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Cloudy with a Chance of Breach: Forecasting Cyber Security Incidents

In this study we characterize the extent to which cyber security incidents, such as those referenced by Verizon in its annual Data Breach Investigations Reports (DBIR), can be predicted based on externally observable properties of an organization’s network. We seek to proactively forecast an organization’s breaches and to do so without cooperation of the organization itself. To accomplish this ...

Cloudy with a Chance of Precipitation: Novel in Vitro

AAPS held its Annual Meeting and Exposition at the Convention Center in San Diego, California, during the week of November 2–6, 2014. The meeting is a premier gathering of pharmaceutical scientists from around the world and works to address the needs of the attendees, including members of over 40 Focus Groups in nine Sections, or scientific disciplines, including two focused on dissolution test...

Cloudy with a Chance of Poaching: Adversary Behavior Modeling and Forecasting with Real-World Poaching Data

Wildlife conservation organizations task rangers to deter and capture wildlife poachers. Since rangers are responsible for patrolling vast areas, adversary behavior modeling can help more effectively direct future patrols. In this innovative application track paper, we present an adversary behavior modeling system, INTERCEPT (INTERpretable Classification Ensemble to Protect Threatened species),...

Cloudy with a Chance of Usage? - Towards a Model of Cloud Computing Adoption in German SME

While Cloud Computing has become an important topic in research and practice in recent years and widely adopted by consumers and companies around the globe, especially German small and mediumsized enterprises (SME) are reluctant with the respect to using cloud services. Scientific literature on cloud adoption in German SMEs is still scarce, in particular with respect to the use of PaaS solution...

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