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A Closer Look on Challenges and Security Risks of Voice Over Internet Protocol Infrastructures

  • Omari, Ahmed H. Al;Alsariera, Yazan A.;Alhadawi, Hussam S.;Albawaleez, Mahmoud A.;Alkhliwi, Sultan S.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.175-184
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    • 2022
  • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has grown in popularity as a low-cost, flexible alternative to the classic public switched telephone network (PSTN) that offers advanced digital features. However, additional security vulnerabilities are introduced by the VoIP system's flexibility and the convergence of voice and data networks. These additional challenges add to the normal security challenges that a VoIP system's underlying IP data network infrastructure confront. As a result, the VoIP network adds to the complexity of the security assurance task faced by businesses that use this technology. It's time to start documenting the many security risks that a VoIP infrastructure can face, as well as analyzing the difficulties and solutions that could help guide future efforts in research & development. We discuss and investigate the challenges and requirements of VoIP security in this research. Following a thorough examination of security challenges, we concentrate on VoIP system threats, which are critical for present and future VoIP deployments. Then, towards the end of this paper, some future study directions are suggested. This article intends to guide future scholars and provide them with useful guidance.

Designing Flexible Packets for Multi-Satellite Data Transmission in a Physical Network Separation Environment

  • Baek, Hyun Chul;Lee, Sang Jeong
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.26-35
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    • 2020
  • The national satellite operation network, which supports multiple satellites, was designated as a Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) in 2017. The network was designed independently from the control network and the information network to enhance physical security. Planning is underway to establish a bidirectional data interface between networks. The data transmission system allows data flow only to the physical layer and the data link layer; hence, only one file can be transferred at any one time. This means that when large amounts of data are being transmitted, no other data can be sent simultaneously in urgent situations. Thus, this paper discusses the design of flexible packets for the transmission of data between networks in an environment where physical security has been enhanced through network separation and based on this, presents a method for transmitting data effectively.

Risk Analysis and Monitoring Model of Urban SCADA Network Infrastructure (도시 기반시설 SCADA 망의 위험분석 및 모니터링 모델 연구)

  • Kim, Wan-Jib;Lee, Kyung-Ho;Kim, Huy-Kang;Youm, Heung-Youl
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.67-81
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    • 2011
  • In recently years, there are cyber-weapon aim to national infrastructure such as 'stuxnet'. Security experts of the world are paying attention to this phenomenon. The networks which controls traffic, subway, waterworks of the city are safe from threats such as computer virus, malware, because the networks were built on closed-networks. However, it's about time to develop countermeasure for the cyber-weapon. In this paper, we review status-quo of the control systems for metropolitan infrastructure and analyze the risk of industrial control system in SCADA(Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) network. Finally, we propose a security model for control systems of metropolitan infrastructure.

A study on an Infrastructure for Virus Protection (바이러스 차단 인프라 구조에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Si-Choon;Kim, Su-Hee;J. Kim, Kui-Nam
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2005
  • Virus protection infrastructure managementis network infrastructure management, traffic route management, virus protection zone expansion, and virus protection management for gateway area. This research paper provides a diagnosis of characteristics and weaknesses of the structure of existing virus protection infrastructure, and recommends an improved multi-level virus protection infrastructure as a measure for correcting these weaknesses. Improved virus protection infrastructure filters unnecessary mail at the gateway stage to reduce the load on server. As a result, numberof transmission accumulation decreases due to the reduction in the CPU load on the Virus wall and increase in virus treatment rate.

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Significance and Research Challenges of Defensive and Offensive Cybersecurity in Smart Grid

  • Hana, Mujlid
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2022
  • Smart grid (SG) software platforms and communication networks that run and manage the entire grid are increasingly concerned about cyber security. Characteristics of the smart grid networks, including heterogeneity, time restrictions, bandwidth, scalability, and other factors make it difficult to secure. The age-old strategy of "building bigger walls" is no longer sufficient given the rise in the quantity and size of cyberattacks as well as the sophisticated methods threat actor uses to hide their actions. Cyber security experts utilize technologies and procedures to defend IT systems and data from intruders. The primary objective of every organization's cybersecurity team is to safeguard data and information technology (IT) infrastructure. Consequently, further research is required to create guidelines and methods that are compatible with smart grid security. In this study, we have discussed objectives of of smart grid security, challenges of smart grid security, defensive cybersecurity techniques, offensive cybersecurity techniques and open research challenges of cybersecurity.

A Study on the Realization of Diskless and Stateless Security Policy Based High-speed Synchronous Network Infrastructure (Diskless와 Stateless 보안정책 기반의 고속화 동기 네트워크 인프라 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Woo-Seok;Jun, Moon-Seog
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.673-681
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    • 2011
  • Among the network information services combined with a number of security technologies and required security policies, Infrastructure as a Service, a hardware plat-form service of Cloud Computing, has been provided since 2011. It is more or less similar to the existing central concentration method services, in terms of the specifications and technical aspects for given hardware category, but it is entirely different from them in that it overcomes the spatial limitations of specific network and targets the public network. Information security technology has also been prospering so that it could ensure the stability of offered hardware plat-forms. As currently supported hardware, Internet Data Center has been provided by virtualizing the previously offered servers and discs (backup discs), but the hardware plat-forms offered are somewhat limited. Meanwhile, the areas of security fields for offered services are confined to the center or include the TCP/IP-based SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for the public network connected with clients, which shows that microscopic access security policies have been used. Therefore, this study was aimed to provide a realistic security mechanism for realizing defense policy, by expanding service areas into security devices and suggesting Diskless and Stateless security policy based high-speed synchronous network infrastructure.

Improvements of Information Security Level in Electronic Financial Infrastructure(By Analyzing Information Security Management Level) (전자금융기반시설 정보보호 수준강화 방안 (정보보호 관리수준 분석을 통한))

  • Park, Keun-dug;Youm, Heung-youl
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.1605-1618
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    • 2016
  • In recent years, security incidents - such as personal information leakage, homepage hacking, DDoS and etc. - targeting finance companies(banks, securities companies, credit card companies, insurance companies and etc.) have increased steadily. In this paper, we analyze problems of information security management level in the existing electronic financial infrastructure from perspective of compliance and information security certification system and propose improvements to enable sustainable high level of information security activities under a comprehensive management system for the financial sector characteristics using ISMS, SECU-STAR and CNIVAM system.

Development of a heuristic algorithm for the effective design of military information networks (국방 전산망의 효율적인 설계를 위한 휴리스틱 알고리듬 개발)

  • U, Hun-Sik;Yoon, Dong-Won
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.1
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    • pp.345-360
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    • 2003
  • To build an information oriented armed forces, the Korean military telecommunication networks adopt TCP/IP standard communication infrastructures based on ATM packet switched networks. Utilizing this network infrastructure, the Korean armed forces also applies to the areas of battleship management for efficient operation command controls and resource management for efficient resource allocations. In this military communication networks, it is essential to determine the least cost network topology under equal performance and reliability constraints. Basically, this type of communication network design problem is known in the literature as an NP Hard problem. As the number of network node increases, it is very hard to obtain an optimal solution in polynomial time. Therefore, it is reasonable to use a heuristic algorithm which provides a good solution with minimal computational efforts. In this study, we developed a simulated annealing based heuristic algorithm which can be utilized for the design of military communication networks. The developed algorithm provides a good packet switched network topology which satisfies a given set of performance and reliability constraints with reasonable computation times.

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Enhancing Security Gaps in Smart Grid Communication

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Jeong, Heon;Moon, Kyung-Il
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.7-10
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    • 2014
  • In order to develop smart grid communications infrastructure, a high level of interconnectivity and reliability among its nodes is required. Sensors, advanced metering devices, electrical appliances, and monitoring devices, just to mention a few, will be highly interconnected allowing for the seamless flow of data. Reliability and security in this flow of data between nodes is crucial due to the low latency and cyber-attacks resilience requirements of the Smart Grid. In particular, Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Fuzzy Logic, Bayesian Inference, Neural Networks, and other methods can be employed to enhance the security gaps in conventional IDSs. A distributed FPGA-based network with adaptive and cooperative capabilities can be used to study several security and communication aspects of the smart grid infrastructure both from the attackers and defensive point of view. In this paper, the vital issue of security in the smart grid is discussed, along with a possible approach to achieve this by employing FPGA based Radial Basis Function (RBF) network intrusion.

Securing SCADA Systems: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Reconnaissance Attacks

  • Ezaz Aldahasi;Talal Alkharobi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2023
  • Ensuring the security of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is paramount to safeguarding the reliability and safety of critical infrastructure. This paper addresses the significant threat posed by reconnaissance attacks on SCADA/ICS networks and presents an innovative methodology for enhancing their protection. The proposed approach strategically employs imbalance dataset handling techniques, ensemble methods, and feature engineering to enhance the resilience of SCADA/ICS systems. Experimentation and analysis demonstrate the compelling efficacy of our strategy, as evidenced by excellent model performance characterized by good precision, recall, and a commendably low false negative (FN). The practical utility of our approach is underscored through the evaluation of real-world SCADA/ICS datasets, showcasing superior performance compared to existing methods in a comparative analysis. Moreover, the integration of feature augmentation is revealed to significantly enhance detection capabilities. This research contributes to advancing the security posture of SCADA/ICS environments, addressing a critical imperative in the face of evolving cyber threats.