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Novel Intrusion Detection Mechanism with Low Overhead for SCADA Systems

Book Chapter

Maglaras, L., Janicke, H., Jiang, J., & Crampton, A. (2019)

Novel Intrusion Detection Mechanism with Low Overhead for SCADA Systems. In Securing the Internet of Things: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (299-318). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9866-4.ch017

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are a critical part of modern national critical infrastructure (CI) systems. Due to the rapid increase of sophisticate...

DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services

Journal Article

Ferrag, M. A., & Maglaras, L. (2019)

DeliveryCoin: An IDS and Blockchain-Based Delivery Framework for Drone-Delivered Services. Computers, 8(3), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers8030058

In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection system (IDS) and Blockchain-based delivery framework, called DeliveryCoin, for drone-delivered services. The DeliveryCoin fram...

Blockchain and Random Subspace Learning-Based IDS for SDN-Enabled Industrial IoT Security

Journal Article

Derhab, A., Guerroumi, M., Gumaei, A., Maglaras, L., Ferrag, M. A., Mukherjee, M., & Khan, F. A. (2019)

Blockchain and Random Subspace Learning-Based IDS for SDN-Enabled Industrial IoT Security. Sensors, 19(14), Article 3119. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19143119

The industrial control systems are facing an increasing number of sophisticated cyber attacks that can have very dangerous consequences on humans and their environments. In or...

DeepCoin: A Novel Deep Learning and Blockchain-Based Energy Exchange Framework for Smart Grids

Journal Article

Ferrag, M. A., & Maglaras, L. (2020)

DeepCoin: A Novel Deep Learning and Blockchain-Based Energy Exchange Framework for Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 67(4), 1285-1297. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2019.2922936

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning and blockchain-based energy framework for smart grids, entitled DeepCoin. The DeepCoin framework uses two schemes, a blockchain...

Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices Using Biofeatures: Recent Advances and Future Trends

Journal Article

Ferrag, M. A., Maglaras, L., & Derhab, A. (2019)

Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices Using Biofeatures: Recent Advances and Future Trends. Security and Communication Networks, 2019, Article 5452870. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5452870

Biofeatures are fast becoming a key tool to authenticate the IoT devices; in this sense, the purpose of this investigation is to summarise the factors that hinder biometrics m...

Evaluating information security core human error causes (IS-CHEC) technique in public sector and comparison with the private sector

Journal Article

Evans, M., He, Y., Maglaras, L., Yevseyeva, I., & Janicke, H. (2019)

Evaluating information security core human error causes (IS-CHEC) technique in public sector and comparison with the private sector. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 127, 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.04.019

Background The number of reported public sector information security incidents has significantly increased recently including 22% related to the UK health sector. Over two thi...

Protecting Civilians from Cyber Warfare with Cyber Buffer Zones

Journal Article

Robinson, M., Maglaras, L., Jones, K., & Janicke, H. (2019)

Protecting Civilians from Cyber Warfare with Cyber Buffer Zones. International Journal of Smart Security Technologies, 6(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsst.2019010103

Cyber peacekeeping has quickly risen in prominence as a viable way to regulate the impact cyber warfare has upon civilian security. In this article, the concept of a cyber buf...

SCIPS: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Cyber Situational Awareness in Industrial Control System

Book Chapter

Cook, A., Smith, R., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (2018)

SCIPS: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Cyber Situational Awareness in Industrial Control System. In Cyber Security and Threats: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (1168-1183). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5634-3.ch057

The cyber threat to industrial control systems is an acknowledged security issue, but a qualified dataset to quantify the risk remains largely unavailable. Senior executives o...

A Novel Method for Calculating Customer Reviews Ratings

Book Chapter

Vourgidis, I. S., Carter, J., Maglaras, L., Janicke, H., Folia, Z., & Fragkou, P. (2018)

A Novel Method for Calculating Customer Reviews Ratings. In A. Elçi (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Perspectives on Web-Based Systems (460-478). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5384-7.ch020

The number of consumers consulting online reviews in order to purchase a product or service, keeps growing. In addition to that, consumers can add an online review in order to...

CYRAN: A Hybrid Cyber Range for Testing Security on ICS/SCADA Systems

Book Chapter

Hallaq, B., Nicholson, A., Smith, R., Maglaras, L., Janicke, H., & Jones, K. (2018)

CYRAN: A Hybrid Cyber Range for Testing Security on ICS/SCADA Systems. In Cyber Security and Threats: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (622-637). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5634-3.ch033

Cyber Security of ICS/SCADA systems is a major aspect of current research focus. Cyber Ranges and Test-beds can serve as means of vulnerability and threat analysis of real SCA...