technical incident management framework
Østby, Grethe; Kowalski, Stewart James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)During the Corona-crisis, the number of data breaches and hacking increased rapidly. For some organizations it was difficult to handle both the Corona-crises and such attacks. A decision made to prevent this overload of ... -
Cyber security alerts in remote operation center
Larsen, Henrik (Master thesis, 2022)Fremtiden til maritime systemer vil måtte håndtere fjernstyrte og/eller autonome skip. Dette medfører at skip må bli overvåket og/eller fjernstyrt fra land. Dette gjør at skip blir mer tilkoblet internett og større nettverk. ... -
CyberAIMs: A tool for teaching adversarial and systems thinking
Zoto, Erjon; Kowalski, Stewart James; Katt, Basel; Frantz, Christopher; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso (Chapter, 2018)CyberAIMs stands for Cyber Agents’ Interactive Modeling and Simulation. We designed this tool in order to use it as an educational tool to teach Master students in a Cyber security course. This paper aims to describe the ... -
Cybersecurity Economics: A Multiparadigmatic Inquiry into Theory and Practice
Kianpour, Mazaher (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:357, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Digital ecosystems are continually confronted with increasing number, sophistication, and complexity of cybersecurity threats and incidents. Cybersecurity researchers have been acutely aware of this challenge for many ... -
Designing Serious Games for Cyber Ranges: A Socio-technical Approach
Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Zoto, Erjon; Frantz, Christopher; Øverby, Harald (Chapter, 2019)Appropriate training is an effective solution to tackle the evolving threat landscape and conflicts in the cyber domain and to fulfill security requirements. Serious games demonstrate pedagogic effectiveness in this field, ... -
Digital transformation of public security - developing tripleloop- learning artifacts to meet emerged information security incident response resilience and readiness challenges in public emergency organizations
Østby, Grethe (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:112, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Studies have found that resilience and response capabilities in a cyber-attack are unfamiliar to organizations, and it is also found that not only the IT-personnel, but also the crisis management group and teams need ... -
Multi-paradigmatic approaches in cybersecurity economics
Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Øverby, Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In cybersecurity economics, the selection of a particular methodology is a matter of interest and importance for the researchers. Methodologically sophisticated research forms an essential basis for understanding the ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING WITH CRISES
Østby, Grethe; Kowalski, Stewart James (Chapter, 2022)In this paper we present our ongoing attempts to introduce and develop a triple-loop learning process via a discussion exercise in a Master of Science (MSc) introduction to information security management course. Over a ... -
Preparing for cyber crisis management exercises
Østby, Grethe; Kowalski, Stewart James (Chapter, 2020)In this paper the authors discuss how to create a preparation schedule for ex-ercises (PSE) to support EXCON-teams and instructors for full-scaled com-bined crisis management and cyber-exercises. The process to create the ... -
SIEMS-CIMS integration: Secure upload of cyber-incident information to crisis information management systems
Huseby, Johann Olav Valdre (Master thesis, 2021)Per i dag er det mangel på informasjonsdeling mellom personer som jobber på operasjonelt nivå med SIEMS (Security Incident and Event Management System) og personene som trenger å ta strategiske beslutninger under en krise. ... -
Social Preferences in Decision Making Under Cybersecurity Risks and Uncertainties
Kianpour, Mazaher; Øverby, Harald; Kowalski, Stewart James; Frantz, Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The most costly cybersecurity incidents for organizations result from the failures of their third parties. This means that organizations should not only invest in their own protection and cybersecurity measures, but also ... -
A Socio-Technical Regime Transitions Model for Gerontechnology Service Design: Privacy, Information Security and Cyber Security in Focus
Kowalski, Stewart James; Østby, Grethe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this paper, we present on ongoing research to use a socio-technical privacy, information security and cybersecurity model to support the design, development and delivery processes of health care services for aging in ... -
Systematically Understanding Cybersecurity Economics: A Survey
Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Øverby, Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Insights in the field of cybersecurity economics empower decision makers to make informed decisions that improve their evaluation and management of situations that may lead to catastrophic consequences and threaten the ... -
The Norwegian Infection-Tracing App analyzed from a Socio-technical Perspective
Schumann, Rune (Master thesis, 2021)Den norske regjeringen innførte april 2020 Smittestopp-appen i to versjoner som et digitalt middel for å spore spredningen av koronainfeksjonen i den norske befolkningen. Programvarens funksjonalitet, sikkerhet og overholdelse ...