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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.

Research on Cyber Kill Chain Models for Offensive Cyber Operations (공세적 사이버 작전을 위한 사이버 킬체인 모델 연구)

  • Seong Bae Jo;Wan Ju Kim;Jae Sung Lim
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2023
  • Cyberspace has emerged as the fifth domain of warfare, alongside land, sea, air, and space. It has become a crucial focus for offensive and defensive military operations. Governments worldwide have demonstrated their intent to engage in offensive cyber operations within this domain. This paper proposes an innovative offensive cyber kill chain model that integrates the existing defensive strategy, the cyber kill chain model, with the joint air tasking order (ATO) mission execution cycle and joint target processing procedure. By combining physical and cyber operations within a joint framework, this model aims to enhance national cyber operations capabilities at a strategic level. The integration of these elements seeks to address the evolving challenges in cyberspace and contribute to more effective jointness in conducting cyber operations.

A Simulation Model for the Response of Information-Warfare based on Computer Forensics (정보전대응을 위한 컴퓨터 포렌식스 기반 모의실험1))

  • Choe, Yong-Rak;Ko, Byong-Su;Park, Meong-Chan
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.1
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    • pp.391-421
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    • 2003
  • While the social activities using Internet become generalized, the side effect of the information security violation is increasing steadily and threaten the countries which is not ready to prevent from offensive penetration such as the Information-fighter or Cyber-military. In this paper, we define the concept and characteristics of the modern Information-Warfare and analyze various kinds of threatened elements and also examine the recent trend in other countries. And introducing Computer Forensics raised recently for the confrontation against the security violation in the future, we will show the developing strategies and the necessity in order to response cyber attacks. These developing strategies can be used to ensure and re-trace the technical evidence for the security violation and to achieve the disaster relief effectively. So we hope that can apply them to the actual preparation through developing cyber trial test of the defense and attack for the Information-Warfare.

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Honeypot game-theoretical model for defending against APT attacks with limited resources in cyber-physical systems

  • Tian, Wen;Ji, Xiao-Peng;Liu, Weiwei;Zhai, Jiangtao;Liu, Guangjie;Dai, Yuewei;Huang, Shuhua
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.585-598
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    • 2019
  • A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a new mechanism controlled or monitored by computer algorithms that intertwine physical and software components. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) represent stealthy, powerful, and well-funded attacks against CPSs; they integrate physical processes and have recently become an active research area. Existing offensive and defensive processes for APTs in CPSs are usually modeled by incomplete information game theory. However, honeypots, which are effective security vulnerability defense mechanisms, have not been widely adopted or modeled for defense against APT attacks in CPSs. In this study, a honeypot game-theoretical model considering both low- and high-interaction modes is used to investigate the offensive and defensive interactions, so that defensive strategies against APTs can be optimized. In this model, human analysis and honeypot allocation costs are introduced as limited resources. We prove the existence of Bayesian Nash equilibrium strategies and obtain the optimal defensive strategy under limited resources. Finally, numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method is effective in obtaining the optimal defensive effect.

An Attack Model Based on Software Cruise for Information Warfare (정보전을 위한 소프트웨어 순항 기반 공격 모델)

  • Ryu Ho-Yeon;Nam Young-Ho
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.49-60
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    • 2004
  • Information Warfare(IW), a new aspect of war, is the field centralized the concern and research in the information security and national security, Both the defense and the offensive are important in the next generation IW, and so we need to do the various research to secure the network and system for gaining the superiority of IW. This paper proposes a model for IW based on software cruise to prepare the IW that is changing the offensive aspect. Software cruise is defined as a behavior of computer programs that travel toward specific destination from a source through the network. The proposed model have the cruise property and uses the cybermap to cruise toward the destination chosen in advance. Also, while self-movement, the model can function the predefined task.

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A Study on the Patterns of New Terrorism through the Comparative Analysis with Conventional Terrorism (고전적 테러리즘과의 비교 분석을 통한 뉴 테러리즘 양상에 대한 연구)

  • Song, Jae-Hyeong
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.1
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    • pp.113-154
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    • 2003
  • We can feel the fear through the reports of outbreaking centers of terror. Also, we noticed through "the 9.11 terror" that there exists no safety zone from terrorism. However, we should question ourselves whether we are relaxing attention or ceasing anxiety too much in the perimeter, as in the peninsula of Korea. Through "the 9.11 terror", the vulnerability of the United State's homeland security has been exposed, giving a serious damage to the national pride. President Bush started the war against terror to strengthen global joints of anti-terrorism, identify terrorists and contribute to the global peace, adopting offensive realism including preemptive attack concept which means to remove the threat preemptively. In today's reality of international politics, where the inhuman, indiscriminate, and anti-civilizational international terror became greater, extending to the stage of war, the international societies' agony and focus lies on how to banish it. The 9.11 terrorism, which is a new form of terrorism, is being distinguished from conventional terrorism into new terrorism. New terrorism is a new form of terrorism meaning that you do not know the enemy, the goal does not exist and they conscientiously use the weapons of mass destruction. This paper is a work meant to help understanding new terrorism, the new form, by a comparative analysis with the conventional terrorism. Therefore the origin, concept and general characteristics new terrorism is picked out and the representative forms of it, which are suicide bombing, cyber, biochemical and nuclear terrorism, are analyzed in detail in theoretical manner.

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A study on national cybersecurity policy agenda in Korea using national cyber capability assessment model (국가 사이버 역량평가 모델을 활용한 국내 사이버안보 정책 의제 도출 연구)

  • Song, Minkyoung;Bae, Sunha;Kim, So-Jeong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 2021
  • The National Cyber Capability Assessment(NCCA) could be used as meaningful information for improving national cyber security policy because it provides information on the elements necessary for strengthening national cyber capabilities and the level of each country. However, there were few studies on improving cyber capabilities using the NCCA result in Korea. Therefore, we analyzed the result of National Cyber Power Index(NCPI) conducted by Belfer Center of Harvard Univ. by applying modified-IPA method to derive cybersecurity policy agendas for Korea. As a result, the need to set agendas on surveillance and offensive cyber capability and improve the effectiveness of policy implementation for intelligence and defense was drawn. Moreover, we suggested need for in-depth study of each policy agenda deduced from preceding research data as a future tasks. And it is expected to increase practical use of NCCA for domestic policy analysis by developing and using our own NCCA model which considered analysis framework proposed in this study.

Cyberbullying Detection in Twitter Using Sentiment Analysis

  • Theng, Chong Poh;Othman, Nur Fadzilah;Abdullah, Raihana Syahirah;Anawar, Syarulnaziah;Ayop, Zakiah;Ramli, Sofia Najwa
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • Cyberbullying has become a severe issue and brought a powerful impact on the cyber world. Due to the low cost and fast spreading of news, social media has become a tool that helps spread insult, offensive, and hate messages or opinions in a community. Detecting cyberbullying from social media is an intriguing research topic because it is vital for law enforcement agencies to witness how social media broadcast hate messages. Twitter is one of the famous social media and a platform for users to tell stories, give views, express feelings, and even spread news, whether true or false. Hence, it becomes an excellent resource for sentiment analysis. This paper aims to detect cyberbully threats based on Naïve Bayes, support vector machine (SVM), and k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) classifier model. Sentiment analysis will be applied based on people's opinions on social media and distribute polarity to them as positive, neutral, or negative. The accuracy for each classifier will be evaluated.

Data Security on Cloud by Cryptographic Methods Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Gadde, Swetha;Amutharaj, J.;Usha, S.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.342-347
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    • 2022
  • On Cloud, the important data of the user that is protected on remote servers can be accessed via internet. Due to rapid shift in technology nowadays, there is a swift increase in the confidential and pivotal data. This comes up with the requirement of data security of the user's data. Data is of different type and each need discrete degree of conservation. The idea of data security data science permits building the computing procedure more applicable and bright as compared to conventional ones in the estate of data security. Our focus with this paper is to enhance the safety of data on the cloud and also to obliterate the problems associated with the data security. In our suggested plan, some basic solutions of security like cryptographic techniques and authentication are allotted in cloud computing world. This paper put your heads together about how machine learning techniques is used in data security in both offensive and defensive ventures, including analysis on cyber-attacks focused at machine learning techniques. The machine learning technique is based on the Supervised, UnSupervised, Semi-Supervised and Reinforcement Learning. Although numerous research has been done on this topic but in reference with the future scope a lot more investigation is required to be carried out in this field to determine how the data can be secured more firmly on cloud in respect with the Machine Learning Techniques and cryptographic methods.

Real-time hacking, detection and tracking ICT Convergence Security Solutions Test and Evaluation (실시간 해킹, 탐지 및 추적관리 ICT 융합 보안 솔루션 시험평가)

  • Kim, Seung-Bum;Yang, Hae-Sool
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.235-246
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    • 2015
  • Understanding the various unspecified hacking and repeated cyber DDoS attacks, finally was able to find a solution in the methods of attacks. Freely researching approach that combines the attacker and defender, offensive and defensive techniques can be called a challenge to discover the potential in whimsy. In this paper we test and evaluate "KWON-GA", global white hackers team has made by many years of experiences in infiltration and diagnosis under guise of offence is the best defence. And it is knowledge information ICT Convergence security solution which is developed for the purpose of defence, it provide customization policy that can be fit to customer's system environment with needed techniques and it is processed with unique proprietary technology so that it's not possible to scan. And even if it has leaked internally it's impossible to analyze so hackers can't analyze vulnerability, also it can't be abused as hacking tools.