Perspectives on Cyber Security: Managerial perspectives on cyber security and the role of end user awareness

Towards a cyber approach for large organisations

Participation in cyberspace is of key importance for large organisations (and the functioning of our society), but to participate responsibly a comprehensive cyber approach is needed. Cyberspace is a dynamic and complex environment due to the hyper-connectedness and therefore such an approach should aim for cyber resilience to cope with this...

Anomaly Detection Beyond the Research Setting: An exploration of the use of statistics and machine learning to detect cyber attacks

In this work we approach the problem of deploying anomaly detection techniques for detecting cyber attacks in an organisational environment. Anomaly detection has been an active research area for almost three decades with promising results. However, few such systems have been successfully im- plemented in an operational environment for improving...

Attack pattern ontology: A common language for attack information sharing between organizations

Cyber attack nowadays is increasingly being reported. Defenders need a good understanding of attacker’s perspective in order to accurately anticipate threats and effectively mitigate attacks. This understanding can be obtained through sharing attack pattern. However, in the existing researches the consideration about information sharing is not...

Less is more: A theory driven research project to determine what collaboration design best supports the sharing of pragmatic, cyber security related information between organisations

In the last few years the amount of witnessed accidents (such as stolen information) following from cyber-attacks has increased. It is considered that organisations cannot keep up with adversaries by themselves anymore. For that reason organisations would have to collaborate with each other, by sharing information, to improve each other’s...

Online Banking Fraud Mitigation: A Quantitative Study for Extracting Intelligence about Target Selection by Cybercriminals from Zeus Financial Malware Files