A Basic Set of Mental Models for Understanding and Dealing with the CyberSecurity Challenges of Today

For most people, cybersecurity is a difficult notion to grasp. Traditionally, cybersecurity has been considered a technical challenge, and still many specialists understand it as information security, with the notions of confidentiality, integrity, and availability as its foundation. Although many have searched for different and broader...

Grasping cybersecurity: A set of essential mental models

For most people, cybersecurity is a hard to grasp notion. Traditionally, cybersecurity has been considered as a technical challenge and still many specialists view it equivalent with information security, with the notions of confidentiality, integrity and availability as starting points of thinking. And although others searched for a broader...

Security Evaluation of the Cyber Networks under Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) pose a grave threat to cyberspace, because they deactivate all the conventional cyber defense mechanisms. This paper addresses the issue of evaluating the security of the cyber networks under APTs. For this purpose, a dynamic model capturing the APT-based cyber-attack-defense processes is proposed....