Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2020-01-25
影响因子: 6.125
期刊难度:
CCF分类: C类
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 计算机:理论方法 - 1区
Overview
In recent years, novel security threats arose, be it due to sophisticated malware obfuscation, anti-forensics techniques, advanced methods of network steganography/information hiding, newer de-anonymization methods or improved social engineering approaches. Increasingly heterogenous and inter-networked environments allow such threats to become more difficult to combat, e.g., due to the ever-broader spectrum of IoT and CPS protocols and heterogenous hardware platforms, over-complex frameworks for inter-connectivity and professionalization and funding of attackers.
Researchers aim to address these new threats with the development of novel methods (countermeasures) for defending networked systems. This is challenging and important at the same time. One of the most important advancements proposed by the community of security experts (both from industry and academia) deals with new forms of traffic normalization or active wardens, which allow to mitigate attacks, but do not offer a comprehensive protection. Moreover, novel attacks target highly specific features of the system to be exploited, for instance, vulnerabilities of the hardware and its energy consumption and network side channels.
In this perspective, this special issue desires to foster the progress in research on the development of novel defense methods in information security, especially for sophisticated and networked/hyper-connected systems, including those within the IoT and CPS.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Novel and effective countermeasures (techniques against modern threats, such as dynamic and adaptive countermeasures).
Methods that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of countermeasures over the state-of-the-art.
Surveys of defense methods in current domains of information security and surveys that systematize commonalities between different types of countermeasures.
Evaluation of existing taxonomies and proposals for new taxonomies in cyber defense.
Work that unifies terminological inconsistencies in cyber defense.
Work that reproduces existing experiments, i.e., that confirms/disproves experimental results on the defense of networked systems, and that additionally proposes experimentally verified improvements.
Work discussing methodologies to collect data and samples for modeling threats for the benefit of optimizing countermeasure design.
Work that discusses the underlying criteria for the design and evaluation for cyber defense research testbeds.
Work discussing machine-learning-based approaches for revealing unknown network-level threats.
Methodology for privacy, information sharing and collaborative work in the context of cyber defense.