Institutt for informasjonssikkerhet og kommunikasjonsteknologi
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Risk Quantification to Measure Security Performance - SecurityScore Assessment Methodology
(Master thesis, 2019)With the digitalisation of information, the security aspect of it has become more important than ever before. It was reported in an independent study that 7 out of 10 attacks on information assets of an organisation are ... -
Modelling Adversarial Flow in Software-Defined Industrial Control Networks Using a Queueing Network Model
(Chapter, 2020)In recent years, software defined networking (SDN) has been proposed for enhancing the security of industrial control networks. However, its ability to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) requirements of such networks ... -
Data-Driven and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approach for Modelling and Analyzing Healthcare Security Practice: A Systematic Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Data breaches in healthcare continue to grow exponentially, calling for a rethinking into better approaches of security measures towards mitigating the menace. Traditional approaches including technological measures, have ... -
MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS Supporting the Design of Reactive Systems with Augmented Modeling and Verification Mechanisms
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:287, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis motivates the need for the Reactive Blocks approach for model-driven Complex Systems Engineering (CSE). With the booming of the Internet economy and development of the Internet of Things (IoT), interconnected ... -
Deep learning based Sequential model for malware analysis using Windows exe API Calls
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Malware development has seen diversity in terms of architecture and features. This advancement in the competencies of malware poses a severe threat and opens new research dimensions in malware detection. This study is ... -
Cluster Detection Mechanisms for Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Systematic Review and Framework Development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: The time lag in detecting disease outbreaks remains a threat to global health security. The advancement of technology has made health-related data and other indicator activities easily accessible for syndromic ... -
Remedy of Mixed Initiative Conflicts in Model-based System Engineering
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)SPACE is a technique for model-driven engineering of reactive distributedsystems. One of the strengths of its tool-set Arctis is that the system engineercan formally analyze the models for design errors such that these can ... -
Modeling Interdependencies with Complex Network Theory in a Combined Electrical Power and ICT System
(Chapter, 2020)The extensive integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in the future electrical power system transforms the power system to a cyber physical system (CPS), making it a system-of-systems. This new system ... -
An Empirical Study of CERT Capacity in the North Sea
(Chapter, 2020)This paper documents the results of an empirical study of cyber incident response readiness in the Norwegian petroleum industry. The study addressed the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) capacity among various actors ... -
A network design algorithm for multicast communication architectures in smart transmission grids
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In future smart transmission grids, there are distributed applications that will benefit from the deployment of Internet Protocol (IP) multicast technology for communication. Sharing of Routable-Sample Values (R-SV) and ... -
Detection of Running Malware Before it Becomes Malicious
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)As more vulnerabilities are being discovered every year [17], malware constantly evolves forcing improvements and updates of security and malware detection mechanisms. Malware is used directly on the attacked systems, thus ... -
On the Resilience of the NFV-MANO: An Availability Model of a Cloud-native Architecture
(Chapter, 2020)With Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the management and orchestration of network services require a new set of functionalities to be added on top of legacy models of operation. Due to the introduction of the ... -
Legal Issues Related to Cyber Threat Information Sharing Among Private Entities for Critical Infrastructure Protection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The menace of cyber attacks has become a concern for both the public and private sectors. Several approaches have been proposed to tackle the challenge, but an approach that has received widespread acceptance among cyber ... -
Adversary Model for Attacks Against IEC 61850 Real-Time Communication Protocols
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Adversarial models are well-established for cryptographic protocols, but distributed real-time protocols have requirements that these abstractions are not intended to cover. The IEEE/IEC 61850 standard for communication ... -
Communication Networks for Protection Systems in Smart Transmission Grids
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)The advances in Smart electric Transmission Grids (STG) have led to new developments in wide-area protection, control and state estimation applications. Protection systems in utility grids are particularly crucial in ... -
Secure channels and termination: The last word on TLS
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Secure channels are one of the most pivotal building blocks of cryptography today. Internet connections, secure messaging, protected IoT data, etc., all rely upon the security of the underlying channel. In this work we ... -
Towards protected VNFs for multi-operator service delivery
(Chapter, 2019)Value-added 5G verticals are foreseen to be delivered as a service chain over multiple network operators with extensive outsourcing of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). In this short paper we introduce the initial design ... -
Evidential Reasoning for Forensic Readiness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)To learn from the past, we analyse 1,088 "computer as a target" judgements for evidential reasoning by extracting four case elements: decision, intent, fact, and evidence. Analysing the decision element is essential for ... -
Er Bug Bounty Programmer en Bærekraftig Behandling for Sikkerhetsmangler?
(Master thesis, 2020)I en verden hvor hackere tar datasystemer som gisler i bytte mot løsepenger, og myndighetene truer med bøter hvis personinformasjon kommer på avveie, blir det stadig viktigere å sikre datasystemene sine mot trusler. Flere ... -
Exploring the Relation Between Mobile Network Type and Mobile Application Usage
(Master thesis, 2019)I dagens samfunn er bruk av smarttelefoner og applikasjoner en stor del av folks daglige liv. Utviklingen gjennom de siste årene med en stor økning i utbredelsen av både smarttelefoner og antall applikasjoner, har ført til ...
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