The Vulnerability Ecosystem: Exploring vulnerability discovery and the resulting cyberattacks through agent-based modelling

Software vulnerabilities are a major enabler for cyberattacks, and are therefore responsible for a sizeable portion of the risk for large organisations in cyberspace. Little research has been done on the dynamics underlying this risk. The goal of this paper is to find how organisations and software vendors can influence the overall risk level as...

Parallel Dissector: Parallel Processing of DDoS Data

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) leverages the power of multiple servers to disrupt the operations of a victim service. Due to the financial risks posed by downtimes on critical online infrastructure, DDoS is among the top threats in the cybersecurity landscape.<br/><br/>In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of previously launched...